Ahmed Mohamed

Develop a procurement strategy and manage portfolio matrix

• Produce a procurement plan and strategy to reduce and contain costs; evaluate and help select suppliers; ensure excellent supplier performance; participate in contract negotiations; guarantee the highest level of ethics in every transaction; and ensure procurement policies and procedures meet internal and external compliance requirement around diversity initiatives, social responsibility goals and other such programs.
• Ensure a systematic category procurement process is developed from requirement gathering, supplier research, tendering, supplier selection, contracting and supplier performance management. Control and maintain an accurate record of supplier and contract price change requests with relevant supporting supplier documentation. Formulate cross functional levers for Supplier performance, innovation, performance improvement and sustainable growth with key stakeholder validation. Support & align development and execution of categories strategy. Drive negotiation. Work across the leadership teams to support their requirements within the global context.

Create value for the organization:

• Controlling the procurement budget and delivering year-over-year cost efficiency improvement while developing a culture of cost reduction. Ensure cost mitigation (incl. Identify and mitigate risk relating to supplier relations and price volatility about commodity forecast price trends and their impact on future activities etc.). Approve purchase orders, maintain a record of, and communicate as necessary, to key stakeholders all inflation / deflation that will impact the business.
• Negotiating with suppliers, performing risk assessments, Developing potential contracts and agreements. Reviewing existing contracts with suppliers and vendors to ensure on-going feasibility.
• Guaranteeing diversity of suppliers in terms of numbers and ensuring that supplies continue if a first-choice provider is unable to deliver the needed goods or services.

Manage supplier relationships.

• Assess and manage the supplier base to ensure flawless sourcing in terms of quality, supply chain, financial risk and contractual discipline. Deliver on all operational and strategic KPI. Regularly review cost out opportunities and ensure prices for goods and services are in line with relevant market rates, efficiently sourced, and procured in a way that creates the best value for the business.
• Keep the communication level with the Suppliers to a high level to build and maintain long-term, fruitful relationships with them. This ensures that the organization's supply chain is managed efficiently.
• Build and maintain long-term strategic relationships with internal and external suppliers. Effective relationship building with key suppliers for all raw materials, ingredients, food, stock, non-stock, non-food to meet business demands. Negotiating with suppliers, performing risk assessments, Developing potential contracts and agreements. Reviewing existing contracts with suppliers and vendors to ensure on-going feasibility.

Manage procurement projects and teams

• Lead and manage the procurement projects. This includes managing the procurement staff members and their training, hiring new talent, and optimizing their performance and workflows.
• Recruit, develop and mentor a strong team and drive succession planning for key role. Managing the procurement department staff—including hiring, training, and disciplining employees—to ensure that they are performing their jobs effectively
• Follow compliance and regulations. The Senior Manager must be well versed in regulations and compliance as well as the various laws and requirements governing the procurement process.

• Built productive relationships with stakeholders, communicated updates and sought mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Delivered tactical cost savings by negotiating advantageous terms and conditions for new contracts.
• Assessed supplier base and categorised spending based on strategic and operational requirements.
• Collaborated with technical experts in managing contracting and vetting processes for issued tenders.
• Sourced and verified quotations from suppliers before initiating purchase processes.
• Analysed and developed procurement plans with cost-effective solutions and increased purchase power.
• Supported procurement strategies, assessing objectives and implementing necessary service improvements.
• Ran due diligence checks on potential suppliers and flagged issues detected for action.
• Evaluated procurement processes and used results to improve workflows and procedures.

Premier Foods is one of the leading producers of milk and dairy products and is based in Khartoum, Sudan. The company has grown significantly during its short history (established 2002) and has expanded the product portfolio to include cheese, desserts and instant full cream milk powder. As well as a strong dairy products portfolio, Premier also produces a delicious range of fruit juice drinks and has now recently also added fruit flavoured jelly to the ever expanding range of products. http://premierfood.net/index.php

• Worked with department heads to determine requirements for procurement activities.
• Prepared project briefs and business cases to seek management approval for procurement activities.
• Facilitated project delivery by procuring raw materials and supplies.

A leading General trading company in Sharjah free zone, the main core of the business is import and exportation for different food products.