Noura Alqahtani

• Established and structured the Vendor Management and Local Content department, defining strategic direction, processes, and objectives to drive efficiency and compliance.
• Developed and executed vendor management strategies to optimize supplier performance and ensure seamless collaboration across multiple vendors.
• Negotiated contracts to achieve cost efficiencies, maintaining high service standards and compliance with local content regulations.
• Led initiatives to increase local content, ensuring alignment with national regulations and promoting local sourcing.
• Built and maintained strong relationships with local suppliers, fostering sustainable partnerships and community growth.
• Monitored vendor performance and provided actionable insights to senior leadership for data-driven decision-making.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to integrate local content strategies into procurement, legal, and operational processes.
• Managed vendor risk mitigation, ensuring compliance with local laws and industry standards.
• Led the development of training programs to raise awareness of local content regulations and best practices across the organization.

• Establish an overall Procurement Department and strategy, which identifies, prioritizes, evaluates, and manages procurement needs and opportunities.
• Controlling the procurement budget and promoting a culture of long-term saving on procurement cost.
• Performing risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements. Strategic Sourcing
• Manage the procurement operations of the Program for assigned projects, to plan effectively and proactively, coordinate, and control execution of the procurement activities on the project.
• Manage sub-contract/sub-consultant packages, scopes & lettings, procurement schedules and assist with head contract, progress claims, delay claims & external variations.
• Evaluate the existing contracts process to identify areas needing improvement and lead effort to make necessary improvements. Prepare contract change notices, monitor contractor performance, including the reporting and status of contractor and owner deliverables.

• Develop and use purchasing strategies and identify fruitful sources. Discover profitable suppliers and initiate purchasing partnerships. Negotiate with outside vendors to secure advantageous terms.

• Develop sourcing and procurement activities that support key business objectives.

• Establish and enhance supplier relationships to drive sourcing & supplier initiatives to meet or exceed product quality, service & deliver sustainable cost reductions, while reducing or mitigating risk in the Supply Chain

• Preparation of tender documentation required for the procurement of sub-contractors and sub-consultants including tender and pricing schedules, scope of works, comparative tender analysis, and recommendations.

• Oversee the processes and procedure related to contractual matters to ensure not only compliance but to also manage contract-related risk among the department and assigned areas of responsibility within the Program.

• Monitor supplier performance and prepare reports and other records relating to purchased items, cost, delivery, product performance and/or inventories.

• Ensure premises, assets and communication ways are used effectively
• Utilize logistics IT to optimize procedures
• Supervise orders and arrange stocking of raw materials and equipment to ensure they meet needs
• Communicate with suppliers, retailers, customers etc. to achieve profitable deals and mutual satisfaction
• Plan and track the shipment of final products according to customer requirements
• Keep logs and records of warehouse stock, executed orders etc.
• Prepare accurate reports for upper management.
• Create a Work guide for new colleagues

• Leading the team, subcontracting strategies, subcontract management processes, supplier development, subcontract negotiations and managing supplier performance.
• Development of supplier management and procurement capability ensuring flawless execution
• The identification and implementation of Supplier Management Best Practices, guidance on Supplier Management processes and related tools.
• People Management - staffing, employee development, coordinating employee training and supporting all programs and functional objectives.
• Manage procurement agents performing activities related to committing company resources to purchase goods and services, developing supplier strategies, development of bid packages, proposal analysis and development of contracts.
• Develop and execute plans, policies and procedures and provide input on departmental business and technical strategies, goals, objectives.
• Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports.
• Provide oversight and approval of sourcing approaches and negotiation strategies.
• Demonstrate direct experience working with a variety of subcontract types.

• Trained 3 interns on customer service and office procedures
• Organized office transition from paper invoice to quick books
• Provided administrative for the marketing department
• Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests.

(Part Time 4 Years, Full time 1 Year)

• Handing over orders by senior management to all responsible departments to follow up on implementation and monitoring.
• Create and amend general contract forms with the help and supervision of the Legal Department
• Follow-up procedures for establishing contracts with suppliers.
• Follow up on workflow P&P
• Created plans and communicated deadlines to ensure projects were completed on time.