Rachid Lakhdar

Leading and managing strategic projects within the organization, developing plans, coordinating resources, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects that align with the company's strategic goals with a focus on cost optimization.

Managed large new rig tenders from ITT, negotiations to Contract award, including multi-millions of USD in savings.

• Established the vision and master plan for the company's regional supply chain end-to-end structure across planning, sourcing, production and delivery.
• Devised and implemented short-term and long-term plans, optimizing supply chain management and improving value relating to annual expenditures while consistently improving Saudization and meeting Saudi Aramco iktva.
• Negotiated contracts, policies and deadlines with vendors.
• Support love 50 land and offshore rigs drilling for Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, Baker and KCO.
• Reduced excess inventory on SAR 142M while improving accuracy to an all-time record with minimum impact on the business profitability without stockout or excess.
• Supervised 169 staff members handling materials management, planning, purchasing and customer service duties.
• Identified, selected and maintained over 1,000 local and international suppliers.

• Managing Wireline technical resources in China, Japan, S. Korea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and PNG.
• Improved profitability to a worldwide record in a $260M business with a headcount of over 750 by reducing Total Field Cost and Increasing IBT while Improving Work force utilization, Capex utilization and reduced Financial inventory to a 4-year low.
• Improved Workforce utilization by 16%
• Reduced financial inventory by 25% and DSOH by 30% (Best improvement worldwide)
• Reduced Materials and Supply spending in line with activity
• Reduced TFC by 20%, which directly impacted achieving the highest IBT worldwide twice.
• Reduced Capex by 50%.
• Improved Operations Resources Management Service Delivery and reduced CMS from 13 down to 1.
• Improved asset utilization to a record high in China.
• Secured required assets for all operations despite short lead time, including Direct Sales.

• Managed Inventory, Warehouses, Materials and supplies, Logistics, andTrade Compliance for Schlumberger product lines in Canada land
• Drove department to achieve best financial inventory variance improvement for Artificial Lift and Kudu Calgary at 100% accuracy on $14M inventory and 99.6% accuracy on $20M inventory
• Lead strategic Distribution of MI-Swaco Drilling Fluid, Production Technologies, Wellbore Integrity and Completions, Pressure Pumping Services and negotiations for Schlumberger Canada.
• Direct Materials Supply category management team of 44.
• Reduced warehouse footprint by 25.6% and M&S stock by 41% by tactical procurement, materials management, and contract negotiations in line with the company's global supply chain improvement vision.
• Saved $2.2M annually by reorganizing the M-I Swaco Drilling Fluids distribution warehouses consistent with the Drilling rigs maps and customer assets.
• Achieved 100% compliance with all local and international Trade Requirements as per 02 Canada Borders Services Agency audits by ensuring Canadian Schlumberger companies' compliance with Canadian legal requirements and company policies.

• Successfully built and cultivated relationships with 300+ US and Canadian suppliers covering most Schlumberger product lines.
• Implemented sourcing category strategies aligned with supply market analysis.
• Prepared tenders, evaluated responses, conducted negotiations and developed strategic agreements to ensure efficient, cost-effective procurement.
• Achieved $20M+ annual savings by conducting strategic sourcing and contract negotiations and providing conflict resolution for pricing that improved T&C in Canada and the United States.
• Contributed to demand forecasting for the USA and Canada Pressure Pumping Services (Hydraulic Fracturing); sourced required field equipment.
• Managed the performance of over 300 US and Canadian suppliers and built an efficiency improvement plan
• Built, maintained, and leveraged effective relationships with major contractors at the top management level to provide current and insightful market intelligence to Schlumberger's upper management
• Developed procurement catalogs.

• Won 75% of all open hole/ cased hole tenders, AGIP Exploration Algeria, OMV Tunisia, Gaz de France Algeria, and other tenders, a record for Algeria and Tunisia, by aligning offering and pricing with the customer requirements
• Directed marketing and sales for a $100M business that included over 50 NOC and international clients
• Defined and executed sales plans and leveraged pipeline management to identify sales opportunities; conducted tender and contract negotiations
• Managed eight wireline account managers and seven Petro-technical experts including SME in reservoir, geology, geophysics, production, perforation, and well integrity
• Proactively identified and mitigated potential threats and containment strategies from competitors
• Key Contribution:
• Gained 100% market share of Wireline Openhole and Casedhole in Tunisia by understanding the customer demands and anticipating the competition tactics
• Improved Schlumberger cash flow by reducing Days Sales Outstanding 20%, developing an efficient invoicing validation mechanism, and improving engagement with the decision makers from the buying organization.

• Achieved and sustained pre-tax high business profits of >39% in a competitive Deepwater environment by (improving service quality, optimizing offered services and reducing operating time for key customers
• Oversaw and managed offshore wireline operations, including line management, P&L, and service delivery for the $105M business and managed accounts TOTAL Brunei Deepwater in Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines
• Led a team of 125, including field service managers, engineer in charge, account managers, maintenance staff, field engineers and technicians.
• Grew revenue stream by 15% from $92M by improving service quality, optimizing offered services and reducing operating time for key customers, including Petronas, Murphy Oil, TOTAL and Talisman.
• Achieved top rating by Wireline Global Headquarters CAT Service Quality Audit for leading Wireline Labuan, Malaysia offshore facility to become one of the five top Schlumberger worldwide wireline Centers of Excellence.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kuwait & Bahrain Wireline Service Delivery Manager.

Managed Wireline QA, asset management, supply chain, and HSE for a $220M business and Capex of $32M. Led monthly Saudi Aramco Reservoir Description Department Wireline Service Quality meetings. Conducted incident investigations and root cause analyses; implemented remedial plans to improve service quality, process, and business profitability.

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Key Contributions:

• Achieved top rating by Wireline Global Headquarters CAT Service Quality Audit for implementing processes and addressing operations delivery gaps addressed in a quality compliance audit.
• Improved asset utilization and accuracy to 97% by auditing and consolidating the Fixed Asset List with the physical count, moving all excess assets out of the country, retiring old technologies, and ensuring 100% fixed asset compliance within Schlumberger Saudi Financial books.
• Provided requirements and collaborated with the construction manager to follow up on Wireline Dhahran site build-out delivery, the largest wireline base globally and part of the multiproduct line base.
• Successfully coordinated a large project to deliver an H2S-resistant Modular Dynamic Fluid Tester (MDT) platform to assess the unconventional tight gas reservoir in the ShellRub Al Khali project.

• Several assignments across Africa, Europe and the Caspian Sea as a Wireline Field Engineer and Field Service Manager.
• Areas of expertise: Open hole, perforations, and cased hole Wireline Services.