Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Projects
Certification
Volunteer Experience
Hobbies
Timeline
Waleed  AlBahnasi

Waleed AlBahnasi

Summary

Accomplished professional with expertise in procurement management and category management, leveraging bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English to enhance communication and negotiation. Demonstrates strong leadership and teamwork skills, driving process improvement and supplier development programs. Proficient in Microsoft Office, with a focus on spend analysis, warehousing, and logistics. Committed to advancing career goals by optimizing procurement strategies and fostering efficient supply chain operations.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Consultant

KPMG Saudi Arabia
Khobar, Saudi Arabia
08.2022 - Current

PIF Portfolio Co. (Supplier Develpment Program)

  • Conducted demand analysis to align procurement strategy with business needs, optimizing a 3.088 billion SAR budget.
  • Developed supplier development strategic objectives and enablers to enhance supply chain resilience.
  • Identified and prioritized high-impact spending categories, driving cost optimization and efficiency.
  • Designed and implemented the supplier selection criteria to ensure sourcing from competitive and high-quality vendors.
  • Developed a structured supplier engagement model, fostering long-term supplier relationships and collaboration.
  • Designed the supplier development process model and established a RACI matrix, clarifying procurement roles and responsibilities.
  • Created a performance monitoring framework and scorecard to track supplier KPIs and ensure continuous improvement.
  • Developed a supplier grading framework, enabling better segmentation and targeted development programs.
  • Led the supplier development strategy, ensuring alignment with procurement objectives and business growth.

Oil & Gas Sector (Accounting Procedure Improvement):

  • Designed comprehensive desktop procedure manuals, providing step-by-step instructions and best practices to ensure consistency, clarity, and ease of use for employees.

Oil & Gas Sector (OPEX Improvement):

  • Conducted comprehensive spend analysis, evaluating procurement data from multiple sources to identify savings opportunities.
  • Developed a customized spend categorization methodology to accurately classify and segment expenditures, improving spending visibility.
  • Performed in-depth supplier analysis, assessing supplier performance, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and negotiating favorable contracts.
  • Created detailed spend reports and visualizations, presenting findings and recommendations to senior management, driving cost reduction strategies.
  • Identified process improvements to enhance spend analysis methodologies, increasing accuracy and efficiency in future assessments.

Public Sector Entity:

  • Conducted a thorough assessment of logistics and warehousing operations to identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvement areas.
  • Developed tailored strategies to optimize logistics and warehousing processes, considering sector-specific requirements and constraints.
  • Assisted in the design and implementation of efficient warehouse layouts, inventory management systems, and logistics workflows to enhance operational efficiency and cost reduction.
  • Provided training and knowledge transfer sessions to equip staff with logistics and warehousing management expertise.

Public Sector Entity:

  • Conducted procurement assessments, identifying areas for improvement and recommending solutions in line with industry best practices.
  • Established procurement policies, procedures, and service level agreements (SLAs) to enhance contract management and define the contracting cycle.
  • Designed and implemented custom dashboards, templates, and reports tailored to the needs of the procurement and contracts department.
  • Developed a comprehensive tendering manual, outlining document requirements for requesting departments and conducting knowledge transfer workshops.

Public Sector Entity:

  • Contributed to mapping 6,000 products by researching manufacturing processes and analyzing value chains to support the development of a tailored software solution.

Process Engineering Intern

Saudi Aramco
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
01.2021 - 08.2021
  • Conducted research to find different methodologies to separate water from crude oil.
  • Re-evaluated three phase separators to ensure compliance with company standards due to forecasted crude flow rates over the upcoming 25 years.
  • Managed to reduce 100 MMSCF of gas production with minimum reduction in production of crude oil as per Test & Inspection request.
  • Conducted high level studies on process flow diagrams to establish future plant operations.
  • Conducted safety presentation on journey management procedures as per company policy.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Applied Chemical Engineering

King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Eastern Province
05.2022

Skills

  • Bilingual (Native in Arabic & Fluent in English)
  • Proficient in Microsoft office
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Process improvement
  • Spend Analysis
  • Procurement Management
  • Category Management
  • Warehousing and Logistics
  • Supplier Development Program

Projects

  • Dehydrogenation Plant (4/9/2022)

Constructed a Hysys simulation and design of a plant that aims to produce 400 KTons per year of propylene, with 99.5% purity and 85% selectivity via dehydrogenation of propane.

Certification

  • CIPS - Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
  • Mckinsey Step Forward Program
  • Introduction to Aspen Hysys
  • Aramco Internship
  • IES Electronics & Design Phase Formula 1 Concept Car Project

Volunteer Experience

F1 3D Concept Car Project (2021)

  • Aided in designing a formula 1 car in CAD software
  • Provided support in structuring a prototype formula 1 car
  • Conducted test runs across a variety of designs to pinpoint weaknesses and strengths
  • Reworked weaknesses to provide improvements to the design


Ithraa Volunteer (2017)

  • Provided tour guides to 100+ visitors a day
  • Supervised Children at the Energy Exhibit playground
  • Painted UV drawings on visitors
  • Organized chemical and storytelling shows



Eid Festival (2017)

  • Provided guides throughout the festival at the information booth
  • Announced shows and events
  • Provided crowd control and supervision to activities

Hobbies

  • Athletic (take part in majority of sports)
  • Practicing Languages
  • Studying the stock market
  • Playing the guitar
  • Learning about cars and implementing them
  • Learning about smithing and wood work

Timeline

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Consultant - KPMG Saudi Arabia
08.2022 - Current
Process Engineering Intern - Saudi Aramco
01.2021 - 08.2021
King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals - Bachelor of Science, Applied Chemical Engineering
Waleed AlBahnasi