A result oriented Business Professional with 5+ years’ cross-functional experience in Procurement, Supplier Management, Sourcing products & services by fulfilling demand in best prices at the desired time.
* Responsible for P&L, looking after the categories / dept. {Food & Non – Food} of 1 Billion (PKR).* Annual Sales & Marketing Budget, Planning & Forecasting (B-PF) for a portfolio of 98,000 SKU's.* Managing CAPEX Budget (Approx. PKR 2.5 B) for new stores / assets / fixture / materials / logistics.* Supplier evaluation, Supplier BRM, contracts, sourcing new vendors with best Delivery, Price, Quality & Quantity.* Accountable for assortment building, Pricing & Promotional strategy, store layouts all across country.* Conduct Competitor & Market survey to highlight gaps in assortment, pricing, innovation & customer.* Monitor daily Sales & Margins on article/dept. level & take corrective actions to safeguard margin.* Analyze daily stock ordering & receiving, Ensuring assortment availability at all stores in country.* Maintain & Control Stock inventory level (WMS), stock days, stock value under 480 Million (PKR) in stores.* Measure Supplier performance scorecard against KPI's & root cause analysis with top suppliers.* Visiting each store for Audits & Compliance as per communicated plans.
Responsible to manage quarterly budget of PKR 15 million for spending in direct & indirect materials Supply Chain management.
As Senior Strategic Buyer, responsible of 70% transactions in overall procurement via Purchase to Pay (P2P) IHN. ( Capex & Opex )
Reduced lead time & cost optimization by Vendor management system (VMS), resulted in cost saving of PKR 0.5 million.
Identified and proposed improvements in SC process flows to eliminate bottlenecks.
Making effective negotiations with suppliers for analysing, evaluating based on price, quality, delivery & service.
Making Comparison of statement (CS), Purchase Orders, Work Order for services (WO), Obtaining Bill of Quantity (BOQ) from end user.
Liaise with vendors to ensure payment of products / services on timely basis in accordance with finance procedures.
Managing contracts & business relationships with vendors to ensure product availability & best value deliver to company.
Monitor performance of supplier’s service level & report KPIs to Regional Supply Chain Head in monthly meetings.
Coordination with more than 600 suppliers on Stocks management, Order planning and delivery scheduling.
Control ordering parameters of more than 24,000 SKU’s through ERP software.
Control purchase orders, stock value, & KPIs (Right Ordering, Stock Holding, Negative stock, Out of Stock & Clearance).
Initiated Out Of Stock project in store to ensure the availability of assortment that improves customer services and sales.
Control Store Audit, Section Managers audit, Data Base Audit, Standard Management & Goods Receiving Audit.
Worked on product costing and selling price for developing sale strategies.
Conduct competitor survey to identify competitor’s product offerings, features.
Reviews and evaluates the performance of the suppliers based on supplier score card (SAP-BO).
Managed 400 outbound calls to different customer world-wide on weekly basis.
Identify customer’s needs, clarify information, issue and provide solutions or alternatives.
Generated $1000 amount of sale on weekly basis & achieved monthly target of $4000 twice.
Analysing and competition, monitoring performance, managing campaigns on social media.