Experience

Optimity Ltd

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Procurement Officer

  • May 2021 - Present

  Ownership and development of the procurement workflow and overall procurement processes managing the procurement team and BAU ordering for strategic accounts Overall vendor management, vendor selection and on-boarding Ownership of Partner Agreements Sourcing the Supply of IT Software, Hardware and licenses, and services to fulfill client needs Quoting and Ordering IT Software, Hardware and licenses from a vast base of suppliers Developing and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers Reducing cost of sales where possible and helping to increase revenue margin Supporting acquisitions, process improvements and more efficient work between teams Show less



Conn3ct previously Connect Managed Services

• London, United Kingdom

• Buyer

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2021

  - Negotiating the best cost and creating and maintaining cost price books for all types of services to provide new pricing to sales - Verifying orders, creating sales orders and purchase orders making sure we get paid on time and the services are backed off - Responsible for various relationship with suppliers, covering manufactures like Avaya Cisco, Genesys & Microsoft, Channel distribution partners and all other local service suppliers - Sourcing new maintenance support suppliers to work with as required for new territories or new technologies - Working closely with the sales team on bids to provide new pricing, or to check pricing used from previous bid - Creating various excel reports to the management to have clear visibility on costs Show less



AB InBev

• Belgium
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Procurement Management Officer

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2019

  - Implemented Global projects on Regional Procurement level for the Europe Zone- Executed specialized tasks for projects: Develop, Test, Improve, Train, Implement, Maintain- Performed trainings on process and system changes for the procurement department- Monitored, controlled and reported project performances (eg. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Purchase Card, GLASS, Mobile Expence)- Managed Procurement Department related escalations for the Western Europe Zone on behalf of higher management- Key contact for system related queries Category Managers, Directors, and higher management- Presented on productivity targets on a by weekly basis to ensure that necessary actions are taken at the right time Show less

• Supplier Enablement Specialist

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2017

  - Executed change management projects and activities for internal and external stakeholders- Supported alignment with other functions within Procurement and outside- Developed and implementing new systems and process related solutions for Procurement- Performed training sessions on new systems, processes and requirements - Maintained Procurement related systems for Regional Procurement offices and Shared Services- Implementing and sustaining policy changes for Procurement

• Benefralux and Germany Ticketing Expert at Anheuser-Busch InBev

  • Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

  - Assisted the transition of Budapest BSC to Prague and India, training the new team members- Managed the workload distribution and productivity of the team- Backed up Team Leader, supported and coached the team in their issues and escalations- Participated in regular Brewery calls to ensure process alignment, escalation follow up and satisfactory resolutions- Provided regular and ad-hoc reports to the management and the team on productivity to ensure follow up on KPIs - Maintained Customer 1 and GLASS ticketing tool accesses and system setups- Escalation point for technical/IT issues Show less

• Benefralux and Uki FI Expert

  • May 2015 - Dec 2015

  - Coordinated the posting of stuck electronic financial invoices and forwarded the root causes to the automation expert- Handled Vendor and Employee Ticket escalations and provided resolution according to the Procure to Pay Service Level Agreement- Successfully handled most non-routine issues and escalated issues appropriately to the Team lead - Distributed workload among team members - Acted as a back up of the Team lead and supported any upcoming ad-hoc tasks

• Invoice Matching Purchase Order Specialist

  • Oct 2014 - May 2015

  - Resolved incorrectly booked, partially or entirely wrongly paid items- Direct contact for key suppliers to ensured on time payment- Organized and led meetings and conference calls about recurring issues and provide possible solutions to management- Have been the point of contact for different departments in order to follow up invoicing issues for key account managers- Coordinated supplier invoices to be posted and paid according to their respected payment terms- Executed account reconciliation Show less

• Invoice Matching Purchase Order Trainee

  • Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

  - Resolving parked and blocked invoices for payment- Process workflow items that are pending on the BSC- Reconciliation of selected vendor accounts - Processed Invoices and credit notes- Collaboration with treasury department by providing key information to support reaching the cash flow forecast target