Experience

NEXT50

• United Arab Emirates
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Procurement

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Developing and implementing procurement policies, as well as managing vendor relationships. Ensure the effectiveness andefficiency of the organization’s purchasing process. Setting purchasing guidelines, managing budgets, and overseeing the entirepurchasing process. Working closely with other department heads to ensure that all supplies and services needed for thecompany’s operations are purchased on time and at the best Total Cost of Ownership.• Development and implement the procurement policies and processes. Including procedures and guidelines for purchaseorder approvals and ensuring that all purchases are approved by the appropriate people.• Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics ERP as per the defined processes and procedures• Vendor’s selection, commercial negotiation and contracting• Successfully lead the procurement part of the ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 certifications• Preparation of the Business Continuity Plan for the Procurement organization



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Business Procurement Manager (Nokia Enterprise, Global Services, Optics & IP business groups)

  • Jan 2016 - Jul 2021

  Setting & implementing the procurement strategy for the concerned business group and look for processes’ improvement. Work closely with the category managers to consolidate the right information used as part of the strategy input. Ensure the right execution of the defined strategy by the Market Procurement and the category managers. • Strategy: definition for Government & Smart cities Procurement - Reinforcing Preferred Suppliers, defining related strategy• Cost Improvement: Leading Nokia Enterprise Cost Savings Top 50 suppliers (65% of the spend) and long tail reduction (-10%). Cost reduction of 6%• Transformation: Process Improvement definition and implementation to reduce time to Market• Operation: Lead Contract Management program - OEM Software licenses management• Development Support: Guarantee the right “early engagement” of Procurement organization with Sales and Pre-Sales teams• Cost Analysis: Create Digitalized Dashboard tools for Nokia Enterprise• Innovation: Leading Procurement part of the Crowdsourcing project• Business Partner Management: Global ION (IP & Optic Networks) Services Procurement management - Suppliers Business Review, Supplier’s performance evaluation.

• Head of Procurement Middle East, Turkey and Africa

  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2016

  Responsible of the entire Procurement organization in the region. From strategy definition perspective to the delivery on fields of the services and materials procured. Engaged the teams to ensure they are providing their maximum capabilities and utilizing their potential. • Team Empowerment: Leading a team of 27 procurement project managers in Middle-East, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Africa.• Strategy and Objectives: Defining annual procurement Strategy/Objectives/KPIs - Foster Regional strategic suppliers• Development: Supporting Business Divisions in Pre-sales and Post-sales.• Negotiation: Ensuring the competitiveness of 3rd party bids for class A&B projects (>5Meuros) - Cost of Sales Improvement, E-auction, Preferred Suppliers strategy, Supplier Rationalization• Cost Analysis: Analyzing the Total Cost of Ownership impact of the categories and Redefining priorities.• Business Partner Management: Supplier business review• Operation: Ensuring on time delivery/high quality product and services/cost effectiveness of 3rd parties parts• Ethics: Gate keeper for compliance and EHS zero tolerance policies• Accountable: Managing a budget of 230Meuros per year in Direct and Indirect Procurement.



ALCATEL-LUCENT INTERNATIONAL

• Norway
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EMEA Procurement Transformation Leader and Middle East Africa Services Purchasing Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

  Lead Procurement transformation in Europe Middle East Africa and Responsible for services negotiation team in Middle East Africa.• Transformation: Leading procurement and transformation multi-business groups CR2P (Cost Reduction to Procure) and 3PM (3rd Party Management) transformation programs in EMEA - Guiding Market Procurement Heads and Global Customer Delivery, Tendering, Regional and cluster leaders. - Preparing reports of the work progress to the top management on regular basis.• Procurement: Driving the standardization of the Bill of Quantity and Scope of Works related to the civil works and installation and commissioning activities.

• CORPORATE SERVICES PROCUREMENT GLOBAL COMMODITY MANAGER

  • Jun 2006 - Dec 2008

  • Team Empowerment: Leading MEA Services Negotiators team. • Negotiation skills Negotiating subcontracted services (Civil Works, Installation & Commissioning, Technical Support, Maintenance) for all business groups. • Leading negotiations for strategic projects (PakTel, Vodafone Qatar, EMTS Nigeria, Reliance India, etc...). 20% cost reduction performed out of a purchase volume of 60 M€ for 2007• Audit: Auditing Procurement Organization.



ALCATEL

• Senior Business Project Manager

  • Jun 2000 - May 2006

  • Project Management: Implementing customers projects in 12 countries (Europe and Middle-East Africa). P&L accountability.• Development: Customer management. Business upscaling.• Business Partner Management: Managing the internal stakeholders (Finance, Deployment team, Technical support, etc…) • Quality: Assuring the final customer satisfaction. • Accountability: Overseeing sales volume up to 22M€ per year. • Project Management: Implementing customers projects in 12 countries (Europe and Middle-East Africa). P&L accountability.• Development: Customer management. Business upscaling.• Business Partner Management: Managing the internal stakeholders (Finance, Deployment team, Technical support, etc…) • Quality: Assuring the final customer satisfaction. • Accountability: Overseeing sales volume up to 22M€ per year.



Groupe Bull

• Legal Services

• IT Project Manager

  • Oct 1997 - May 2000

  • Innovation: Multiplying by 4 the Productivity of the workshop manufacturing 10000 PC per year for the employees of Bull Group in France by Introducing in industrial application hard disk imaging software • Innovation: Multiplying by 4 the Productivity of the workshop manufacturing 10000 PC per year for the employees of Bull Group in France by Introducing in industrial application hard disk imaging software