Jibran Shaikh

Procurement Engineer

• Job Details:Developed and implemented procurement strategies for welding consumables, industrial gases, and maintenance spares, ensuring timely availability and cost optimization by negotiating long term contracts with suppliers, achieving stable pricing and uninterrupted supply, leading to a 15% cost reduction in procurement costs. Facilitated collaboration across multiple project teams for the estimation, forecast and planned delivery of various material requirements for upcoming Saudi Aramco and NOC, Qatar projects. Cross functional co-ordination with project managers, project engineers, store department and quality engineers to address immediate material requirements, resolve supply chain issues and ensure product quality is met with the project requirements. Ensured the shipping documents having the valid HS codes for the custom duty exemption resulting in savings of over USD 200,000/- and ensuring its timely availability to the logistics department for early clearance. Conducted extensive market research, supplier evaluations and securing favorable terms and conditions with respect to the company policies thereby resulting in 12% cost savings. Integration of Ariba platform with the vendors for ensuring the creation of GRN after the completion of the delivery of the material, ensuring timely submission of submission of invoice through Ariba and coordination with finance team for payment. Preparing weekly procurement logs and conducting meeting to monitor the conversion of purchase requisitions to purchase orders and mitigating the discrepancies thereby improving the overall team efficiency by 10%. Weekly evaluation of supplier’s performance through scorecards and implementing corrective actions to remedy deficiencies, improving the supplier performance by 15%.