Karim Mohamed Abdalla Elsarha

Procurement and Inventory Control ManagerFull Time

• Job Details: Strategic Procurement Leadership - Directed the procurement department to establish and execute comprehensive procurement strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. - Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including operations, finance, legal, and project teams, to ensure alignment of procurement activities with business needs. - Oversaw procurement operations, streamlining processes for enhanced efficiency and compliance with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance standards. - Championed cost-saving initiatives, significantly reducing procurement expenses without sacrificing quality or service excellence. - Ensured adherence to international contract standards, including FIDIC and USAID procurement policies, within contract management and tender processes. - Directed the tendering lifecycle, from bid preparation to final submission, ensuring comprehensive documentation and timely delivery. - Managed full contracts' process life cycle from review and issuing to contract renewal. - Negotiated high-value contracts with vendors, achieving optimal value, superior quality, and reliable delivery schedules. - Developed cross-departmental collaboration frameworks with finance, legal, and project teams to support strategic procurement initiatives.  Advanced Inventory Management - Spearheaded the implementation of modern inventory management systems to optimize stock levels, prevent shortages, and reduce excess inventory. - Established and enforced advanced inventory control policies, achieving 100% data accuracy through systematic audits and cycle counts. - Enhanced warehouse operations by introducing streamlined logistics and distribution processes, fostering operational efficiency. - Designed protocols for handling damaged goods and surplus inventory, minimizing losses and maximizing resource utilization. - Conducted comprehensive market research to anticipate trends and position inventory practices to meet evolving demands.  Leadership and Departmental Development - Led and mentored a multidisciplinary team to ensure the continuous development of procurement and inventory control expertise. - Implemented performance evaluation metrics to enhance team accountability and productivity. - Represented SCZONE in high-level discussions, fostering partnerships and advancing the organization’s strategic objectives.

Procurement and Inventory Control Section HeadFull Time

• Job Details:- Ensure that all procurement activities comply with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements. - Implement cost-saving initiatives that reduce procurement expenses without compromising quality or service levels. - Monitored all steps of the procurement process, “Request for Quotations (RFQ), Invitation to Bids (ITB), and Requests for Proposals (RFP) documents”. - Prepared bid terms and specifications with the participation of team members. - Managed negotiations with vendors for the best regarding money value, quality standards, and timely deliveries. - Analyzed supplier quotes and proposals by performing in-depth evaluations of pricing, delivery terms, and service offerings. - Working closely with the finance department to prepare accurate cost estimates and budgets for tender submissions. - Conducting market research to identify opportunities and trends, ensuring bids align with current market conditions. - Developed and improved inventory control policies to prevent stockouts and maintain favorable stock levels. - Oversee the day-to-day activities within the warehouse, ensuring smooth and efficient operations across inventory control, distribution, and logistics. - Implement and maintain inventory management systems to optimize stock levels, prevent shortages, and reduce excess inventory, using best practices in warehouse management.

Senior Cost AccountantFull Time

• Job Details:- Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain a record of assets, liabilities, profit, loss, or other financial activities within an organization. - Accumulate and analysis of cost information for internal use to aid management in planning, control, and decision making. - Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards. - Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice. - Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.