Supply Chain Management
Resume:
FARID GARDASHBAYOV
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Permanent Resident of Canada
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd (Baku, Azerbaijan) Apr 2007 - Jan
Procurement and Supply Chain Management 2013
Category Lead (Jan 2011 - Jan 2013)
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end category management process for Facilities
Management sector, starting with strategy definition and ending
with supplier management.
- Lead the full sourcing process, which includes development of
scope, supplier selection, commercial negotiation, risk
mitigation and contract execution, ensuring the appropriate
business involvement at all stages of the process.
- Shape contractual terms and conditions, involving legal when
required, employing best practice in contracting methods to
manage risk and maximise value of supply chain.
- Identify opportunities and realize value to supply chain and
procurement through effective use of strategic cost management
tools (eg should-cost analysis, e-auctions).
- Undertake due diligence in mitigating all external supply
risk from supplier selection through to contract execution.
- Actively participate in supplier performance management,
including ongoing contract management and control, collation of
performance data (KPIs), and planning and execution of supplier
meetings, and supplier tiering based on criticality to
business.
- Highlight and process procurement transformation improvement
opportunities (continuous improvement and step change
improvement) across the full procurement life cycle (category
strategy, strategic sourcing, supplier management and purchase
to pay).
Achievements:
- Led Production and Residential Facilities Management sector
overseeing more than $300M spend.
- Led consultancy sector (drilling and operations) overseeing
approx $100M spend.
- Continuous support for purchase and service of valves and
rotating equipment.
- Was SCM tag for transition to the new regional office:
fit-out; construction management; structural engineering,
design and architectural consultancy, and other categories
- Developed Market Sector Strategy for two regional sectors,
saving more than 20% of cost.
- Optimized sectors through consolidation of contracts and
renegotiation of existing contract rates.
- Strategically sourced more than 30 Categories worth more than
$400M.
- Raised an issue of improving cost split for assets, expecting
to save more than $70M.
Category Specialist (Sep 2010 - Dec 2010)
Job responsibilities:
- Conduct souring activities, negotiations, support Manager in
commercial analysis of projects, shape contractual terms and
conditions.
Business Analyst (Sep 2009 - Aug 2010)
Job responsibilities:
- Accountable for the development of cost maps, analysis and
reporting of cost and savings data and other performance
indicators, and acquisition of market information in support of
the category management team and Strategic Performance Units.
- Collate demand, spend and cost data, and prepare cost maps
and report for category management team.
- Collate, analyse and present performance management data and
metrics to help optimise category strategies.
- Support category specialists, contributing to the development
of category strategies, plans and priorities.
- Check compliance of documentation with current supply chain
procedures.
- Support the RFP and supplier selection processes by creating
documentation, developing supplier price evaluation models and
collating data for negotiation strategy.
Achievements:
- Provided Cost modeling for Indirect Procurement covering
$300MM annual spend;
- Performed Supplier Management audit for 5 companies;
- Improved Labor Cost Model, now used by all Supply Chain
Department specialists of BP.
- Participated in development of Transport Market Sector
Strategy, implemented in Azerbaijan (Total Cost of Ownership,
cost variations, risks assessment, etc.)
Treasury Analyst (Apr 2007 - Jul 2007)
Performed bank transactions and monthly reconciliations for
cash reports
UNIVERSAL (Baku, Azerbaijan) Sep 2006 - Apr
Finance Manager 2007
Prepared Financial Regulations and oversaw reporting; managed
operations procurement
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Infrastructure Finance Consultant, Project Contractor Nov 2005 - Sep
Developed Infrastructure finance section of Strategic 2006
Development plan for City of Ganja, the second largest city of
Azerbaijan
PUBLIC FINANCE MONITORING CENTER (Baku, Azerbaijan) Jul 2003 - Nov
Development Manager 2005
Strategic planning; negotiating contracts; contract
administration; operational procurement
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3 EDUCATION
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
(Bloomington, IN, USA) Aug 2007 - May
Master of Public Affairs (GPA: 3.7 out of 4) 2009
Concentrations: Public Financial Administration, Economic
Development, Policy Analysis
AZERBAIJAN STATE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY (Baku, Azerbaijan)
M.A. in International Economic Relations (direction: Economics) Sep 2004 - Jun
with distinction 2006
AZERBAIJAN STATE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY (Baku, Azerbaijan)
B.A. in International Economic Relations (direction: Economics) Sep 2000 - Jun
with distinction 2004
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2 CERTIFICATION
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, W.P. Carey School of Business Sep 2010 - Jul
Professional Certificate in Supply Chain Management 2011
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS (CIMA, CGMA) - Jun 2011
Mutual recognition agreement with Canadian CMA
CIMA (CGMA) Certificate in Business Accounting
1 TRAINING / COURSES ATTENDED
Title of training/ courses Dates attended
6. Advanced Negotiating Skills Sep 27-29, 2010
BP-Azerbaijan, facilitated by Scotwork (Baku,
Azerbaijan)
5. Effective Materials Management Sep 1-3, 2010
BP-Azerbaijan, facilitated by John M. Campbell & Co.
(Baku, Azerbaijan)
4. Strategic Cost Management Oct 14-15, 2009
BP Global, facilitated by Anklesaria Group (London, UK)
3. Project Management Workshop Jul 8-9, 2008
United Nations HQ, Office of Human Resources Management
(New York, NY, USA)
2. "Leasing and Enterprises Development", 03/2004 - 2 weeks
by Agency for Business Development (Baku, Azerbaijan)
1. "Quality Management", by German Development 02-04/2004 - 2 months,
Cooperation (GTZ) only on Saturdays and
Sundays, 6 hrs/day
2 SKILLS
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in English and Russian; Good knowledge of Turkish; Basic knowledge of
French
COMPUTER SYSTEMS SKILLS
Advanced knowledge of MS Windows OS, MS Office programs, Ariba OneSource, Maximo
Medium knowledge of SAP, Business Objects, Commercial Browser, SAS, SPSS
Familiar with IMIS, MS Project and Visio
3 REFERENCES:
References are available upon request
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