Syed Aslam Ali

**** ******* *****, ***********, *******, L5L 4S8, Canada

Tel: 905-***-**** Cell: 647-***-****

Email: acxxac@r.postjobfree.com

DIRECTOR PURCHASING & Supply Chain

An accomplished Purchasing & Supply Chain Professional, with over 18 years of experience with large diverse global organizations. I have worked at both Strategic & Tactical levels.

SKILLS ACQUIRED

Excellent Presentation skills

Excellent Financial Skills

Quick decision making

Risk Mitigation

Problem Solving, Influencing

Vendor Development

SRM (Supplier relationship Mgmt.)

Organizing, Planning,, Win -Win

e-Procurement/e-Sourcing tools (ST6,e-Buy)

Strategic Thinking

Arriba based Spend Mgmt. tools

Negotiation/Influencing Skills

Procurement KPIs/Dashboard

X-Functional Teamwork

Six Sigma Green Belt

Strategic Sourcing(off-shoring)

Leadership skills (mentoring, coaching, motivating)

Contract Management

Cost Reductions

TCO (total cost of ownership)

Cost Benchmarking

ERPs (SAP,JDE)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Sanofi Aventis (Vaccines Business), Toronto, Canada Nov 2011 to date

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, is a global company & a world leader in the vaccine industry, Sanofi Pasteur offers the broadest range of vaccines protecting against 20 infectious diseases.

In this role, my responsibilities include:

Making presentations, attending meetings at Senior stakeholder level (VP-C level Executives)

Strategic sourcing of Contractors, Consultants, Contingent Workforce

Procurement of Capital Equipment & Services for Projects, ranging from $ 2.0 M to $ 400 M.

Strategic Sourcing- Competitive bidding (RFPs/RFQs/Tendering) using e-Sourcing ST6/e-buy platforms. Latest projects include $ 400 million worth new manufacturing plant

Contract Management- MSAs/Service Agreements

Global Delivery (Offshoring) of Human Capital for specialized roles in Procurement, Engineering & Supply chain, mostly to & from the US/UK in Consultant roles.

Global Delivery (Offshoring activities),including, Spare parts sourcing, payables, Financial Services. Rate Benchmarking in Industry

Supplier Risk Analysis Mitigation: Supplier pre-qualification, D&B Analysis, Regional/ global leveraging.

New Vendor development

Value Creation/ TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Rate Negotiations-NAS/VAS Savings (Negotiated Action Savings + Value Added savings)

Vendor Performance management- KPIs Monitoring/SMART objectives

Budget forecasting, mapping exercise, coverage and savings targets

Contracting Strategy (Robust scope and T&C’s to mitigate risks)

Key Achievements:

Achieved Net Annual Savings in 2016 of $2.0M through Negotiation & executed, numerous Master Service Agreements with local/global companies during 2015-16 for Sourcing of resources (externals)

Savings generated: >10% pa thru Buy Cheaper, Buy Better, Buy Less

Process mapping leading to Process simplification & improvements.

Introduced New Vendors for different trades including, Architectural, M E&P, CQV, Process Eng.

Director Logistics/Country Manager Supply Chain Jan 2007 – Oct 2011

DHL Exel

DHL Exel is world’s largest 3PL Company and a division of D.P.W.N. The local 3 PL business had 11 central DCs & 24 satellite warehouses & own transportation fleet. Purchase of Material Handling material. My job responsibilities included:

People management- Skill assessment, Objectives setting, Appraisals, development plans for future

Employee engagement

Managing Supply Chain & Procurement functions ( financially & operationally)

Supplier Risk Analysis & Mitigation

Regional & Global Synergies & Savings

New Vendor development:

Procurement Best Practices

Managing S&OP for clients

Regional & Global Synergies & Savings

Key Achievements:

DHL Exel Leadership award for improving business performance at both top &bottom line

Negotiation on MHEs resulted in $1.8M in Negotiated Savings for spend of $ 30M in racking, Purchase of Lift trucks, Fork trucks, Distribution trucks & other warehouse equipment.

Overhead cost reduction, removal of non-value added costs, resulted in gross profit improving from 24% to 34% of revenue through structured cost saving initiatives.

Director Procurement & Integrated Supply Chain-CPG July 1998- April 2002

Reckitt Benckiser, AME

Reckitt Benckiser is a global Consumer goods co with annual turnover in excess of US $ 12 billion. As department head, my reporting was to the regional Functional head & a dotted line to the local CEO & job responsibilities included:

Overall responsibility for Supply Chain & Manufacturing (multi-site operations) with 1200 full time employees (FTEs), procurement, quality assurance, planning, warehousing and logistics

People management- Skill assessment, Objectives setting, Appraisals, development plans for future

Global Delivery (offshore) examples include:

oMoving packaging development process & supply to China

oMoving manufacturing of a liquid Laundry product to India

oShifting Aerosols insecticides manufacturing process to Australia

Strategic planning for the entire function, ensuring achievement of targeted KPIs.

Vendor development and management of third party manufacturers.

Ensuring strict compliance to GMP for manufacture of Pharmaceuticals.

Managing the S& OP Process across the organization

Controlling overall Procurement costs within targets.

Key Achievements:

Strategic Sourcing for Projects involving construction of office building, Plants, Machinery of the value of over $ 30 million at the CPG/OTC businesses.

Negotiated Action Savings (NAS) resulting in Business Gross profits improvement from 19% to 39%.

Supplier Payables improved from 28 days to 82 days.

Cost savings & NWC Management was rated “ Best in class within the Reckitt Benckiser World”

EDUCATION

MBA IBA (Affiliated with Wharton school) Masters In Business Administration

B.S (Eng.) NED University Karachi Mechanical Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERPs: Using SAP since last 5 years. BPCS, JD Edwards.

Arriba based Spend Management Systems (NEXTs), Syner-trade (ST6), e-Buy

MS Office: MS Office (Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Power Point, others)

Other Skills: e-options (stock trading)

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