Purchasing/Supply Chain Professional
Resume:
KHALID QURAISHI MBA
Milton, ON
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SENIOR PROFESSIONAL-STRATEGIC SOURCING/PROCUREMENT/COMMODITY MANAGEMENT
Extensive international managerial experience in strategic sourcing/procurement/managing supply chains and impacting cost, risk and profitability
Experienced in establishing KPIs (performance metrics) and benchmarks and working on continuous improvement, sustainable initiatives. Demonstrated experience in developing credible business relationships with and influencing key stakeholders; driving business reviews, negotiations and managing relationships with suppliers
Areas of Expertise:
Supplier identification, evaluation, selection
TCO reduction, risk mitigation, process improvement
Supplier management, performance evaluation
Monitoring and reporting on KPIs
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GPSI: Working part time with the Supplier Surveillance Team at GPSI (Global Partner Solutions) March 2020 – current
SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS Feb 2015 – July 2019
World Leader in design, manufacture and support of aircraft landing and brake systems
SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE LEAD
Manage relationship with a portfolio of Local and Global Suppliers and focal points including monitoring and reporting on KPIs.
Lead multisite Supplier business reviews with a cross functional Safran team:
determine load and capacity constraints
assess risk and recovery potential
evaluate ongoing performance and preparedness for integrating increased business
establish cost effectiveness
gauge financial and organizational viability
measure and monitor KPIs on all initiatives and deliverables
SPAENAUR INC. Aug2011 –Sep2014
Leading Wholesale Master Distributor for industrial fasteners
Manager, Procurement and Product Development
Senior Manager reporting to Company President
Planned, directed and coordinated strategic sourcing/procurement activities in support of company’s EBITA, ROI, and customer focused objectives; improved business processes; reduced costs; increased profitability; maintained contracts/agreements; managed inventory; developed procedures; provided leadership in all procurement initiatives geared to driving sustainable success.
Built, sustained and developed supplier relations; conducted periodic reviews, monitoring performance against key indicators. Negotiated commercial issues/disputes, seeking amicable resolution.
Achievements:
Supplier Management: yielded 20% cost savings by renegotiating logistics services; eliminated 10% nonperforming Suppliers as measured against key indicators and targets
Operational Planning: reduced customer back orders by 50% by improving internal processes and proactively managing inventory, updating and fine-tuning purchasing and ordering parameters within ERP
CELESTICA INTERNATIONAL 1998 – 2011
Celestica is a leading Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider serving the Computer, Telecommunications and Networking markets
COMMODITY MANAGEMENT MANAGER
In customer facing role, worked with Fortune 500 Companies - GE Medical, Cisco, EMC ensuring supply chain optimization by providing leadership in managing requirements and costs. Led a team of 5 Buyers/Planners
Managed over $50m business acting as primary customer advocate within the organization.Partnered with clients to develop a collaborative SCM approach on Forecasting, Demand & Inventory Management, S&OP process.
Achievements:
Process improvement/Cost savings: yielded $3 million in annual savings by re-engineering a Lotus Notes based Purchase Price Variance recovery process and integrating with the SAP (ERP) application
Customer Service: Effectively managed a customer program to end of life, ensuring a 4 week lead time reduction, increase in turns from 8 to 12, reducing obsolescence write offs to less than 0.5% of inventory value
Performance: Received merit award for excellence in on-time delivery
GILLETTE INTERNATIONAL – AMEE (Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe) 1988 – 1998
A manufacturing, distribution and sales conglomerate for well known brands viz Gillette, Braun, Oral-B and Duracell
EXPATRIATE SOURCING/MATERIALS MANAGER – PAKISTAN, UK, RUSSIA
Managed global procurement strategy/supplier relationship, leveraging company’s direct, indirect, aftermarket expenditure with a focus on TCO. Managed a $50 million spend across commodities, materials, capital equipment and engineering supplies.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION/OTHER
MBA, Central Oklahoma, USA; MBA, BSc., University of Karachi
Certificate in Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Univ. of Waterloo
Excellent comprehension of ERP systems; Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook. Excellent organizational, time management and problem-solving skills; intellectually rigorous and confident with a high sense of integrity, humility and the ability to make a difference
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