Bernadette Ryan Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Responsible for all aspects of Procurement Strategy for Jaguar Landrover Middle East and North Africa main responsibilities of the role: • Take ultimate responsibility for developing local purchasing strategies and lead sourcing decisions to deliver ‘Value for Money’ to the MENA region and ensure the reputation of purchasing is high.• Build and maintain exceptional relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.• Conduct market analysis assessments whilst exploring and validating future sourcing opportunities for MENA Region.• Develop a robust understanding of the SAP “Procure to Pay” process and, working with local stakeholders.• Establish a local purchasing function within the MENA region.• Deliver value added commercial savings in line with set annual targets for the Overseas Region.• Develop and implement robust purchasing procedures, which are aligned with central NPP best practise, and ensure that these procedures are audit compliant and adhered to.• Take responsibility for managing the supplier relationship and performance including monitoring of adherence to key KPIs and contract management.

Responsible for Purchasing for all aspects of Global Auto Shows for Jaguar Landrover. Responsibility for Purchasing for Jaguar Landrover Experience.

United Kingdom

Responsibility for purchase of Control Arms and Links across all Landrover and Jaguar car lines. Select and manage the suppliers to ensure all commercial agreements are in place to support timely delivery of quality parts at an agreed price level.Take a leading role within cross-functional teams to ensure competitive pricing levels are achieved. Provide the link between suppliers, JLR engineers and JLR manufacturing operations for all commercial matters concerning my commodities. Ensure installed capacity is in line with issued capacity planning volumes (CPV).

Holyhill Road, Cork

Masters, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management