Bilal Ahmed Email & Phone Number

Punjab, Pakistan

Head of Supply Chain: Strategic Leadership: Spearheading procurement and supply chain operations at Pakistan’s sole aluminum can manufacturing facility, focusing on enhancing cost-efficiency, sustainability, and process digitization. Driving best practices and continuous improvement initiatives for supply chain and procurement. Focusing on long term growth.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• A fast-paced cloud kitchen startup with in-house Virtual Restaurants (VR)
• VR Strategy and Planning Manager (Core Business Categories and Product Management Role)Product, Pricing, Segments, Consumer & Competitor Analysis, Program & Project Management and Integrated Business Planningo Inducted.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• A fast-paced ‘q-commerce’ last-mile delivery startup based out of Pakistan
• Procurement Strategy and Operations Lead – Pakistan (Head of Procurement Role – Pakistan) April -Jul 2022o Led a team of 7 procurement professionals handling Direct & Indirect spend across Pakistano Improved visibility.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Procurement Manager: Airlift Technologies Jan – April 2022Packaging, Logistics, IT Equipment, Consumables and Rider Equipment for 76 stores, warehouses and packing houseso Re-Structured and refocused procurement by developing national level categories, Packaging, CAPEX, Consumables.o Improved working capital through contract re-negotiation and increasing.

Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan

• Procurement ExecutiveCategory Management role: Direct Category: Ingredients: Sugar, C02, Beverage Concentrate; Indirect Category: Consumables & Chemicals (Production, Quality, Utility), Fuels (Diesel, LPG) Management.
• Delivered net productivity savings of USD 1.9 million from the budget.Disposals (Lands, Plant Machinery, Vehicles etc.) + Non-hazardous and Hazardous Scrap Tenderso Managed disposal of idle lands and assets and.

Pakistan

• Secondary Packaging and Direct Marketing Expense (Goods/Services) (DME) procurementDirect Category - Secondary Packaging: Labels, Interlayer, Corrugation, Shrink, StretchIndirect Category – Pallets, DME Materials and.
• Interlayer size types reduced from 13 to 6: improved planning and rate reduction due to bulk buying – resultant savings of USD 0.4 million in 2019-2020o Addition of suppliers for wooden pallets, doubled weekly supply.

Lahore, Pakistan

Procurement Specialist Primary PackagingPrimary Packaging procurement: Closures, Crowns, Preform, Resin, Can, BIB, Preform, Preform Colorants (3 years) Sep 2016-Aug 2019o Operational and Strategic management of Primary Packaging RM for all 6 plants and 2 Toll Fillers for CCI-PKo Contract Management with all suppliers for all primary packaging categorieso.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Set up a Quality Assurance Department at SSC
• Implementation Lead for a project management plan with regards to scaling up quality control operations across the entire domestic vendor base with clear and concise KPIs
• Managing a quality assurance team of 16 individuals working with 80+ vendors in Lahore, Faisalabad, Islamabad and Karachi and at four warehouse locations
• Training of technical and managerial staff for various tasks for the QA department
• Developed Vendor Performance Metrics for assessing capabilities, capacities and growth potential – this lead to the creation of strategic partnerships with Key Vendors and consolidation of production capacity at other.
• Setting up Quality Control departments on vendor sites

Lahore

Shoe Planet: (6 months) August 2014 - February 2015Business Planning, Business Intelligence Reporting, Operations, General Business Processes, Planning: Inventory planning on the basis of sales and season launches. Business Intelligence: Traffic/Conversion/Sales Analysis on a frequent basis. Marketing Impact Assessment on traffic.

MCB House Lahore

Remote Banking, (Mobile Banking). Attended in-house Marketing Strategy meetings for the launch of MCB Lite., formulated an ROI of advertising for MCB Lite and was part of its initial staff launch. Conducted a study on Paypal.

Lahore University Of Management Sciences, Lahore U-Block Defence

Headed as Director (2011) and as Assistant Director (2010) of marketing activities, formulated marketing proposals for potential Sponsors, organized search for potential sponsors and led marketing teams for gathering sponsorship for the event CARMA.

Upper Mall, Lahore

Corporate Marketing, completed an Industry analysis of the Power Sector (Thermal and Hydro-electric), and participated in the day-to-day running of the department, was rotated to Trade, and administration for a week.

Lahore University Of Management Sciences, U-Block, Defence Lahore

Participated as Assistant Director Human Resources; was responsible for managing volunteers, assigning departments to members and for maintaining inter-departmental communication.

Garden Town

Volunteered as a classroom instructor for mathematics, science and geography and took part in admin and marketing activities for CARE Head Office.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Economics, 3.41/4.00

Activities and Societies: LUMS Daily Student (LDS) - A student run journalistic society Olympiad - Assistant Manager OperationsLUMS Daily.

A' Levels, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics And Physics, 4 As

Activities and Societies: Volunteer work with the CARE foundationUndertook part time volunteer work with Care foundation as a class room.

O' Levels, Additional Math, Math, Physics, Chemistry, English, Urdu, Islamic Studies, Pakistan Studies, 6 As And 2 Bs

Activities and Societies: Debate TeamTook part in inter-school Debating Championships Trained new joiners and Organized Debating Events