Mohamed El Ashram, Bsc, Mrics Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Dubai

• Develop and execute procurement strategies aligned with organizational objectives to ensure optimal resource utilization and cost efficiency.• Translate high-level strategies into detailed operational plans, assigning tasks and SMART goals to teams while tracking progress through key performance indicators (KPIs).• Lead, motivate and mentor diverse teams of Quantity Surveyors and procurement officers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.• Manage departmental structure, resources, and workflow to ensure alignment with business needs.• Conduct performance reviews and annual appraisals, using KPIs to measure and enhance individual and team effectiveness.• Lead system enhancements, simplifying workflows and improving efficiency through SAP updates and revised procurement policies.• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, implementing process improvements to streamline operations and enhance productivity.• Manage budgets and expenditures to maximize cost savings while ensuring compliance with governance and procurement policies.• Produce top-management reports including cost savings, price forecasts, team workload distribution, projects procurement statuses, etc... for executive review.• Support project planning through site visits, techno-commercial evaluations, and contributions to budget preparation.• Direct the tender process, including reviewing, negotiating and approving high-value contracts, ensuring the best value and compliance with technical requirements.• Apply value engineering where feasible, ensuring cost efficiency without compromising technical quality.• Engage in vendor prequalification, outsourcing and contract management, maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders.• Identify repetitive requirements, study consumption patterns and select specific packages to enter into FWAs.• Manage and resolve claims, disputes and budget releases, maintaining smooth operations and project delivery.

Dubai, Uae

Responsible for:- All pre-contracts activities such as receiving SOWs from project managers, analyzing and improving the content, producing RFPs / RFQs, outsourcing subcontractors, evaluating offers, negotiating, recommending for award and issuing contracts.- Conducting follow up meetings with subcontractors after award for various reasons; i.e. quality assurance and compliance, time schedule catch ups, value engineering sessions, etc…- Assisting the Estimating team in pricing bids submitted to US military clients (NAVY, AFCEE, AFCEC, USACE, etc…), for various US governmental and federal projects in Afghanistan, Middle East and Africa.- Complying all above estimating and procurement practices with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplements (FAR and DFARS).

Cairo, Egypt

- Coordinating and preparing tenders and contract documents at the Pre-award phase.- Outsourcing contractors or consultants, issuing RFQs/RFPs and collecting offers, negotiating, issuing and administering Fixed Firm, Cost Plus or FIDIC, contracts (in Arabic or English languages)- Participating in tender committees for tender openings and evaluation.- Applying value engineering when needed for cost control and time management.- Administering and compiling required data to prepare counter-claims against contractor / consultant in disputes, arbitration and litigation processes if needed. (Post-award).- Providing procurement or contractual advises when needed, to various parties from PMs to CEO.- Coordinating between contractors and different departments and engaging in day to day meetings with different parties, for various technical and commercial reasons.- Working on expanding contractors database and upgrade current ones to required desired level of professionalism (in terms of work quality, reporting system, correspondences, documents submissions and tasks close outs)

Cairo, Egypt

Responsible for the bidding process to win and secure new projects by preparing the best priced tenders. Duties were:- Regularly checking, observing and selecting the online issued solicitations to bid for, under the US IDIQ Program for Afghanistan’s infrastructure, military and educational development.- Pricing and preparation of proposals and bids submitted to local clients for the commercial projects, complying with consultants’ design, comments, notes, etc…- Pricing and preparation of proposals and bids submitted to US military clients or main contractors, for various US governmental and federal projects in Afghanistan and Djibouti, including cost estimation and forecasting, all in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplements (FAR and DFARS)- Leading the engineering team through tender preparations (RFP documents, specs and drawings, etc...)- Supervising quantity take-offs and revising BOQs generated from different teams (Civil, Electrical and Mechanical).- Pricing of BOQ items and backing it up with valid offers and quotes.

Riyadh, Ksa

. Job duties were:- Pre-Contract responsibilities for all assigned projects starting from receiving project information (budget, BOQ, drawings, specification, project duration, etc…) up to contract issuance i.e. receiving PRs, issuing open tenders, getting offers, negotiating, finalizing and issuing POs or Contracts.- Post-Contract responsibilities for all assigned projects starting from contract issuance up to close-out i.e. following up contractors’ progress and productivity, certifying invoices and creating payment certificates.- Maintaining healthy relations with key suppliers and expanding suppliers’ database.- Conducting site visits whenever required to evaluate assigned vendors’ performance and progress.- Creation and maintenance of my Cost Savings Reports / Forecast Reports / Workload Reports / etc…

Cairo, Egypt

Responsibilities were as follows:- Design and generate AutoCAD drawings for interior designs, finishing and furnishing.- Supervision of interior finishing works at a number of residents, cafes and restaurants, in addition to the renovation of Americana's restaurants (Kentucky, Pizza Hut, Fridays, Costa, etc...) to meet clients’ satisfaction.- Quantity surveying, measure up calculations, pricing and forming adequate offers.

Bsc, Civil Engineering

High School, Egyptian Thanaweya Amma