Managing the seasonings, ingredients and grains portfolio

supplier management, negotiations, ERP, cost reductions, savings

- Working on analyzing the Request for Supply (RFS)- (Cst) Contract Strategy, RFQ, Memorandum of Award & Final Contract Awarding.- Evaluation of Bidders; both Commercial and Technical.- Working on Tender processes and Revisions.- Ensuring Contracts distribution to the interested/user parties.- Supporting the End Users in the execution of Contract- Maintain a detailed file for every contract for audits- Registering the Contract data in the database systems- systems used - SAP and GPS (Global Procurement System).Detailed Tasks:• Negotiating prices, terms and conditions with vendors to prepare contract documentation and award recommendation.• Contributing to the vendor qualification system through research and evaluation of commodity areas and making recommendations for additions to Qualified Vendors List, based on sound commercial, financial, technical and quality-assurance principles as well as providing a necessary feed-back on responsiveness and performance of the tenderers / contractors;• Procurement of materials & services for eni Exploration, Drilling, Logistics, IT, Real Estate, Construction, Camp Administration, HR, HSE, Field Security, Commercial/Legal & other support functions.• Utilizing Eni’s Framework Contracts to ensure price rationalization, Monthly report on Spent amounts & Savings.• To ensure all contracting/procurement is performed in accordance with company laws, procedures and MSG.

- Responsible for updating the Company Planning & Reporting Procedure and spread it across all Company Dpts. and locations. -Carrying out all the planning, reporting and monitoring/analysis activities for Contracts & Procurement Dpt.-Developed cost estimate models for critical merchandise; creating a control model to analyze causes of differences between planned activity and actual; forecasting opportunities for Local Content.-Established and maintained the Contracts and Procurement Department Reporting System and practises in line with the HQ directives.-Responsible for gathering information from the Using Units about future work programs and preparing procurement plans for timely procurement of goods and services. Preparing 4-years procurement plan and monthly procurement reports, analysis and presentations for Top Management.-Ensuring procurement data is appropriately managed and analyzed in order to: anticipate needs; verify purchasing strategies and improve actions in the Company Strategic Cycle.-Proposed and implemented new Reporting practises, such as Key Performance Indicators in compliance with Company requirements.-Prepared strategic "ad hoc" analysis to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the procurement process to continuously improve, re-evaluate and optimise the purchasing and contracting activities.

The overall purpose of my job was to coordinate timely, efficient and economical custom clearance of all goods imported and exported. Liaised with the end-users and maintained a proper follow-up with the freight forwarders and customs clearing agents. Facilitated clearance and made efforts to obtain exemptions of duties and taxes wherever possible as per the applicable laws. Ensured timely and error free receipt of all shipping documents from shippers and their prompt issuance to clearing agents. Maintained shipping records properly and in an easily accessible manner on both paper and computer. Produced various reports on shipments as and when required.-Coordinated with buyers and warehouse staff so that the material could be cleared and sent to various company sites well on time.-Checking & preparing documents on receipt of the shipping documents in co-ordination with clearing agents for custom clearance purposes.-Continuous follow-up with the clearing agents to expedite the status of various under clearance consignments and solve the problems and remove objections raised by the custom authorities to clear the shipments.-Correspondence with the International Suppliers / Vendors regarding preparation of export documentation or amendments in shipping documents.-Filing and keeping electronic records of all imports and exports.-Preparation of different types of reports for internal users as well as for external users such as: Customs, DGPC and other government agencies.

-Carried out Pre-Qualification and Feedback activities within Contracts and Procurement department in order to make available the best Suppliers for category operating in the local market.-Set up a vendor database of pre-qualified/qualified suppliers integrated with the feedback system. Updated database adding/deleting suppliers as and when necessary; conducted pre-qualification processes to enhance the number of suppliers for each category. Set up a feedback mechanism of supplier performance and updated the same on a regular basis in order to have available the Supplier status and the related corrective actions in case of negative feedback.-Acted as a focal point in coordination with the Using Dpts. for all the matters related to Pre-Qualification and Feedback.-Worked on improving the local suppliers through feedback and follow-up actions for getting best market opportunities.-Recorded all the main information related to the Suppliers qualification process in order to prepare analysis/reports about Suppliers Qualification and Feedback status.-Enhanced Pre-qualification and Feedback procedure/process/forms taking in to consideration the local constraints.