Panda Retail Company – Savola GroupCorporate Procurement Manager
Jan. 2023 - Apr. 2023Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia• Support development of procurement strategy, focusing on high opportunity areas of spend, and identifying challenging procurement spend savings across the business. • Manage all spend within a spend category, defining strategies, working to optimize the RFP / RFI process, contract creation including terms, costing and quality of services delivered. Creation and completion of the service provider performance and benchmarking across the region. • Set up regulations and processes to enable sustainable procurement operations. • Ensures compliance to corporate policies and quality standards. • Fulfills internal and external auditing requirements. • Liaises with internal technical, financial and legal representatives, sub-contractors, and all relative internal and external stakeholders. • Manage contract development through all lifecycle stages