Girgis Raouf Nasim
Head Of Procurement
Cairo
Summary
Electrical Engineer with experience spanning of 20 years in construction field, working in many constructions process stages; Site & shop drawings, design, supervision, procurement, for numerous projects
Results-driven procurement professional with expertise in identifying cost-savings opportunities, managing vendors and negotiating contracts. Proven track record of successful cost optimization and supplier performance management.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of procurement
Reliance development
07.2025 - Current
- Collaborated with finance departments on budgeting and forecasting activities, ensuring accurate representation of procurement expenses and cost-saving opportunities.
- Managed supply chain process, from order placement to delivery, to facilitate on-time and accurate fulfillment.
- Prepared and presented reports to management on purchasing trends and cost savings to aid in decision making.
- Developed strong relationships with key suppliers, resulting in improved communication, better pricing, and reliable delivery schedules.
- Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.
- Reduced procurement costs by implementing strategic sourcing initiatives and negotiating favorable contracts with suppliers.
- Developed and implemented procurement policies and procedures to enhance compliance with company standards.
- Conducted thorough supplier evaluations, selecting vendors based on quality, price, reliability, and commitment to sustainability initiatives.
- Monitored and managed procurement budget to control costs.
- Conducted spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Resolved invoice and payment issues to facilitate prompt payment to suppliers.
- Analyzed market trends to identify new suppliers and emerging technologies that could enhance company operations or reduce costs.
- Implemented category management strategies to optimize purchasing decisions across various product lines and business units.
- Implemented sustainable procurement strategy, contributing to company's environmental goals by selecting eco-friendly materials and suppliers.
- Tracked contract performance metrics and reported issues or non-compliance with appropriate stakeholders.
- Identified opportunities to reduce lead times and improve inventory management.
- Completed monthly profit and loss performance reports.
Procurement manager
Sterling and Wilson
09.2018 - 06.2025
- Solar department
- Project: 5 stations of 55 MWP SOLAR PROJECT, EGYPT
- Project Brief: Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company announced program for renewable energy procurement. The project is allotted under targeted procurement of 2 GW of Solar Power under Feed-in-Tariff (Fit) Mechanism.
- Our Scope: Design, Engineering, Supply, Erection, Installation, Testing and Commissioning of solar plant including 22 kV Substation.
- Data center department
- Procurement manager of the following projects:
- TE regional data center HUB.
- Project consists of 4 stages each about 480 Racks.
- TE Data center at new capital governmental district (Network Node 1 building(NN1) )
- Vodafone (VOIS) data center
Electrical and IT purchasing Section-head
Talaat Moustafa Group
10.2015 - 09.2018
- Forecasting levels of demand for services and products to meet the business needs and keeping a constant check on stock levels.
- Conducting research to ascertain the best products and suppliers in terms of best value, delivery schedules and quality.
- Liaising between suppliers, manufacturers, relevant internal departments, and customers.
- Identifying potential suppliers, visiting existing suppliers, and building and maintaining good relationships with them.
- Negotiating and agreeing contracts and monitoring their progress, checking the quality of service provided, Processing payments and invoices.
- Keeping contract files and using them as reference for the future.
- Forecasting price trends and their impact on future activities.
- Giving presentations about market analysis and possible growth.
- Developing an organization's purchasing strategy.
- Producing reports and statistics using computer software.
- Evaluating bids and making recommendations based on commercial and technical factors.
- Ensuring suppliers are aware of business objectives.
- Attending meetings and trade conferences.
- Training and supervising the work of other members of staff.
Regional procurement engineer
ARCHIRODON (S.A.E.)
01.2014 - 09.2015
- Reviewing all the comparative statements from all the sites in the Middle East area (gulf area- Africa- far east)
- Preparing RFQs for all kinds of materials
- Issue general POs (incl. equipment, spare parts, etc…), entailing all procurement process of contacting vendors to obtain quotations, then comparison and issuing of PO to selected vendor upon negotiation of terms.
- Train personnel in Cairo office on Apics, whenever required.
- Follow up with the department's accounting coordinator regarding purchase orders/NTPs issued, and relevant payments status at accounting department (whether still in process at accounting or payment complete).
- Coordinator should meet with the accounting coordinator at least once a week to identify issues/problems with vendor payments. The coordinator then relays these issues to the logistics manager, which may affect/delay delivery.
- Follow up with the logistics department regarding vendor shipping issues. Coordinator should attend the weekly workload report meeting, identify issues/problems with the logistics manager and then relay these issues to the appropriate procurement engineer. The coordinator is responsible that all issues are resolved as quickly as possible.
- Interaction with project coordinators & jobsite personnel, by providing them with BOM relevant information (dates of receipt of BOM updates, procurement/shipping status of material items, etc.), or by performing fast track general requests (such as issuing urgent POs of spare parts or equipment
Procurement Engineer
Orascom-Be six
04.2013 - 12.2013
- Project: Mall of Egypt
- Mall of Egypt is a project of 2.5 Billion EGP It contains:
- Snow Park
- Mall
- Plaza car park
- 66 KV substations
- Family entertainment center FEC
- Scope of work:
- Cables (All cables)
- BMS
- Fire alarm
- CCTV
- Access control
- Public address
Electrical procurement engineer
Contract international
10.2011 - 04.2013
- Prepare request for quotes during bid and procurement stages.
- Assist with material procurement for various projects.
- Assist in preparing technical submittals for client review.
- Responsible for meeting budget requirements & purchasing the correct materials for each division (elec.).
- Coordinate BOMs with estimating dept. to ensure completeness, accuracy and quality.
- Coordinate with design dept. to ensure that material procured matches design requirements and vice versa.
- Coordinate with QC dept. to make sure the provided material meet the project technical documents.
- Assist procurement engineers in solving higher level problems (ones which do not require the manager's assistance).
- Prepare and analyze request for quotes, develop vendor quote analysis and determine source.
- Perform market research and source new manufacturers & vendors.
- Coordinate and approve technical submittals for client review.
- Support overseas personnel with technical assistance; especially during start-up and training of equipment & systems.
- In case of revisions, work entails comparison versus existing BOM on compass, by first performing comparison using excel spreadsheet listing current compass BOM, versus BOM update to show BOM differences. Upon comparison completion, compass is updated for BOM adjustments.
- Site request/comments are directly reflected on compass.
- Produce procurement department reports:
- BOM status of procurement and shipping: exporting and adjusting BOM and shipping status from compass to excel for use by CI office and site personnel. (Weekly)
- Budget status update: ensuring listing of budget per purchase order issued and, consequently, producing report stating current overall procurement performance versus budget. (weekly)
- Project follow-up reports: producing from compass the not NTP'd materials report filtered out by trade (A/E/Mmand office (CAI/ARL/KAB) (weekly)
- BOM summary report: updating BOM tracking log, stating dates of BOM(s) received, update start on compass, and update completion on compass. (occasional)
- Procurement engineers' performance: performance of each procurement engineer (in terms of total
- PO'd vs. relevant budget and resulting savings). (occasional)
- End-of-year purchase orders' statistics: producing statistics for POs issued within year, sorted out by country of origin & currency versus number of POs and values.
- Miscellaneous reports: producing miscellaneous procurement/status related reports such as total.
- Orascom Pos vs. total relative issued POs (yearly)
- Issue general POs (incl. equipment, spare parts, etc…), entailing all procurement process of contacting vendors to obtain quotations, then comparison and issuing of PO to selected vendor upon negotiation of terms.
- Follow up with the logistics department regarding vendor shipping issues. Coordinator should attend the weekly workload report meeting, identify issues/problems with the logistics manager and then relay these issues to the appropriate procurement engineer. The coordinator is responsible that all issues are resolved as quickly as possible.
- Interaction with project coordinators & jobsite personnel, by providing them with BOM relevant information (dates of receipt of BOM updates, procurement/shipping status of material items, etc.), or by performing fast track general requests (such as issuing urgent POs of spare parts or equipment).
- (An international U.S. construction firm its projects cover several areas including military, industrial, water and waste water, power transition and generation, and institutional facilities. Our clients include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the USAID, and the U.S. State Department.)
Electrical design and site supervision Engineer
Mak consultant Engineers
10.2009 - 10.2011
- Supervision Projects:
- El Mostakbl Mall – Cairo.
- Coptic Culture Center.
- Al Tarek Show Room (Mall of Arabia).
- Villa Fateen in Cairo (elktameya heights).
- El Yasmin Residential Compound.
- Design Projects:
- Glass Factory – Sadat City.
- Taghlif Factory (6 October).
- National Democratic Party.
- Sofiplast Factory.
- Mobiserve Head Quarte
Site Engineer
Orascom housing communities (OHC) at Haram city project
10.2007 - 10.2009
- Installation of all electrical systems for the next buildings (school -cinema- offices building – clinics building – El-Malaika factory (Mr. Samih’s swearers wife factory)- mosque) like (lighting system- power system –telephone system -data system –fire alarm system - sound system &
- Termination of power panels of each building)
- Switchgear station of zones A&B
- Medium voltage loop cables between transformers
- Termination of the transformer of service area and its Ring Main Unit (RMU) and its Main Distribution Board.
- Raise lighting poles of zone A2(about 300 poles (12mt double.,10mt., 6mt. poles))
- Make all the connections, terminations, joints and end points of medium voltage and low voltage cables.
- Low voltage cables to each building
Education
B.Sc. - electrical power & machines
05-2007
- Section: electrical power & machines.
- Grade: accepted
- Project: Electrification of tourism village
- GPA: Excellent
Skills
Skills: ACAD, Dilux, Graphics and multimedia manipulating & other engineering computer programs office 2013
Languages: Fluent Arabic& English written and spoken
Supplier relationship management
Price negotiation
Strategic sourcing
Global procurement
Cost analysis
E-procurement systems
Vendor acquisition
Vendor sourcing
MS office
Relationship building
Analytical thinking
Training
- As a site engineer at Orascom construction industries Company (Site: Dar el Tahrir, Ramses St. elgomhoria Newspaper building, all electrical systems was applied there) starting: 15 June 2002 till 15 December 2002
- 1 month & half training at wadi Degla club(2nd stage / British school) starting: 30 June 2003
- 2 months at Siemens Company, smart village (The nation organization of post building) starting: 30 June 2006
- OSHA safety workshop at BLI.
Timeline
Head of procurement - Reliance development
07.2025 - Current
Procurement manager - Sterling and Wilson
09.2018 - 06.2025
Electrical and IT purchasing Section-head - Talaat Moustafa Group
10.2015 - 09.2018
Regional procurement engineer - ARCHIRODON (S.A.E.)
01.2014 - 09.2015
Procurement Engineer - Orascom-Be six
04.2013 - 12.2013
Electrical procurement engineer - Contract international
10.2011 - 04.2013
Electrical design and site supervision Engineer - Mak consultant Engineers
10.2009 - 10.2011
Site Engineer - Orascom housing communities (OHC) at Haram city project
10.2007 - 10.2009
Helwan University - B.Sc., electrical power & machines