Mohab Nazmy
Cairo,Egypt
Summary
Strategic Procurement Leader with extensive experience driving end-to-end sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, and large-scale contract negotiations across complex supply chains. Proven track record of delivering substantial cost savings, strengthening supplier networks, and improving operational efficiency through data-driven decision making and advanced ERP systems. Recognized for leading high-performing teams, mitigating supply chain risks, and implementing resilient procurement strategies in dynamic market environments. Adept at aligning procurement operations with corporate objectives, ensuring sustainable sourcing, compliance, and long-term value creation for the organization
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior Procurement Manager
TAQA Arabia
Cairo, Cairo Governorate
2025.10 - Current
- Responsible for procurement and logistics teams across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
- Led procurement of capital expenditures and spare parts for gas, water, and power sectors.
- Develop new KPIs for team members.
- Coordinated annual budgeting processes for accurate financial forecasts.
- Facilitated vendor evaluation system to enhance performance metrics.
- Conducted supplier audits to verify compliance with quality standards.
- Participated in new mega projects overseas and ensured timely delivery.
- Encouraged team to achieve over 11% cost savings and improved cash payment cycle by 17 days.
Head of Procurement & Warehouse
United Tobacco Company-Philip Morris
Cairo, Egypt
2023.05 - 2025.09
- Oversaw procurement process from start to finish.
- Achieved savings over than 7% on annual spend.
- Negotiated contracts with suppliers to lower material costs and extend payment terms.
- Built relationships with suppliers to improve lead time.
- Reduced warehouse damage rate.
- Maintained relationships across different departments.
- Defined KPIs for procurement and logistics.
- Built teams for procurement and logistics operations.
- Developed policies in line with local regulations.
- Mitigated supply risks by localising strategic items.
- Established strong vendor relationships.
Senior Procurement Manager
Oriental Weavers Group
Cairo, EG
2022.07 - 2023.05
- Led procurement activities for multiple categories including raw materials, capital equipment and professional services.
- Supported procurement operations by managing sourcing for commodities, textiles, raw packaging, and spare parts.
- Helped conduct spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Reviewed supplier contracts for compliance with company policies.
- Monitored market conditions to inform pricing and purchasing decisions.
- Aided in the sourcing process for new vendors to secure quality products and services.
- Ensured timely delivery of goods through efficient logistics management.
- Achieved cost reductions with effective negotiation tactics.
- Coordinated annual budgeting process, ensuring accurate financial forecasting.
MENAPT Procurement Lead
SC Johnson
2013.10 - 2022.07
- Managed a spend of $70 M of raw & pack materials in MENAPT region.
- Applied insights of global economics and marketing to implement pricing strategies for next fiscal year.
- Manage end to end of regional spend of all direct materials.
- Overachieve all procurement targets, cost saving, cash, CFR.
- Partnered with the finance department to forecast procurement costs and align spending with financial goals, resulting in accurate budgeting and reduced variance.
- Build synergy between SCJ factories in MENAPT region.
- Handle Co-Manufacturing & Co-Packing suppliers in MENAPT Region.
- MENAP Procurement Stream Lead for SAP implementation.
- Implement Supplier relationship management scorecard (SRM) in MENAP Region.
- Identify and execute major cost saving projects to deliver OP that achieve corporate financial objectives.
- Overachieved cost saving target by average of 32% on yearly base for last 8.5 years.
- Increase credit payment days from 55 day up to 77 days.
- Working on localization of 45% of SCJ MENAP spend.
- Working with supply planning to ensure delivery security to reach up to 98%.
Supply Planner
IKEA
2010.04 - 2013.09
- Define, Analyze root causes of any lack of supply.
- Oversaw demand planning, purchasing, and logistics.
- Build up KPI for suppliers.
- Handle over than 20 suppliers in South East Europe, Turkey, and Egypt.
- Decrease landed cost by 3.7% of all articles shipped from Egypt to Germany.
- Increase filling rate of goods inside containers by 12% in order to get lowest landed cost of goods.
- Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods.
- Minimize transportation cost from EG to EU by about 10% in average.
Purchasing & Logistics Supervisor
PepsiCo
2007.01 - 2010.03
- Purchased of all Capex related to farming process.
- Purchased all the spare parts for tractors for both the farms and factories.
- Saved more than 28% of the total cost of purchasing of spare parts.
- Experienced in technical foreign purchasing.
- Created and lead the logistics department team.
- Responsible for all the transportation processes of potato and corn from and to the factories, Farms, and Cold Stores.
- Implemented the FIFO system in the cold stores to avoid any damage in the goods.
- Responsible for issuing yearly contracts with the Truck suppliers.
- Minimized the holding and storage cost by reducing the lead time of the supplier and by calculating the consumption rate of using the spare parts.
- Negotiated transportation and logistics contracts to reduce shipping costs.
Education
Diploma - Procurement
CIPS
2013.12 - 2014.02
Certified International Supply Chain Manager - undefined
Supply Chain Management Institute
EgyptBachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering, Industrial
American University
Egypt 2000.02 - 2006.02
Skills
- ERP systems management
- Team leadership
- Contract negotiation
- Vendor sourcing
- Problem solving
- Analytical thinking
Languages
Arabic - Excellent
English - Excellent
Software
- MS Office - Excellent
- SAP - Very Good
- Oracle - Very Good
- Global Purchasing System - Very Good
Timeline
Senior Procurement Manager
TAQA Arabia
2025.10 - Current
Head of Procurement & Warehouse
United Tobacco Company-Philip Morris
2023.05 - 2025.09
Senior Procurement Manager
Oriental Weavers Group
2022.07 - 2023.05
Diploma - Procurement
CIPS
2013.12 - 2014.02
MENAPT Procurement Lead
SC Johnson
2013.10 - 2022.07
Supply Planner
IKEA
2010.04 - 2013.09
Purchasing & Logistics Supervisor
PepsiCo
2007.01 - 2010.03
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering, Industrial
American University
2000.02 - 2006.02
Certified International Supply Chain Manager - undefined
Supply Chain Management Institute