Reem El Sayed Ahmed Abu Gheida

* Company Overview: Soft drinks company.

* Lead and manage the procurement team, providing strategic support in negotiating prices for raw materials, packaging materials, spare parts, marketing activities, and services, while ensuring alignment with company standards for quality and cost-efficiency.

* Continuously research and evaluate alternative sources of supply to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage through cost leadership and product/service differentiation.

Oversee pricing control across all procurement categories, ensuring optimal cost management. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of both local and international suppliers and distributors, and foster strong, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.

* Manage all aspects of foreign purchasing and import activities. Develop, implement, and enforce procurement policies, procedures, and processes tailored to the Egyptian Procurement Team.

* Proactively resolve supply chain issues to ensure uninterrupted material availability for production lines. Optimize logistics operations to reduce costs and enhance efficiency.

* Participate in global workshops to stay aligned with the Global procurement practices.

* Monitor and follow up on contracts with providers of services, materials, and spare parts.

* Report directly to the Global Procurement Management team in Peru, collaborating closely with them to maximize cost savings and value for the company.

* Disseminate new directives and initiatives from Global Procurement Management to the local team, ensuring full compliance with the AJE Global Way.

• Company Overview: Soft drinks company.
• Negotiate prices of purchases (Spare parts, Logistics, Marketing and all indirect purchases & services) to ensure lowest cost consistent with company standards for quality products.
• Continually research alternate resources for materials in order to ensure sustainable competitive advantage by cost leadership and differentiation.
• Maintain knowledge of the local suppliers and distributors and build constructive relationships.
• Foreign Purchasing & importing.
• Create and implement rules regulations and processes for purchasing.
• Handling logistics & reduce its cost.
• Export.
• Follow up contracts of providers of (services, materials or spare parts).
• Communicate with the corporate monthly & follow up the global deals with global suppliers.
• Contracting
• Attend Global Work Shops
• Manage the Egyptian procurement team & solve all their problems.

• Supervise and coordinate the activities of the purchasing team.
• Review and approve purchase orders and requisitions for goods and services.
• Develop and maintain relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Evaluate supplier performance and negotiate contracts, prices, and terms.
• Monitor inventory levels and coordinate with warehouse and production teams to ensure timely procurement.
• Analyze market trends and supplier performance to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with company procurement policies, procedures, and ethical standards.
• Assist in the development and implementation of purchasing strategies.
• Prepare reports on purchasing metrics, cost analyses, and forecasts.
• Train, mentor, and evaluate staff performance.

• Negotiate purchases to ensure lowest costs for automation spare parts.
• Continually research alternate suppliers of automation & spare parts foreign and local.
• Maintain knowledge of the local representatives and distributors and build constructive relationships.
• Create and implement rules regulations and processes for purchasing.
• Handling logistics & reduce its cost.
• Foreign purchasing & importing.
• Export.
• Attending governmental tenders & prepare tenders offers.

• Negotiate purchases to ensure lowest prices for packing & packaging machines, printing machines, carton machines, glue & die cutting machines & their supplies.
• Continually research alternate foreign providers for machines & their supplies in order to ensure the most competitive pricing from the authorized international exhibitions.
• Maintain knowledge & develop strong partnership with foreign suppliers.
• Extend our agencies list & legalize the contracts of agencies.
• Foreign purchases & handling importing process.
• Handling logistics process & communicate with the bank to issue form 4.
• Export.