Commercial Manager targeting selected countries

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Skills keywords: budgets, business plan, contracts, mechanical engineer, procurement

Short Bio:

1. Prepared company Business Plan
2. Prepared, Monitor and Controlling of Budgets.
3. Prepared and maintained commercial department procedures.
4. Purchased parts for the maintenance, operation, engineering and IT departments for power plants.
5. Managed all aspects of RFQ, the competitive bidding process and the negotiation and award of purchase orders/contracts to vendors across the world.
6. Optimizing inventory levels, reducing holding costs and parts variety.

Current location:  Muscat Governorate, Oman - View on map

Nationality: Canadian and Pakista

Preferred Sector of Employment:  Oil, Gas and Energy, other

Spoken languages: english, Urdu

Location I am interested in working: Anywhere

Education/Qualifications

 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from NED University of Engineering & Technology in 1992

 Successful completion of courses on:
Negotiating, Implementing & Managing Successful Contracts Lead Auditor of EMS 1401:2004
PASS/FDM (Plant Accounting and Settlement System) Lead Auditor of OHSAS 18001:2007
Management Skills and Conflict Management Lead Auditor of ISO 9001:2000.
Computer Skill: MS Office, Maximo, Engica, AutoCAD, MS. Project, Power Point

Work Experience

Aug. 2012 to Present
Commercial Manager Phoenix Operation and Maintenance Company
A Project of Marubeni Power Asset Management Limited, Muscat, Oman

A joint venture company with 50% share of Marubeni owning power plants in the Eastern Province of Oman with a capacity of 2000 MW. As Commercial Manager my key responsibilities are:

• Preparation of company Business Plan and Monthly Reports.

• Preparation and monitoring of Plant’s operation, maintenance, commercial, HR & Admin Budgets

• Managing accounts for O&M Company including all Payable/Receivable.

• Verifying and authorization of company Payroll and all supplier payments.

• Managing Plant Accounting and Settlement System (PASS). Tariff calculations with complex thermodynamic models of the plant (FDM).

• Successfully partnered with senior management to meet organizational needs

• Delivered various monthly reports (both qualitative and quantitative) on time to management for timely decision making

• Purchased parts for the maintenance, operation, technical and IT departments.

• Managed all aspects of RFQ, the competitive bidding process and the negotiation and award of purchase orders/contracts to vendors across the world.

• Manage the acquisition of goods and services to cost, quality and timescales

• Negotiated major contracts and purchases.

• Development of alternative local sources for imported materials which helps in cost saving.

• Establishing strategic alliances/tie-ups with financially strong and reliable suppliers.

• Prepared and maintained procedures for commercial department

• Lead a team of personnel and managed all sectional activities to deliver desired service level, trained them and supervise their work and evaluation.

• Instilled team spirit in all team members for highly diversified and multi-cultural workforce.

2006 – 2012
Commercial Team Leader
Tihama Power Generation Company Limited
A Project of International Power – GDF Suez, Saudi Arabia

A joint venture between International Power – GDF Suez (60%) and Saudi Oger (40%) owning four power plants in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia (all power plants situated in different SAUDI ARAMCO premises) with a combined capacity of over 1000 MW and 4410 (1000 lb/hr) equivalent 535 MW. As Commercial Team Leader my key responsibilities are:

• Lead a team of personnel and managed all sectional activities to deliver desired service level, trained them and supervise their work and evaluation.

• Prepared and maintained commercial department procedures and Budgets.

• Delivered various quarterly, monthly & weekly reports

• Successfully partnered with senior management to meet organizational needs.

• Instilled team spirit in all team members for highly diversified and multi-cultural workforce.

• Manage the acquisition of goods and services for all four power plants to cost, quality and timescales

• Advise operational, maintenance and engineering staff on operational decisions (especially plant outages) that are most advantageous commercially for the organization.

• Successfully managed first Major Plant Overhauling outages (MI) of G.E’s 7FA & 7EA Series Gas Turbines in the region of META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa).

• Actively participated in Regional commercial network (META).

o Purchased parts for the maintenance, operation, engineering and IT departments for all the four power plants located in different Saudi Aramco premises in Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, totaling $10 to 15 million annually.

o Managed all aspects of RFQ, the competitive bidding process and the negotiation and award of purchase orders/contracts to vendors across the world.

o Development of alternative local sources for imported materials which helps in cost saving.

o Establishing strategic alliances/tie-ups with financially strong and reliable suppliers.

o Classified vendors on the basis of criteria such as cost, quality, on time delivery and credit facilities.

o Liaison with Ministry of Finance and Trades and custom authorities for duty refunds and getting approval for duty exemption of new items.

o Implemented systems to avoid situations like over-stocking or out-of-stock which influence operation and financial losses.

o Negotiated major contracts and purchases.

o Developed a vendor base for sustaining operations for all four power plants in this predominantly supplier’s market

o Optimizing inventory levels, reducing holding costs and parts variety.

o Verifies stock record computations against physical count of stock

2000 – 2006
Quality Assurance Coordinator
Roll Form Specialty, Division of Samuel-Manutech Inc., Ontario, Canada

• Co-ordinate and prepared sample submission packages PPAP, FMEA, APQP and update & maintained Process Control Plans

• Maintained and improved the quality system through analysis of data, identification of trends and development of recommendations.

• Audited, maintained, and implemented ISO 9001:2000 Quality System.

• Improved and developed quality procedures, quality plan and work instructions.

• Liaised with customers.

• Evaluating and analyzing process and product data for Cp & Cpk values

• Good working knowledge of AutoCAD 2002

Material Coordinator

• Ensuring appropriate procurement of all production, construction and maintenance materials. Sourcing and rate negotiation of material locally and worldwide with proper delivery time and quality.

• Worked with teams to implement manufacturing capacity planning with suppliers to realize supply chain cost savings including improved availability, transportation cost savings and life cycle improvements.

• Developed Engineering Master and training material and system documentation to support new ERP system implementation.

• Acted as lead for implementation of procurement module of ERP system

• Develop stocking levels for parts to support machine populations that will maximize the company’s ROI (return of investment).

• Conduct and supervise annual physical inventory.

1993 – 2000
Asst. Manager Commercial & Coordination Pakland Cement Limited, Karachi, Pakistan

Promoted rapidly during Five years career with Pakland Cement, through a series of increasingly responsible Project Planning & costing Engineer’s position to a final assignment as Assistant Manager Commercial & Coordination; As Asst. Manager Commercial & Coordination my responsibilities / accomplishments are:

• Restructured / rationalized procurement section resulting in improved service level

• Incorporated procedures to handle Contracts and Purchase Orders

• Prepared tender document, bill of quantity and scope of work

• Evaluated contract documents both technical and commercial aspects

• Identified, developed and sustained new and current supplier partnerships

• Prepared and issued RFQ for goods and services and assessed and awarded orders through competitive bidding and negotiation