Shafeeq Syedali

Procurement Manager

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Kitchener, WaterlooMember since September 14, 2023

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Electrical and electronics engineer, having 14+ years of overall experience in various roles such as Project

Procurement, Strategic Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Category / Commodity management, Vendor

Management, Supply Chain Management, Project Planning, Project Management and Sales & Marketing.

Strong expertise in procurement of materials & services for Factories / Manufacturing units and Project segments

(Government Utilities & Private Industrial Customers).

 Hands on experience in procurement of Electrical, Electronics & Mechanical equipment in Energy Sector.

 Projects sectors: Experienced in Data Centers, Renewable (Solar), Sub Stations, Metro, Ports, Airports,

Energy Transmission and Distribution projects.

Experience

Siemens Ltd (India) ►Procurement Manager – Categories/Commodities & Projects 05/2019 to 08/2023

 Responsible for Category/Commodity management of Power & Distribution Transformers, Low & high-tension

Cables, Battery Energy Storage Solutions (BESS), Current Transformers, Batteries, Battery Chargers at India level (For 4 Manufacturing units and 2 Project segments).

 Developing and Implementing commodity strategies to ensure long-term and sustainable agreement to minimize the overall cost and ensuring reliable on-time supply of materials in the required quality.

 Procurement of Recurrent & Tailor-made technical specification materials.

 Developing cost breakdown analysis tools for negotiation.

 Volume of the business handled (130 million CAD)

Key Activities

 Creating Strategy Sourcing Plans with Road maps based on Management /Stakeholder’s requirement.

 Analyzing the spends based on Category, Vendors & Volume wise.

 Potential supplier Identification, Qualification, Evaluation, Selection, development and Management.

 Deriving should-cost estimations by using Cost breakdowns analysis, Raw material trends & Historic Pricing.

 Negotiating and finalizing the Annual rates and creating the long-term Frame agreements.

 Lead, Train and Develop the Buyers and team members to achieve their potential.

 Supporting buyers in creating contractual Terms and condition for regular negotiation.

 Involving shortlisted suppliers in the early stage of product development/manufacturing process.

 Monitoring current market prices to minimize the overall costs.

 Creating performance parameters for suppliers, based on Quality, Price, Delivery commitments & Service.

 Periodic performance evaluation and monitoring of supplier and sharing reports to management.

 Releasing Market information /intelligent report to team on monthly basis.

 Monitoring current product’s Market prices.

 Risk Monitoring /Analyzing and Creating Risk Mitigations Plans.

 Creating and Maintaining Supplier Data Base.

 Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to suppliers for assigned commodity (Orders & resolution of major issues).

 Arranging cost-analysis workshops, innovation workshops and concept competitions with key suppliers.

Achievements & Recognition:

 Created annual rate contracts for cables, with successful yearly price reduction of 7% (appx 4.5 million CAD reduction).

 Successfully developed new vendors in transformer commodity for Data center projects, which resulted in winning of 72.5 million CAD worth orders.

 Frame agreements were created with major suppliers for 120 days payment terms.

 Implemented proposal approval system from manual to online for EA project Unit.

 Successfully executed Tail Spend Management Project and reduced the number of vendors by 30%.

 Promoted from Project Procurement Manager to Commodity Procurement Manager.

Schneider Electric Ltd (India) ► Deputy Procurement Manager – Projects 06/2014 to 05/2019

 Handled Project Procurement of Solar and Power distribution projects (66KV to 220KV level).

 Leaded the Solar procurement team of 5 buyers.

 Supported sales team by arranging best negotiated prices from vendor in bidding phase for winning the orders.

 Supported project team in executions phase with best contractual terms &conditions, prices and on time delivery.

 Volume of the business handled (100 million CAD).

Key Activities

 Bidding Phase: Activities starts from Prebid meeting with internal Stake holders, Strategy Sourcing Plans,

Support in preparing BOQ, Floating RFQ / RFI, arranging quotations, evaluation of quotation, technical meetings with suppliers, Comparisons, Negotiations and bid support back-to-back arrangements.

 Execution Phase: Strategy meetings with project and bidding team for further cost savings, re-negotiations,

creating purchase order, arranging drawings & technical datasheets for customer approval, scheduling inspection, issuing dispatch clearance, arranging good receipt notes from site and ensuring vendor’s payment.

Achievements & Recognition:

 Procured materials & services for solar projects (approx. 800MW) with overall 12% price reduction and on time delivery as committed to customer.

 Successfully executed 200MW project as a project Manager (In Special deputation).

 Implemented ERP system in the Solar Business Unit.

 Recognized as Champion in Effective category of 2018.

 Active member of Champion’s club in 2017.

 Recognized as High performer of 2016 & 2015.

Areva T&D (Alstom) Ltd (India) ► Engineer – Project procurement 08/2011 to 06/2014

 Responsible for Project Procurement of Sub Station and Power distribution project (66KV to 132KV level).

 Responsible for Vendor Identification & Selection & development.

 Responsible for Creating delivery schedule plans (L2 and L3 Schedules).

 Responsible for Logistics arrangement of Goods.