Mohamed Yusif - CIPM

Certified Senior Procurement Specialist (CIPM Holder) with over 10 years of Procurement related experience. Recognized as an outstanding team player with excellent problem solving and communication skills. Extremely detail oriented, with a positive and upbeat personality.

Senior Foreign & Technical Procurement Specialist                                                            Feb 2020 - Present

EGYPTAIR Holding Company Cairo, Egypt                                                                                              

    Industry: Airlines/Aviation

• Review and coordinates in requisitions and specifications.
• Participate in specifications preparation, and secures bids/proposals.
• Forecast long & short-range marketpotential for management analysis.
• Sourcing new potential suppliers and ensuring that the purchased products and materials meet the required technical specifications.
• Sourcing for global suppliers for international purchases.
• Prepare reports and maintaining accurate inventory and procurement records.
• Evaluate the suppliers’ performances.
• Conduct market and product research and cost analysis.
• Advise user department representatives on purchase methods and alternate products and may recommend substitutes.
• Prepare formal invitations for bids processes (Tenders, Bargainings and Direct Orders) and requests for quotations, including required special terms and conditions, performance, and technical criteria.
• Solicit quotations and bids, negotiates prices, terms and conditions in contracts and quotations, and originates purchase orders.
• Ensure that contracts’ terms and conditions are in line with the organization’s policies and are written in legal form.
• Make award determinations.
• Ensure timely deliveries and resolving any supply issues or discrepancies
• Inspect and evaluating the quality of purchased items and correcting shortcomings.
• Resolve discrepancies and invoices problems.
• Correspond and communicates with suppliers and departments regarding services and complaints.
• Review and updating the list of contracts and keeping track of their renewal dates.
• Recommend new or revised purchasing long and short-term strategies and procedures.
• Assist Procurement Manager in making presentations to groups.
• Serve as advisor to subordinate buyers on unusual or difficult policy problems.
• May be required to perform the functions of the lower level classes in this series.
• Provide responsive, high quality service to the organization employees, representatives of outside agencies and members of the public by providing accurate, complete and up-to-date information, in a courteous, efficient and timely manner.
• Participate in hiring of new purchasing staff and training them.
• Act as chairperson of standards committee for countywide use of specified items; recommends review of revised purchasing procedures; serves on other purchasing related committees.

Senior Procurement Specialist                                                                       Sep 2018 - Feb 2020

ARGAS - Arabian Geophysical & Surveying Co.

     Industry: Oil and Gas Exploration

• Prepared complex purchasing assignments, vendors’ selection and pricing comparisons
• Acquired of goods or materialsfor the entire organization
• Negotiated with vendors to obtain optimumquality, cost and terms
• Identified value-added opportunities and cost savingsin the procurement process
• Coordinated with user departments & suppliers concerning the purchasing scope of work for jobs or projectsassigned
• Monitored and coordinated deliveries of items between suppliers to ensure that all items are deliveredto site or store on time
• Planned and managedinventory levels of materials or products
• Purchased and issued orders in accordance with adequate details& specifications requirements
• Handled & monitored of claims to factories & vendors for detectives, shortages and missing items.
• Maintained complete updatedpurchasing records, data and pricingin the ERP system.
• Ensured competent qualityexecution of all regular purchasing duties and administrative works.
• Participated to businessproductivity by providing reliable and competitive offers at all time
• Sourced, selected and negotiated for the entire purchase packagein terms of quality,price, terms, deliveries and services with suppliers.
• Forecasted long & short-range marketpotential for management analysis.

Foreign & Technical Purchasing Specialist                                                                 Nov 2011 – Sep 2018

EGYPTAIR HoldingCompany Cairo, Egypt

     Industry: Airlines/Aviation

• Prepare and issue requests for quotations to suppliers to obtain prices according to sales offers or company requirements.
• Review Performa invoices prices against suppliers’ price list to ensure that prices and discounts are matching with company agreement and order budget.
• Purchase, locate suitable products, new markets, suppliers, and process purchase requisitions.
• Responsible for suppliers and subcontractors coordination.
• Prepare technical and commercial data and information for obtaining quotations.
• Prepare and follow up approvals for project submittals.
• Obtain samples and follow-up sample approvals by creating a database for all material and coded submittals.
• Produce Materials Schedules with required lead times for take-off, quotation, cost appraisal, and P.O with delivery periods.
• Receive Purchase Request.
• Prepare bid tabulation.
• Initiate insurance cover.
• Review Purchase Orders, follows up and ensures timely purchase and arrival of goods.

Ain Shams University - Faculty of Arts- Department of English Language and Literature.