Hussain Aman

Senior Procurement Category Manager @ Arla Foods

About

Procurement and strategic sourcing professional qualified with Chartered Procurement and Supply Chain (CIPS) attaining a multiple work experience across the STP (source to pay process) for FMCG environment (Make, Pack, & Ship) in Procurement and strategic sourcing fulfilling integrated supply chain needs with integrated lean Six Sigma (IL6S) global lead site level focusing on zero loses and higher level of productivity, with hands on experience to manage the procurements of Raw materials, commodities, CAPEX, services, Facility management MROs, and direct materials such as packaging materials including Paper, Plastics, Glass & Rigids, and others, as well as raw materials including commodities, dairies, sugar, flavors and chemicals. Currently leading a regional sourcing role covering different countries across Middle East, Africa & Pakistan to deliver strategic sourcing for critical direct packaging materials to production. Performing supply market analysis, Business continuity plans, market and trends intelligence, and supplier relationship management, with high Strategic thinking, risk management, & project management capabilities. With main objectives of achieving added value to the supply chain through breakthrough savings, Innovation, lean supply, agile supply and value engineering/ analysis techniques by managing stakeholders and suppliers needs and expectations. My previous role was leading the procurement for raw material Food ingredients and Commodities strategic sourcing for global organization with over USD 100 MM annual Spend. Professional in SAP as a super user and Center of excellence for procurement department, to ensure compliance, train stakeholders, improve procurement process efficiency and deploy procurement policies.

Country

Bahrain

City

Northern Governorate

Industry

Dairy

Skill

Sourcing, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Continuous Improvement, Supply Chain, Packaging, Procurement, SAP, Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Production Planning, Six Sigma

Experience

Senior Procurement Category Manager

Arla Foods

2023-10 - Present · 3 yrs

Muharraq Governorate, Bahrain

Procurement Category Manager

Arla Foods

2020-4 - 2023-10 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Muharraq Area, Bahrain

MENA Direct Materials (Raw and Pack) Procurement Category Manager

Procurement Category Buyer

Arla Foods

2019-5 - 2020-4 · 1 yr

Sourcing Specialist Packaging rigids procurement , Middle East & Africa

Mondelēz International

2017-1 - 2019-5 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Bahrain

Procurement Specialist Raw Materials

Mondelēz International

2015-4 - 2016-12 · 1 yr 9 mos

Bahrain

Managing annual spend of over 100 million dollars by establishing and implementing global sourcing strategies for Commodities including diaries and Sugar, and ingredients such as colors, flavors, citrics, phosphates and others.

Packaging Materials Buyer

Mondelēz International

2014-1 - 2015-3 · 1 yr 3 mos

Bahrain

As Packaging Materials Buyer, I am performing the following tasks: Managing annual spend of 45 million dollars for all packaging materials relate to cheese and powder beverages, such as cartoons & papers shippers ( RSC/Wraparound), duplex boxes, labels ... etc. Flexible materials such as lamination duplex and triplex, monolayer shrink sleeves, stretch wrappers, Glass jars, aluminum cans, Twist of caps, Trivac caps, blow molded HDPE containers, injected mold caps, multiple layers bottles, Performing the strategic sourcing for long terms and short terms agreement and contracts with continues improvement and unit price adaptation as per materials global price indexes and annual unit price reduction. Performing statistical and analytical reports such, Materials Cost Update considering the unit price adaptation and unit price reduction for annual budgeting purpose, weighted average payment terms, productivity .... etc. Performing annual objectives of price reduction, payment terms improving, materials continues improvement, sourcing leverage/localization.... etc. Coordinating between R&D, marketing, suppliers, and internal stakeholders for development projects and product change related to packaging materials

Indirect Materials & services Bahrain, & CAPEX sourcing KSA

Mondelēz International

2012-6 - 2013-12 · 1 yr 7 mos

Bahrain

As Indirect Materials and Services Buyer Bahrain, CAPEX strategic sourcing Saudi (June 2012 - December 2013) Managing Buying and contracting for all services related to machines, equipment’s, facility management, OPEX, CAPEX, and other purchase related to Bahrain Plant. In addition to that, I was managing CAPEX sourcing for manufacturing lines related to KSA Dammam Plant. Key Tasks, Achieving year on year savings, improving cash conversion cycle and payment terms. Strategic CAPEX sourcing with the principles of line of future and IL6S for Bahrain and Saudi plants. Using SAP for daily transactions and purchase orders issuance, and performing a key user role for SAP for Bahrain plant.

Field Engineer

SLB

2012-1 - 2012-6 · 6 mos

Bahrain

Field engineer in well integrity technology department. Perform cementing and pumping services and construction services in Bahrain oil field for oil wells