Mohammed Alzahrani, MSc, CPPM, PMP

Plays a pivotal role in the transformation and optimization of procurement department. Responsibilities span, strategy development, policy and process development, governance assurance, internal audit, and performance reporting. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with organization's goals. Key Responsibilities: - Successfully created and executed a comprehensive procurement transformation strategy. Contributing to building the strategic vision and operating model for the procurement department. - Developed and maintained procurement policies, processes, and templates. Continuously seek opportunities for improvement and optimization. - Ensure governance and adherence to procurement policies, Performing self-review internal audit tasks. - Submitted detailed performance reports to procurement management, including statistics on vendors, RFPs, tenders, and contracts. Maintaining a keen focus on key performance indicators (KPIs) and their alignment with organizational strategy. - Conducted periodic review meetings of procurement systems with IT and business teams, providing insights and suggestions for enhancements to current systems, including SAP ERP and SAP Ariba, to streamline and improve procurement process. - Created business plans, including communication plan, business continuity plan, and risk management plan. - Continuously improved stakeholder satisfaction, by preparing questionnaires, analyzing results, and suggesting areas for improvement.

* Key Accomplishments: - Ensured safekeeping, integrity, and availability of physical currency. - Overseed SAMA vault staff, empowered team, and established clear roles and responsibilities to enforce segregation of duties and dual-control principles across all operations. - Ensured uninterrupted cash supply to SAMA branches and commercial banks. - Maintained accurate records of banknotes and coins. - Worked on two integrated systems including SAP and material handling systems (VMS). - Ensured compliance with internal and external audit and inspection requirements. - Verified and approved incoming and outgoing financial transactions of SAMA vault. - Overseed the physical movement of banknote and coin boxes from and to main SAMA vault. - Managed cash compensation requests for unfit and damaged banknotes. - Overseed destruction of unfit notes according to approved destruction methods. - Identified and mitigated risks and implemented incident response plan and Business continuity plan.

* The role was focused on evaluating and selecting vendors for various projects and contracts. This position involved reviewing technical and commercial proposals, meeting with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business needs, negotiating with vendors for the best value, and recommending contract awards. * Key Accomplishments: - Effectively reviewed and assessed technical and commercial proposals submitted by bidders, ensuring that they met the organization's requirements and standards. - Actively engaged with stakeholders and relevant departments to review proposals, ensuring that they aligned with business needs and objectives. This collaboration led to better-informed decisions. - Performed negotiation sessions with potential vendors to secure the best value for money, resulting in cost-effective contracts and better utilization of resources. - Prepared and submitted contract-awarding recommendations based on a thorough evaluation process, ensuring that contracts were awarded to the most suitable and qualified vendors. - Regularly reported on the status of tenders received by the committee, providing transparency and accountability in the vendor selection process.

* Responsible for enhancing project management practices and ensuring alignment with organization's strategic goals. This encompassed overseeing project portfolio, guiding new initiatives, refining processes, ensuring governance, providing team support, and promoting collaboration with various stakeholders. * Key Accomplishments: - Ensured that new initiatives were closely aligned with organization's strategic objectives, emphasizing the clarity of project scope and business requirements, which facilitated smoother execution. - Successfully developed and maintained a robust project management governance framework, ensuring that projects adhered to standardized best practices and guidelines. - Reviewed and updated project management processes, resulting in increased efficiency, reduced bottlenecks, and improved project delivery timelines. - Effectively monitored and reported on the status of the project portfolio, providing stakeholders with valuable insights into project progress and potential challenges. - Offered valuable support and coaching to PMO team and project managers, contributing to the project management community's professional development and skill enhancement. - Successfully fostered alignment with a variety of stakeholders, including Strategy, Finance, Procurement and Vendor Management, Risk, Process and Quality and Change Management teams, which promoted effective cross-functional collaboration and achieving project objectives in line with organizational priorities. - Implemented a comprehensive project portfolio management system that provided real-time visibility into project status, resource allocation, and financial metrics. This enhancement allowed for better decision-making, risk mitigation, and resource optimization across the organization's project portfolio.

* The role revolved around closely monitoring and managing project and program health, overseeing initiatives and projects within the organization’s portfolio, and facilitating knowledge transfer. * Key Accomplishments: - Maintained active communication with project managers, regularly receiving project status reports and ensuring timely updates on project progress and challenges. - Assessed the health status of projects and programs, identifying issues and areas for improvement. These assessments provided valuable insights for project success. - Successfully managed specific initiatives and projects, ensuring their alignment with organizational goals and adherence to established project management standards. - Supported project managers in knowledge transfer, ensuring that best practices and lessons learned were shared among project teams, enhancing overall project management competence.

* The focus was on the examination and improvement of internal policies and business processes. Additionally, the responsibility included creating and reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to process and quality performance within the organization. *Key Accomplishments: - Developed and revised internal policies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices. The refined policies were critical in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in the organization's operations. - Undertook the task of designing and restructuring business processes to enhance workflow efficiency, reduce redundancies, and streamline operations. These process improvements resulted in cost savings and improved service delivery. - Formulated Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for process and quality, providing a structured framework for measuring performance. - Regularly produced reports on the performance of process and quality KPIs. The reports offered valuable insights and data-driven information, enabling the organization to monitor progress and make informed decisions to improve processes.