To leverage my 7+ years of team management, bidding and procurement, and expertise into a managerial purchasing position in a business-to-business environment.
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Barakat Talal Khreis
Address: UAE, Dubai
Mobile 1: +971 56 179 4099
Mobile 2: +971 56 211 2734
E-mail: b_khreis@yahoo.com
barakatkhreis@gmail.com
Personal Summary
Bid leader especially adept at drafting proposals and managing various projects in an efficient manner. Skilled at
applying knowledge of business development processes. Specialize in prioritizing projects to achieve meaningful cost-
effective results.
Detail-orientated and articulate Tender professional, highly adept in optimizing team performance, aligning diverse
agendas, opportunity identification. Possesses excellent leadership and communication skills, with strong work ethic
and drive for successful results.
Hardworking and capable bid and procurement leader with a track record of significantly reducing costs and also
improving a company’s processes and corporate purchasing programs. Having a proven ability to ensure that a
company enjoys a competitive edge when compared to their competitors by securing the best quality, price and terms
from suppliers.
Always delivering results against strategic objectives, whilst working within the organizations core values and beliefs.
Now looking for a new and challenging managerial position, one that will make best use of existing abilities and
knowledge and also further my career and professional development.
Core Qualifications
- Proficient in drafting proposals and preparing detailed bids for multiple projects
- Sound knowledge of bids and proposals pertaining to tech and construction industries
- Especially adept at global economic principles and client communications
- Solid understanding of placing bids for both private and public sector projects
- Skilled with the implementation of various transportation options
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and resolve unexpected issues
- Tender, proposal and contract development
- Business development and solutions
- Project management
- Familiar with MS Office applications
- Ability to work well in group settings
- Contract Negotiations
Objective
To leverage my 7+ years of team management, bidding and procurement, and expertise into a managerial purchasing
position in a business-to-business environment.
Career summary
9/2012-now Al-Raky Group of Companies – UNIPRO Oil Field Equipment’s LLC (High Tech Trading LLC)
Dubai, UAE
Bid & Procurement Department Leader
- Responsible for working closely with the selected supplier and managing the company’s
procurement activities.
- Providing leadership for the purchasing department and motivating staff to achieve maximum
performance and efficiency.
- Making sure that the purchasing department works within all of the companies Operational
Procedures.
- Responsible for dealing with anything relating to the ordering of materials, services and supplies
for the company.
Duties:
- Reviewed and analyzed bid proposals.
- Oversaw proposal team and organized periodic strategy meetings.
- Developed and implemented bid and proposal strategies.
- Evaluating technical requirements and assigning portions of the scope to various subcontractors
and suppliers.
- Reviewed final bid proposals for accuracy.
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- Managing and coordinating the outputs of our tendering support personnel towards achieving
the unit’s tendering goals.
- Developed effective external purchasing strategies.
- Worked with accounting department to verify budget availability.
- Conducting research via trade publication, the Internet, catalogues, and trade shows to identify
potential suppliers.
- Managing a team of 10 professional employees.
- Responsible for Order Placement Timing, Supply / Demand Alignment, Material Replenishment
and Supplier Performance.
- Monitoring delivery times to ensure they are on time.
- Ensuring the adequate supply of all required materials, components and equipment.
- Delivering cost savings for the company.
- Managing the procurement supplier relationships for the company.
- Developing relationships with distributors.
- Working to create and promote a safe working environment.
9/2010–9/2012 Alpha International Exchange Company
Irbid, Jordan
Sales Representative
Duties:
- Greeting clients and presenting a positive and friendly environment
- Database administrator and check all of the day process input in to company system to save all
process and invoices.
- Answering phone calls
- Creating money transfers by using a computer system
- Making sure no money is missing (large amounts are usually handled)
- Modifying money transfers
- Assisting clients with questions (Customer Service)
- Manage and organize database accordingly to corporate data administration policies and
standards in order to ensure that the information needs of the users are met.
- Administrating money and documenting it in Excel
- Overseeing staff training.
3/2010–8/2010 Arab Urban Development Institute (“AUDI”)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Technical Support
Duties:
- Involved in the support, maintenance and development of critical systems.
- Carrying out design, construction, review and defect analysis activities.
- Planning to develop a new system and website because we are looking for a modern and
flexible system to make it easy when employee using it and make a new website to make it
more flexible when somebody visited a website.
2009-2010 American Life of Insurance Company (“ALICO”)
Irbid, Jordan
- Worked in sales department to sell insurances, medical and life insurances contracts for
community.
Education and qualifications
2005–2009 Bachelor of Science in
Information Technology “IT” (Major)
Computer Information Systems “CIS” (Minor)
Al-Al Bait University Jordan
2008-2009 “MCPXP” Windows XP Troubleshooting
Al-Al Bait University Jordan
2010-2011 Oracle Certified Associative (“OCA”)
SQL*Plus & iSQL*Plus
PL/SQL
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Oracle Certified Professional (“OCP”)
Forms
Reports
2015 – 2015 Project Management Planning (“PMP”)
International Cambridge College
Professional Experience
Competencies:
- Encourages team working and skills sharing
- Acts at all times as an ambassador for Together
- Ability to critically evaluate business development opportunities
- Ability to plan workload considering conflicting priorities and deadlines
- Ability to work effectively to deadlines and support others to meet tight deadlines
- Resourceful and well organized.
- Extensive knowledge of purchase order systems and related software.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking and strategic skills.
Supply chain
- Extensive knowledge of coordinating all of the entities involved in a supply chain.
- Knowledge of managing returns and rejections professionally & promptly with suppliers.
- Extensive experience in the strategic planning and transportation of products.
- Experience of liaising with forwarders and overseas companies to arrange collections.
- Able to negotiating rates with local contractors and also international companies.
- Planning of procurement, production, inventory control, logistics and distribution.
Management
- Possessing creative problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to ensure that products are delivered in a good state and on time.
- Willingness to work unusual hours.
- Highly effective motivator with strong written and spoken communication skills.
- An ability to handle the pressures arising from having to meet deadlines and targets.
- Able to evaluate complex situations and find solutions for them.
- Having a passion for delivering excellent customer service in a cost effective way.
Personal
- Results orientated.
- Leadership and influencing skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Handling critical issues.
- Capable of making important and strategic decisions.
- Problem solving.
- Communication and interpersonal relations.
Key Skills
Team-Working
Excellent team player, considerate and non-judgemental of team member’s input and ideas. Aims to build
strong symbiotic relationships within a team environment to ensure the team’s performance is prioritised.
Self-Starter
Adept and competent at staring projects on own initiative. Works efficiently and effectively in a personal
environment with a common sense approach to dealing with issue. Has the ability to ask for assistance if
required or unsure.
Communication
Exceptional communicational skills. Can make people comfortable to communicate freely and openly. Can
communicate difficult and abstract ideas with ease.
Organisational
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A proficient organizer can multi-task multiple projects to strict deadlines. Works best in a highly organized
environment. Worked extracurricular on large projects liaising with organisations and project managing
ensuring the team worked efficiently.
Languages
English : Excellent read and written and very good spoken.
French : Reading and writing.
Arabic : Native Language.
Personal detail
Date of birth : August 09th
, 1986
Place of birth : Irbid - Jordan
Gender : Male
Marital state : Single
Nationality : Jordanian
Other Skills
Very good in Oracle and Oracle PL/SQL.
Ability to produce clear documented and commented code.
Knowledge in Oracle database design and development.
Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL.
Development experience in Configuration models, rules, and extensions.
Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, database design and tuning.
Knowledge of object orientated analysis and design techniques.
References are available on request