Khaled Mohammad Al-Awad is currently the Procurement & Material Management Supervisor at Naufar in Doha, Qatar. He received a B.Sc. in Economics from Portland State University in 1990. Al-Awad has over 25 years of experience in procurement, purchasing, and inventory management roles in Qatar. He is skilled in contract negotiation, vendor relationship management, and ensuring efficient procurement processes. Previously, Al-Awad held several managerial roles in automotive sales and marketing.

1. Khaled Mohammad Al-Awad
M. 5554 3124, H. 4436 4717
P.O. Box: 6322
Doha, Qatar
carseat.alawad@gmail.com
Nationality: Qatari
Marital Status: Married
EDUCATION
• 1986 – 1990 B. Sc. Economics,
Portland State University,
Portland, Oregon - USA
EXPERIENCE
2016 (Present) Naufar
Based in Doha, Qatar, Naufar is a ground breaking new sanctuary for
wellness and treatment of behavioral disorders.
Procurement & Material Management Supervisor
Manage nearly every aspect of the purchasing of equipment,
materials, and products in a business.
Purchasing and Managing Inventory
• To support the Operational Procurement Manager in the delivery of a
strategy to co-ordinate best purchasing practice and maximize benefit to the
organization.
• Supervisory responsibility for the Operational Procurement team.
Negotiate Contracts & Maintain Client Relationship
• To manage the allocation of duties to team members to ensure that all
deadlines are met in accordance with agreed service levels.
• Manage preparation, implementation and execution of procurement
processes.
• Implement procurement processes to ensure efficiency, cost savings and
best practices.
• Work with finance team throughout the procurement cycle to assist with
forecasting and budgeting.
• Assist Vendor Manager in vendor selection, management and performance.
• Perform sourcing, liaising and negotiating with new and existing suppliers to
improve business.

2. • Re-negotiate contracts with suppliers to produce better savings and further
value for spend.
• Provide outstanding customer service and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Review supplies, works and services to ensure compliance with company
procedures and best procurement practice.
• Provide updates about procurement related progress and potential delays on
a daily basis to the Business Manager.
• Maintain positive working relationships with strategic suppliers to assure
cost, quality, and delivery targets are met.
• Analyze market and delivery trends so as to develop procurement
technologies and processes that support those trends.
Provide procurement support for all areas
• Promote good procurement practice supporting requester’s in allocate
budget areas
• Identify and deliver efficiency saving and improved contractual arrangements
• Supervise the purchase order processing activities
• Check validity of request to purchase
• Manage GR process
• Provide status report to the procurement manager
• Identify opportunities to add value to the procurement process
Inventory Control & Materials Handling
• Plans, organizes & implements inventory operations and procedures.
• Reviews daily inventory activity
• Maintains accurate inventory by using barcode.
• Maintains Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
• Works closely with the Inventory Control Specialists in all aspects of
warehouse functions to make sure all the items are in right place with right
barcode.
• Manage consumables, dangerous goods/chemicals
• Assist Finance staff by reviewing and approving invoices as required
2007 – 2015 MAERSK OIL - QATAR
Assistant Manager & Team Leader -Purchasing
• Handle Material Requests, enquiries and quotations to secure that
all requested material is purchased and delivered as ordered, in the
right quality, at the right time and as the best obtainable price.
• Evaluate quotations and negotiate price, terms and conditions with
vendors.
• Provide easy overview and commercial evaluation of quotations to
requisitioning departments

3. • Ensure that all activities duly observe Company guidelines,
procedures and values together with applicable laws, rules and
regulations.
• Participate in daily supervision and training of Purchase Assistants
and Trainees.
• Issue Purchase Orders and ensure that the orders and terms and
conditions are accepted by the vendors.
• Follow expediting and status of purchased goods and ensure that
vendors meet the required delivery schedules.
• Establish and maintain good contact to the market and keep
updated on developments in the market, and to establish the
necessary contact between requesters and vendors.
• Monitor the development of frequently purchased items in order to
establish agreements to ensure shortest possible delivery time at
the most competitive price.
• Prepare documentation for purchase orders.
• Co-ordinate preparation of bid documents.
• Performs commercial evaluation of bids.
• Call off contracts.
• Service contracts, Handling Facilities contracts, IT contracts,
Drilling, Safety Items.
• Material contracts, Handling operation items
• Project contracts
2005 - 2006 CarSeat (Private Business)
General Manager
• An Auto Shop selling high quality prestigious car accessories for
Range Rover, Porsche, Hammer, BMW, Mercedes and other cars.
Jan. 2003 - 2005 Al-Fardan Automobile (Land Rover Showroom)
Marketing & Sales Manager
• Developing strategies and action plans for marketing methods; and
procedures for sales, marketing & purchasing.
• Organizing and planning events for new launches’ ceremonies.
• Ensuring that policies and procedures are followed properly.
• Business planning and budgeting
• Planning advertising campaigns and following up agencies
connections for designing Ads, logos and any other press
materials.
• Supervising all showroom activities
• Preparing tenders, orders and leasing programs.
• Supervising staff on showroom, planning their annual leave plans,
and arranging for new recruits when needed.
• Stock organizing and ordering.
• Organizing Press Releases.
• Preparing monthly progress reports.

4. Jan. 1997 – Jan. 2003 Al-Fardan Automobile (BMW Showroom)
Showroom Manager
• Organizing showroom display
• Organizing and planning shows and events for new launches’
ceremonies.
• Managing sales executives.
• Handling customer accounts and sales in addition to after-sales
services, and expedites process.
• Preparing spreadsheets reports for higher management using MS
Excel and Access.
Jan. 1993 - Dec.1996 Al-Awad Construction Material Stores
Manager and Marketing Executive
• Reviewing quotations, getting the most competitive prices.
• Preparing quotations for tenders, trying to give the best offers.
• Responsible for purchasing & marketing of construction materials
and equipment plus managing the store’s accounts, and outdoors
sales.
• Handling customer accounts and sales in addition to after-sales
services.
• Developing product specifications according to market needs.
• Receives and inspects orders, and maintains database of goods
acquired.
• Making tabulations to choose the most competitive items,
considering quality, delivery dates and support after sales.
• Preparing purchase orders and inquires.
• Involved in all aspects of expediting goods.
• Follow up customer requests.
• Preparing spreadsheets reports for higher management using MS
Excel.
• Outdoors marketing research and surveying.
• Maintains inventory of consumables.
Aug. 1990 - Dec. 1992 Investment Bank
Customer Services Department
• Data entry for customers’ accounts, caching cheques, and clerk,
then transferred to dealing room as a trainee for six month, finally I
was transferred to the accounting department, handling bank’s
accounts.
1989 - 1990 American Life Insurance Company, USA
• Part-time job prompting and marketing insurance policies.
1988 - 1989 Met gram American, USA.
• Part-time job as a document controller handling filling and archiving
customer’s applications at one of the largest pagers corporation in
the USA.

5. TRAINING COURSES
• Negotiating Techniques and Negotiation skills Gain skills in how to make a good
first impression and how to build appropriate business relationships
• Cross Culture, understand that cultural values and beliefs influence behavior and
that expectations for leadership are not universal
• Introduction To The Petroleum Industry ,fundamental knowledge and practical
understanding of the petroleum industry, technology, terminology and business
• Two weeks training on Sales Methods and Technical abilities of BMW cars at
BMW head office in Germany.
• One week training for Marketing of Land Rover cars at Dubai Branch Office.
• Two week training for Marketing and Customer Service course (1 week), and
Advanced Customer Service course (1 week).
• Three-month training course for marketing of insurance policies at American
Life Insurance Company.
• Three-month training course for marketing pagers at Met gram America.
SKILLS
• Professionally using Windows, Word, Excel
• Languages: Excellent command of English and Arabic (reading and writing).
• Football, swimming and tennis.
• Active member in the communities, responsible person, very hard worker.
• Achiever.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Enjoys working with people.
• Strong sense of responsibility.
• Hardworking and self-motivated.