Fahad's CV
Fahad Malik
Procurement Manager | Indirect & Category Sourcing
Profile summary
Experienced Procurement Manager with 8 years of progressive expertise in indirect sourcing, category management, and supplier governance. Resulted in track record of optimizing procurement operations, reducing cycle times, and securing significant cost savings through structured negotiation and standardized sourcing frameworks. Committed to driving operational efficiency and building robust supplier relationships across complex manufacturing environments.
Career highlights
Cost Optimization: Secured annual cost saving of 15% by replacing reactive buying with standardized sourcing decisions across multiple procurement categories.
Process Efficiency: Reduced cycle time by 35% without compromising quality within 6 months through structured negotiation at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant.
Supplier Governance: Built and standardized governance processes from scratch like KPIs scorecard and quarterly business reviews across more than 50 suppliers.
Professional Certification: Completed CIPS Level 4 professional certification alongside training in prompt engineering and generative artificial intelligence from Dubai Future Foundation.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs indirect procurement for a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, reporting to executive leadership and guiding a team of 8 professionals. Oversees operations across 15 core and 50+ total suppliers while managing annual expenditure budgets.
- Secures annual cost savings of 15% by replacing reactive buying with standardized sourcing decisions across IT, facilities, MRO, capex, projects, fit-outs marketing, services, and packaging categories.
- Reduced cycle time by 35% without compromising quality within 6 months through structured negotiation practices.
- Built and standardized governance processes from scratch, including KPI scorecards and quarterly business reviews, across 50+ suppliers.
- Regulates vendor onboarding and purchase requisition to purchase order processes while directing daily team operations.
Directed procurement operations for an FMCG manufacturer, managing inbound inventory and supplier networks. Procured electrical spares, raw materials, and automation components to maintain continuous production lines.
- Lifted asset uptime to 20% by efficiently handling global and regional suppliers across inbound inventory.
- Initiated RFP and RFQ processes and bid evaluations whilst qualifying an average of 20 suppliers annually on technical specifications.
- Reduced turnaround time and provided visibility on spend to Finance and planning by processing workflows from requisition to invoice closure.
Managed operational workflows and vendor interactions for industrial automation and solar projects. Handled the acquisition of technical parts and monitored delivery timelines to maintain alignment with production schedules.
- Procured components for over 100 solar photovoltaic and automation control system installations.
- Executed on-time acquisitions to satisfy project delivery schedules.
Managed technical specifications and internal engineering systems. Coordinated project workflows alongside cross-functional team members without formal direct reports.
- Drove a 25% increase in annual revenue by closing STEM product partnerships with 15+ schools through commercial negotiation.
- Directed engineering tasks for internal systems during the 2018-06 to 2019-05 period.
Education
Supply Chain Management
- Karachi, Pakistan
Electronics Engineering
- Karachi, Pakistan