Ahmed R

Industry: Construction | Urban Development | Real Estate | Hospitality | Asset Management Leading the commercial and procurement function for a multi-billion-dirham portfolio spanning real estate development, construction, hospitality, and asset management from budgeting and cost planning through contract structuring, procurement execution, and final accounts. Reporting to the executive leadership team, I serve as the primary commercial advisor on strategy, risk, and budget control across concurrent project workstreams. My mandate covers the full commercial lifecycle: cost management, contract administration, strategic sourcing, supplier governance, and value engineering across all asset classes. Key accomplishments in this role: • Delivered 20–25% cost reduction across the portfolio through strategic sourcing, vendor requalification, and long-term partnership frameworks. • Reduced commercial cycle times by 25% through Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation and AI-enabled decision dashboards. • Established corporate-wide commercial governance aligned with ESG principles, MRICS standards, and CIPS ethical procurement practices (Ethics Kitemark 2023–2025). • Built and lead a high-performing commercial team managing concurrent workstreams across Residential, Commercial, Retail, Hospitality, and Asset Management sectors. • Partner directly with Development, Design, and Project Delivery leadership to align commercial objectives with project execution across Master Planning, Design & Build, EPC, and Cost Plus delivery models. • Launched supplier development programs improving KPI compliance by 30% and strengthening supply chain resilience.

Industry: Asset Management, Development, Facility Management Contract & Commercial Management • Downstream & upstream Contract management. • Take a lead and managing all commercial-related issues. Procurement & Inventory Management • Develop Strategic and Annual Procurement Plan for BUs and Division. • Procurement and Vendor management through P2P Complete Cycle complying with Budget. • Lead ERP system implementation/improvement process within the company integrating all functions (procurement, inventory, finance) & vendor management. • Value Engineering, new Proposals for cost savings. • Analyze and manage the Materials stock availability and improve company’s inventory process Bid Management • Set up and Manage a Bid management process to ensure competitive market proposals satisfying clients requirements from a techno-commercial perspective. • Lead customer techno-commercial negotiations achieving a competitive advantage to the company. Internal/External Stakeholder Management • Report to COO all related departments performance reports. • Provide support to the General Managers to develop and manage a network of senior relationships with existing customers, potential customers, partners and stakeholders. • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of market trends, competitors, new technologies and service solutions within the market. • Liaise with the Finance Team to manage the cash out through Vendors payment management plan ensure service continuity. • Liaise with QA/QC initiating KPIs for vendors in different services to improve the vendor evaluation process and in-house/outsource decision making. • Manage & support the transition program & timelines, assist in preparing operating budget, conduct techno-commercial gap analysis between bid & operating budgets, identify efficiencies improvement areas.

Industry: (Construction, Manufacturing, Real State) Key Projects: (Above AED500M) St. Regis Gardens The Palm Harbour Gate Tower Yas Water Edge Community Yas Acres Community 5000 Emarati Housing Community 3000 Mira Oasis Housing & Residence Mudon Development Maple Housing and Residence Marbella Village Key Projects: (Below AED500M) The Local Hotel, Grozny. Urbela Residences, Kurdistan. Future School, Yas Island & Al Ain. Marsa Zayed Resort, Al Aqaba, Jordan. Key Clients: Royal Group, Reem Developer, Tamouh, Al Qudra, Musanada, Damac, ALdar, Nakheel, Meraas. Duties • Improve, Implement new procurement strategies to ensure long term, cost effective supply of materials/tools and equipments and simplify the internal process. • Research for new vendors, local and international, in terms of best value, delivery schedules and quality in order to cope with company’s vision in both long and short term relations. • Forecast /Monitor Stock levels in order to maintain the pipeline of materials flow for all running projects and manage materials/equipment inventory. • Negotiating and agreeing contracts with vendors. • Ensure Compliance with project budgets; provide analysis of deviations and handling change order requests as well as upstream/downstream variations. • Preparation of sub-contract agreement Frames in order to minimize the risk for the company. • Follow up works, monthly invoices of subcontractors agreeing on their monthly payment certificates. • Assist in settling invoice or contract disputes. • Evaluating bids and making recommendations based on technical and commercial factors. • Value Engineering, new materials research for design and cost savings. • Attend site meetings and provide required status reports. • Report to and depute Commercial Manager. • Monitoring and controlling company’s procurement/purchasing activities via Candy and Build smart construction computer software.

Procurement & Contracts Responsibility • Definition of procurement strategies to ensure long term, cost effective supply of materials/tools. • Contract & price negotiation for medium & large volume to improve CNI. • Initiate & enforce internal & external benchmarking & customer satisfaction analysis to support continuous improvement of our services. • Regular contacts with interface partners to recognize the changes in demand, supply of materials/tools/equipments in the market. • Preparation/Handling of sub-contract agreement Frames in order to minimize the risk for the company, Purchase orders/requests & negotiation. • Follow up works, monthly invoices of subcontractors agreeing on their monthly payment certificates. • Preparation of Bid Packages, Enquiry Requisitions, Review techno-commercial vendor offers (material, equipments, subcontractor) meeting the budget requirements and within scheduled time frame. Technical Responsibility • Verify Scope of works reviewing the drawings & specifications and generating/reviewing all required details & shop drawings. • Supervise and coordinate the design process/approval with design team, Consultant & Client. • Preparation of all Engineering/Technical Deliverables for all project related activities (i.e. material submittals, prequalification submittals, shop drawings). • Coordinate between all drawings (MEP & Civil) to clarify the details at the work packages of WBS. • Preparation & follow up all the technical matters (RFI’s, CVI’s, NCR’s, ..etc.) • Technical assistance & coordination with Site Team in order to facilitate the completion of scope of works on time. Project Management Responsibility •Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis and record any changes in execution process up to the close out Phase. • Assist the assigned project manager in tracking the project against its schedule, budget and against phase review objectives as well as project status reports/presentations.