Ruslan Namazov

Award: “Best Buyer for SRM” recognition in 2023, Best Buyer for Claim Recovery Management” recognition in 2023, Nominee for prestigious fellowship - Americas Procurement Fellow Program in 2024.

• Orchestrated the commodity strategy and panel elaboration, with implementation of a supplier performance management plan, leading to supplier reliability scores improvement by 15%
• Managed specific supplier panel relationship, contributing to 8% cost decrease in tendering/bid phase, while maintaining quality
• Improved supply chain efficiency and resilience resulted in 95 % on time delivery with reduced processing lead time by 13%
• Represented the commodities towards projects and platforms , ensured effective teamwork with internal customers and stakeholders, amplifying cross-departmental team synergy leading to 50% decrease of problem resolution time
• Eliminated 8-year-old contractual and commercial backlogs, with cash return of 2MUSD as a claim recovery in 2023/2024

• Drove identified changes to the processes and information technology tools (existing and new): 20 recommendations and 6 standard operating procedures embedded in global procurement strategy
• Orchestrated the shift to paperless and automate purchasing workflows, resulting in reduced procurement complexity and a 40% reduction in processing time
• Delivered the business training and documentation, leading to a 20% increase in user adoption rates across the department
• Developed best practices for group procurement business activities and set standards for processes and procedures, decreasing average non-compliancy rate by 37%
• Led continuous improvement plan that leveraged lean principles, improving process standardization and efficiency by 20%
• Developed procurement and supplier performance metrics/KPIs (OTIF, Supplier Scorecards) saving approximately 10 hours of manual reporting per month for the procurement

• Managed the procurement staff (on average 8 multidisciplinary buyers) in sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing and miscellaneous internal procurement-support activities
• Conducted regular market surveys, achieving the onboarding of > 25 new suppliers for the most critical commodities
• Ensured timely execution of purchasing orders and contractual deliverables : in total 400 successfully implemented projects with annual purchased value of 80MUSD per year
• Developed strategic suppliers and negotiated long-term agreements to optimize number of vendors, reducing order processing time by 50%
• Was accountable for all purchase contracts submitted, up to the limits set by the financial rules of the delegation in question: more than 500 contracts signed with 100% compliance rate

• Analyzed Cost Break Down and provided vehicle components cost analysis, leading to 5% savings within 6 months
• Monitored raw material/ trends, contributing to the timely reduction of the price in affected commodity.
• Oversaw necessity and feasibility of engineering changes to make sourcing recommendations: in total 3 implemented engineering changes, achieving 15% decrease in production cost of supplier
• Kept suppliers updated on forecasts and ensured suppliers are working to pre-defined KPI.

• Monitored all relevant suppliers and parts information and ensured proper ordering, contract management, invoicing and cost control
• Prepared and Processed purchase orders in SAP, followed up delivery and payment
• Supported Lead Buyer in negotiating terms and conditions of contract and resolve all post-order commercial issues