Laith Al Mughairi

Managed portfolio of logistics materials management and 7 PDO-operated warehouses across the concession, ensuring full compliance with PDO procedures, guidelines, and business principles.

• Accountable for 7 PDO-staffed warehouses managing over 87,000 line items of materials across the concession.
• Coached and trained cross-functional teams on Continuous Improvement (CI) fundamentals, embedding Lean methodologies to drive measurable business improvements.
• Facilitated problem-solving for simple and complex operational challenges, enhancing team efficiency and capability.
• Organized and led Kaizen workshops and CI huddles within the energy sector, delivering significant process enhancements and operational gains.
• Conducted Gemba Walks across PDO Materials Management and warehousing operations, producing management reports, feedback, and trend analyses to inform strategic decisions.
• Partnered with Operations Excellence and Business Improvement teams to implement business plan deliverables and achieve team objectives.
• Collaborated with Finance and Contracts to develop and monitor budgets for warehouse operations, ensuring cost control and accountability.
• Developed, reviewed, and captured KPIs, delivering comprehensive reporting dashboards and performance analysis to track operational health and drive data-informed decision-making.
• Ensured SAP roles and responsibilities were aligned with business needs, maintaining compliance, operational efficiency, and system integrity.
• Designed and executed Lean-aligned strategies for warehousing and materials management, driving continuous optimization and efficiency.
• Promoted and actively engaged in Lean CI initiatives, fostering a sustainable culture of continuous improvement across operations.
• Mentored and developed talent, contributing to structured development programs and knowledge-sharing practices.

• Initiated and led a team of 4 to remodel seven warehouses across multiple locations, resulting in cost savings exceeding XXX Million USD by strategically leveraging geographic advantages to ensure proximity-based delivery efficiency. Direct report to Warehouse and industrial assets project manager
• Developed and proposed a strategy in direct alignment with the warehousing strategy to reduce logistics driving distances by more than 15 million kilometers per annum
• Analyzed vehicle and movement types to ensure optimum cost and GHG/CO2 reduction.
• Constant collaboration with multiple consultants and academia to ensure accuracy of strategy targets
• Constant collaboration with external stakeholders such as Customs, Royal Oman Police, ASYAD, Oman Vision 2040, and Shell.
• Ensured that the strategy is aligned with the Contracts and Procurement (C&P) policy for high value projects.
• Leveraging of country infrastructure to support inventory holding value reduction (Utilization of Free trade zones)
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including Legal, Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE), Category Management, Infrastructure, Cargo-Haulage, and Warehouse teams, to foster active collaboration and identify and resolve process pain points
• Contract Holder for this strategy

• Monitored and ensured team compliance with company regulations and procedures.
• Coached staff in proper material handling processes to reduce dispatch times.
• Coordinated with suppliers and transport companies to streamline inbound and outbound logistics operations.
• Investigated incidents and accidents within the warehouse, implementing measures to prevent future occurrences.
• Managed budget for warehouse operations, controlling expenses to stay within financial targets.
• Developed a bridge between Operations, Procurement and Logistics to ensure flawless communication and process optimization
• Manage contractor staff and allocation of task and resources and ensure that all materials have undergone EQC inspection and preserved as per preservation philosophy.
• Managed a huge number of fleet vehicles, planning routes and timings to maximise adherence to schedule.
• Ensuring materials are properly accounted for in appropriate stock inventories, and efficiently managing operation activities.

• Administering cargo-haulage contracts according to CMF guidelines and logistics cargo-haulage and contractor performance and standards.
• Determining, recommending, and driving implementation of innovative, cost effective and sustainable rig moves and cargo haulage services.
• Ensuring that the 4PL objective of annual cost reductions are attainable, sustainable and measured
• Developing and managing Logistics SLAs and Customer relations
• Managing Recourses to Meet Business Needs
• Identifying Cargo-haulage Requirement and work Scope

• Mapping out suppliers from various infected countries
• Expediting materials and ensuring business continuity
• Developing systems for vendors visibility beyond tier 1
• Bi-weekly logistics and manufacturing status updates
• Supporting procurement team with ensuring vendor compliance

• 3 years graduate development program completed
• Rotated among all function within PDO logistics (Warehousing, Cargo-Haulage, Land Commuting, Fleet services, Aviation, and Contracts)
• Developed a clear understand of the entire logistics business and the various contractors and SLAs supporting the activities
• Initiated various successful projects and KPIs. 2 of the most successful are "Logistics cost per barrel" and "Digitalizing HSE inspection Checklists"

• Developing Procurement, tendering & contracting strategy by identifying the contracts required for various departments. Engage and collaborate with the department heads and internal stakeholders to deliver an annual procurement plan that fulfills business expectations.
• Assist in awarding vendors based on procurement strategies.
• Develop and monitor contracts by identifying scope/packages, tendering, invitation of bids, evaluation of contracts along with respective user department, legal validation of contracts, negotiation of contract rates and deliverables, selection of vendors to ensure that the required contracts are provided to the company at least total cost of ownership
• Create a vendor database to facilitate the contracting process, supervise the vendor registration process, and evaluate vendors using defined parameters and update database to reflect preferred vendors to ensure that the right vendors are selected to provide services to the company
• Handle negotiations and conflicts to bring amicable solution to both vendors and the company
• Responsible for supplier communication to resolve transactional issues.
• Responsible for resolving invoice price and terms discrepancies to enable order processing
• Recruit and coordinate logistics staff (e.g. truck drivers) according to availabilities and requirements
• Plan and track the shipment of final products according to customer requirements