ISAAC GALANDI

• Strategic Procurement Leadership: Led procurement, logistics, warehousing, and inventory management across Uganda and Burundi, achieving 25% cost savings and a 96% supplier performance improvement.
• High-Value Contract Negotiations: Secured favourable terms and improved contract efficiency by 20%, ensuring maximum value for money in procurement agreements.
• Budget Management & Compliance: Oversaw a USD 57 million annual budget, ensuring 100% compliance with procurement plans, policies, and shareholder interests.
• Team Development & Performance Improvement: Trained and mentored a team of five procurement officers, driving a 40% increase in performance evaluations and a 95% improvement in job efficiency.
• Procurement Planning & Execution: Designed and implemented procurement strategies, reducing lead times by 40% year-on-year and streamlining end-to-end processes.
• Supplier & Contract Management: Developed tender documents and competitive bidding processes, improving contract completion rates by 89% and enhancing supplier relationships.
• Risk & Compliance Oversight: Led risk management initiatives, ensuring adherence to company policies, government regulations, and environmental standards.
• Logistics & Fleet Optimization: Established and managed fleet and logistics contracts, ensuring timely and cost-effective supply chain operations across multiple locations.
• Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights: Conducted price forecasting and market analysis, equipping the CEO with timely data-driven insights for procurement and business decisions.
• Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement: Prepared and presented quarterly procurement performance reports to executive leadership and the board, enhancing transparency and informed decision-making.

• Developed strong relationships with key suppliers, resulting in improved communication, better pricing, and reliable delivery schedules.

Key Impact:
During this period, three strategic procurement policies were successfully deployed and permanently adopted, resulting in a 40% reduction in lead time and significantly improving end-to-end procurement processes.

• Prepared and evaluated bidding documents to ensure thorough supplier selection in accordance with contract and donor requirements.
• Led supplier negotiations to achieve cost savings, value for money and enhancing compliance to contract terms.
• Coordinated the asset disposal processes.
• Participated in mentoring public health facilities in healthcare supply chain strengthening programs under Ministry of Health – Uganda.
• Analysed procurement data and carried out market intelligence to gather information to be used in strategy formulation and drafting comprehensive annual procurement plans.
• Built and maintained strong supplier relationships to foster collaboration and support ongoing procurement needs.
• Conducted routine contract performance reviews and provided reports to stakeholders including management, PPDA, and Donors.
• Sourced and pre-qualified new suppliers through open bidding, market knowledge and references, and carried our new supplier audits.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to develop products and service specifications, detailed supplier KPIs to track suppliers’ performance.
• Prepared and submitted monthly procurement reports to management, PPDA, donors and other regulatory bodies.
• Oversaw inventory and resource management ensuring 100% availability of critical medical and operational supplies by implementing a digital inventory tracking system.
• Managed vendor and supplier relationships conducting annual performance reviews to ensure compliance to quality, delivery timelines and cost-effectiveness.

• Maintained detailed records of all procurement activities for reference purposes as well as for auditing and compliance.

• Sourced and pre-qualified suppliers periodically maintaining an optimal supplier base.
• Managed storage and delivery of supplies to all organization epicentres achieving a 90% on time in full deliveries.
• Conducted risk assessment and implemented mitigation measures to ensure continued supply chain resilience.
• Tracked shipments of different supplies under importation and collaborated with logistics service providers ensuring timely and safe deliveries maintaining the integrity of all supplies.
• Collaborated with clearing and forwarding firms to ensure timely clearance and delivery of all imported supplies.
• Quantified, forecasted, and planned replenishments for operational supplies achieving a 98% stock availability.
• Optimized the organization logistics infrastructure that ensured reduced logistics costs, reduced fleet trips, minimizing emissions and reducing the organization carbon footprint.
• Managed the organization fleet through optimal route mapping, efficient maintenance and timely renewal of regulatory licenses.
• Led risk and performance management initiatives conducting regular assessments to identify and mitigate logistics and contract risks, enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Trained and mentored fleet, estates and logistics staff improving efficiency by 20% and provided top management with monthly reports on inventory, logistics performance, cost savings and improvements.