Strategy ,Procurement, Negotiation Consultant & Motivational Speaker for Business
Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Managing Director at El-Kadi Consulting
- Past
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- Chief Procurement Officer at Centrica Plc
- General Manager Group Procurement at The Automobile Association
- Manager Technology & Planning at House of Fraser
- Education
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- Alexandria Univversity
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Osama El-Kadi’s Summary
Osama El-Kadi has a pedigree of success within UK Blue Chip Corporate companies that spans the last 3 decades.
He has successfully undertaken many disciplines within business at a senior level including sales, procurement, supply chain, setting strategy and undertaking complex key negotiations.
Experienced strategic procurement professional, negotiator, strategist and motivational speaker for business who has operated at Company Director and Consulting Partner level with a proven track record of identifying and resolving challenging commercial problems across a range of industry sectors. Strategically minded, a leader who promotes teamwork and motivate his organisation and people to achieve. Communicator who thrives in complex and challenging working environments
Osama El-Kadi’s Specialties:
Strategy & Sun Tzu Art of War
Negotiation Consulting
Procurement Strategist
Motivational Speaker for Business
Osama El-Kadi’s Experience
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Managing Director
El-Kadi Consulting
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)
El-Kadi Consulting delivers Innovative Business Strategy and negotiation consulting with a real difference, delivered personally by Osama El-Kadi.
Osama El-Kadi is a leading international negotiation, strategy, procurement consultant and Business Motivational Speaker. an expert on utilising Sun Tzu Art of War strategies, showing you how it relates to today’s real Corporate Business environment. -
Chief Procurement Officer
Centrica Plc
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)
September 1999 — April 2007 (7 years 8 months)
Over the years as chief procuremnt officer, Osama has developed and negotiated successfully;
Major initiatives for strategic cost savings,
Multi million pound acquisition contracts,
Joint ventures and partnership deals,
Lead the negotiations for the largest IT infrastructure outsourcing programme in Europe in 2006 ($2.4 Billion),
Large scale business transformation and IT system integration ($700 Million),
Strategies for winning major conflicts with others!!
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General Manager Group Procurement
The Automobile Association
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)
May 1992 — August 1999 (7 years 4 months)
AS General Manager Procurement and in addition to the Procurement role, Osama was involved in all aspect of the AA commercial life, advising and conducting commercial negotiations on behalf of the group. These include joint ventures, bid management and bringing new products and services to market such as in-car technologies etc.
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Manager Technology & Planning
House of Fraser
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)
May 1989 — April 1992 (3 years)
I joined House Of Fraser plc as Manager Future Technologies and Procurement. I was responsible to the main Board Director for the Group IT Strategy, research and development function, procurement and contracts.
Within my three years appointment by the owners of the group, I achieved my brief of reducing the group IT spend and moving to new telecommunications and IT technologies.
Osama El-Kadi’s Education
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Alexandria Univversity
B-Com & MA, Commerce
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Osama El-Kadi’s Interests:
Horse riding and reading
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Executive Search (8400 members) member
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