I relocate for the right engagement, or open a local office.Abu Dhabi, Dubai or Doha. English, French and Arabic.
VectoSource is the practice of Ray Daiboun, an interim procurement director with 20 years in the seat and over $1B in spend under management. For Gulf engagements he relocates to the market, or opens a local office, covering Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha, and works in English, French and Arabic.
Four situations, one person accountable for the results.
Twenty years running procurement at Ericsson, American Express Global Business Travel, L3Harris and Zurich Insurance. Over $1B under management, four continents, English, French and Arabic.
Progress reported in the finance pack rather than a slide deck, and a function your team holds when the engagement ends. Fee at risk against realised savings, where the mandate suits it.
How I work →Where automation earns its place, I pick the route that fits. Including someone else's tool, when that is the right answer.
Designed around how you actually operate, with your team in the room, so they can develop, execute and expand it after I go.
KleanCost for should-cost analysis, Clawzer for contract intelligence, shaped to your categories and your process.
See the tools →Sometimes the answer is already built by someone else. I select it, negotiate it and put it to work. No stake in which one you buy.
Led multiple category transformations across AmEx GBT. Built supplier governance and commercial frameworks across Europe and MENA.
Led global category management across large-scale spend portfolios. Delivered sustained cost reduction and supplier consolidation programmes across the Nordics and EMEA.
Procurement leadership in a high-stakes aeronautics environment. Drove supplier negotiations, contract management, and cross-functional delivery across US and UK operations.
Developed an AI-powered should-cost platform that automates cost analysis and benchmarking for procurement teams. Practitioner-built - not a side project.
Ray is a force of nature. His ability to ask questions that leave a whole room astounded at the depth of insight is something that never ceases to amaze.
Ray was an asset, innovative and motivated to lead teams, business improvement projects, and strategic initiatives.
His strategic mindset and expertise in contract management transformed our processes, leading to significant cost savings and stronger supplier relationships.
Real tools we build and run. One live and billing, one in early access, one on the way.
AI-driven should-cost analysis for procurement teams.
Input a category, get a defensible cost model and supplier benchmark in seconds, no consultants, no spreadsheets.
Ask your whole contract portfolio anything.
Point it at your folder, ask in plain English, get a cited answer across every contract. Private, on your own machine.
The operating system for procurement negotiations.
Runs the negotiation itself, inside Microsoft Word. Explainable AI redlining, your playbook enforced clause by clause, and a full audit trail. The contract is the output, not the tool. Not a CLM, a negotiation OS.
No procurement leadership in place, or a function that isn't performing. Step in, stabilise, and build the operating model from the ground up.
Spend growing faster than the team can manage. Build governance, category strategy, and supplier structure that scales with the business.
Vendor rationalisation, supplier onboarding, and category consolidation across combined entities. Deepest expertise in indirect spend, professional services, and complex contracts.
End-to-end redesign of procurement operating models. Strategy, process, and technology - built to last after the engagement ends.
On the ground. For the right engagement I relocate to the market, or open a local office, covering Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha. Procurement leadership runs on being in the room with the executive team and with suppliers, which no call replaces.
The United Arab Emirates and Qatar, working from Abu Dhabi, Dubai or Doha depending on where the engagement sits. I work in English, French and Arabic, and have run procurement across four continents.
Within 30 days of agreement, and often sooner. There is no notice period to serve, no search to run and no onboarding curve. I arrive with a plan for the first 30, 60 and 90 days, agreed with you before day one so the direction is settled rather than discovered.
Twenty years leading procurement at Ericsson, American Express Global Business Travel, L3Harris and Zurich Insurance, across four continents and over $1B of spend. The work itself: complex negotiations, critical tenders, spend optimisation, and savings that reach the P&L rather than a report. Alongside it, automation built into the function, and teams led back to confidence as individuals and as a group.
Your team holds it. Structure, governance and category strategy are documented as they are built, the people are developed during the engagement rather than after it, and any automation put in place stays with the team who helped shape it. The handover is part of the work, not an appendix.
Two ways. A day rate against a defined scope, agreed before the start. Or a lower day rate with a share of savings once they are realised, verified and signed off by your finance team against a baseline we agree before I begin. Either way, a written statement of work covers the outcome, the authority I hold and the reporting line.
Available upon agreement. Operational within days of engagement start.
Director-level thinking and execution from the first conversation. No juniors, no handoffs.
UK-based, operating globally. Fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
I'll be in touch within 24 hours.