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- Developing, leading and executing purchasing strategies
- Tracking and reporting key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
- Crafting negotiation strategies and closing deals with the suppliers.
- Review prices and quality and ensure optimal stock levels.
- Searching and finding potential qualified and professional vendors/manufacturers/ suppliers.
- Evaluating vendors, negotiating contracts and compare between suppliers’ prices, quality and services.
- Report all offers received to management/sales with the selection chosen recommendation with reasons.
- Create and maintain good relationships with key suppliers to ensure merchandise is high quality and delivered on time.
- Make deals and negotiate the contract clauses and conditions with the Suppliers to achieve the company target.
- Control the prices and reduce the overall production costs.
- Follow all the process of production for each project/order till the moment of the delivery of the product to the client. And review quality of purchased products.
- Follow up with the feedback after delivering to the clients in order to achieve the customer satisfactions.
- Prepare weekly and monthly reports on purchases, including cost analyses.
- Follow up the order during the production by (picture & visiting the factory during the production)
- Achieving the highest value equation by obtaining a level of quality for the lowest price
- Perform and implement all custom clearance activities such as following upcoming Shipment, documents transactions and day-to-day related activities in accordance with the objectives, policies and procedures.
- Understand all the procedures that must be done for clearing sea shipments and air cargo shipments
- Guiding goods through customs, preparing and submitting documents, determining tariff and duty payments, tracking shipments, and using the tariff coding system to classify shipments.
- Follow up shipments and documents with the freight forwarders and shipping lines.
Job Requirements
- Fluent in English
- Proven working experience at least 5 years as Purchasing and logistics Manager.
- Have experience in wooden furniture and accessories.
- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
- Interest in market dynamics along with business sense
- A knack for negotiation and networking
- Solid judgement along with decision making skills
- Have furniture importing and exporting background.
- Ability to work on team, honesty & hard worker.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
- Excellent communication skills and good presentation skills
- Problem-solving and Decision making
