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Istanbul, Turkey

ZAMIL GROUP TURKEY LTD. / SALES & SOURCING MANAGER(04.2011 – Current)• Taking role as country manager for Turkey.• Overall responsibility for the results of the Zamil Group Turkey P&L• Managing distributorship of foreign companies within the defined territory in diversified area such as mining, grains, feed additives, petfood, poultry and rendering and chemicals.• Taking additional duties as purchasing manager for companies based in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia namely as Zamil Food Ltd. And Zamil Group Commercial Steel Division since 2012.• Reports to the General Manager (Trading) of Zamil Commercial Head Office – Dammam, Saudi Arabia.• Business developing, managing sales and sourcing/trading activities for different categories of goods and services from various sectors including chemicals, petrochemicals, plastics, mines, steel, food, telecommunication, home appliances in and out of Turkey.• Responsible for Market Survey, Identifying potential Customers for specific products/services and generating new business by leveraging existing relationships• Driving and managing entire sales process. • Maximizing sales performance through delivering an exceptional customer experience, people management and cost control.• Acting as a role model for employees in the team through strong leadership• Responsible to negotiate best possible pricing and payment terms, matching with the current market levels for purchasing activities of Zamil Food and Steel Division.• Responsible for sourcing activities from Turkey to Saudi Arabia.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Executing purchasing strategies and activities working in conjunction with other departments such as networks operations, network operations support, ICT, product services and management.• Responsible to run purchasing operations including infrastructure, hardware and software requests for service and enterprise solutions.• HW & SW & Support - Maintenance procurement process, project management and contracting.• Responsible of purchasing annual budget approximately 100 M $ (CAPEX+OPEX) • Managing, negotiating, dealing and working with over 70 local and international suppliers.• Management of cost reduction projects.• Maintaining records of supplier contracts, agreements, goods ordered received.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible of purchasing cable groups for all type of white goods manufactured.• Management of purchasing budget to the value of approximately 50 M €/year.• Managing, negotiating, dealing and working with over 50 local and international suppliers and contracting.• Project management for localization.• Making recommendations & advising senior management on all purchasing issues.• Alternative Supplier Investigation and taking new suppliers into the purchasing system.• To run the purchasing policy working in conjunction with other departments where the best quality, min. stock level, lead time and best commercial terms are optimized.

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