Daniel Chamoun Email & Phone Number

Beirut Corniche Al Nahr

Developing procurement and sourcing activities that support key business objectives and requisitions, in addition to performing cost control practices to minimize the company’s costs & controlled expenses.Preparing and issuing purchase orders and administered purchase requisitions and conducting financial tracking and billing in order to make sure all are aligned to the approved budget.Developing and executing short and long-term Procurement strategies and annual operating plans and identifying areas of improvements to continually drive performance and business results.Negotiating prices, payments and delivery terms with suppliers in order to meet critical requirements within deadlines.Maintaining strong working relationships with strategic suppliers to assure cost, quality and lead time targets are met.Tracking and delivering cost savings initiatives across the business.Preparing and submitting RFPs and RFQs and issuing cost analysis reports and studies.Monitoring stock management and analysis in coordination with various departments.Issuing monthly and annual forecast and analysis for contracts on hand and conducting a series of reports related to the department.Ensuring all work performed in accordance with departmental and company regulations.Managing all logistic operations related to the department in terms of material receivable and delivery. Processing payments for all foreign vendor and maintaining the terms and conditions agreed on the PO.Managing a team of purchasing and logistics officers.

Jal El Dib

Locating vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them in order to determine product availability and terms of sales. Preparing and processing demands and purchase orders for supplies and equipment. Controlling purchasing department budgets. Reviewing purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy. Analyzing market and delivery systems in order to assess present and future material availability. Developing and implementing purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures. Participating in the development of specifications for equipment, products or substitute materials. Reviewing, evaluating, and approving specifications for issuing and awarding bids. Directing and coordinating activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies. Preparing bid awards requiring board approval. Preparing reports regarding market conditions and merchandise costs.

Beirut, Bouchrieh

Handling all activities related to foreign supplier purchases. Handling all correspondence with suppliers & secures problem-free business relationships. Studies on potential suppliers & negotiating prices depending on optimum price/quality ratio. Handling all the activities related to cost analysis of materials. Establishing studies and reports to ensure matching the market trends. Insuring the availability of all items and issuing products forecasts. Coordinating with suppliers to ensure receipt of original documents needed for customs clearance. Providing cost of incoming shipments to establish landed cost and coordinate with freight forwarding companies in order to ensure the delivery of material without delay. Studies on all foreign sales orders for export shipment planning. Managing all logistic operations, local purchases and services. Monitoring and controling all activities related to the department.

Kuwait

Managing all purchasing operations of Kuwait’s Office. Lead a team of purchasing officers & personnel who conducted 90% of all purchases for ALMCO Group. Purchasing from Kuwait all the construction supplies, equipments and tools for more than 50 projects and contracts for the US army and US department of defense in IRAQ. Purchasing all catering equipments and supplies for more than 15 catering projects in Iraq for the US army. Supervising all purchases from all over the world to the Group’s projects in Iraq. Managing the coordination between the logistics and purchasing departments. Supervising three production facilities in Kuwait for prefabricated housing units having a capacity of more than 300 units per month and with more than 200 employees. Mobilizing in terms of supplies all catering and construction projects for the Group in Iraq (sometimes mobilized more than 7 multimillion projects at a time). Managing the Food Supply department which supplied daily goods to Camp Bucca which is the world’s largest detainee facility and the third largest FOB in Iraq. Managing the purchases of food and supplies for more than 30,000 personnel (daily)