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- Lead a team of logistics officers responsible for day-to-day logistics operations execution.- Schedule logistics service providers for multiple business units- Close to P2P cycle with service providers- Align production requirements with logistics sourcing plan- Problem solve unplanned events and capacity restrictions- Participate and influence the S&OP decision process- Develop processes to minimize non optimal costs and improve customer service- Establish a relationship with operations, CSR and sales.- Track and manage private railcar fleets, trucks and railcars.- Manager logistics costs, optimize excess cost decisions through the S&OP process- Develop Logistics KPIs

Jul 2020-Oct 2023: Strategy & Projects • Marketing Strategy o Ensure the market is competitively positioned and optimal values are generated through all commercial effort. Build a long-term strategic partnership with the customers in China. o Align with company strategy to improve internal/external performance and optimize the process. o Bulk material processing management including portside trading initiatives with options to the spot market.• Performance with value creation Ensure a strong product offering delivered with superior service right marketing channel and customer segmentation, supported by Technical Marketing and Market Analysis. • Sustainability & Innovation o Proactive management of stakeholder relations to generate a vibrant ecosystem of internal/external partners o Customers/Suppliers Segmentation o Carbon offset projectNov 2018-Jun 2020: Business ExecutionMaintaining the relationship with large state-owned enterprises such as Anshan Iron & Steel, Benxi Iron & Steel, Baotou Iron & Steel, and other private iron & steel groups in Greater Northern regions (North China beyond Hebei region). The contract renewal of 2020 has witnessed a locked sales volume of 17mt with a fixed $1.5b revenue, accounting for 10% of whole China revenue. • Maintaining the relationship with major customers, specially protected key customers.• Coordinating the transparent information to be delivered to internal teams and the customers• Organizing regular technical and commercial forums to exchange market information.

PMO for regional procurement, which defines and maintains standards for project management for iron ore operation. I strived to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of all active projects. The work is allocation resources, management of the documentation, guidance, metrics on the practice of project management and execution.

Identify and develop potential suppliers and pre-qualify them in South East Asian, and other low cost countries. Leveraging a deep understanding of the process/engineering industry, quality management systems, project management principles. Proactively manage the suppliers across different regions and cultures. Lead the identification, development, and management of the regional supply base to deliver value by aligning low-cost country sourcing to the operational business requirements. On a day-to-day basis, ensure project deliverables in terms of HSE, quality, schedule, engineering/technical support, cultural advice, and on-ground assistance to BUs from across the globe. Key achievements:• Identified 300+ potential suppliers across the regions in 3 years.• Centralise 10+ key categories and build up the category strategy• Prequalified 50+ suppliers in multiple categories in the first two years.• Delivered a value from $USD6M a year to $USD20M in the 3rd year• Develop New Market: Build up a foundation of LCC supply for multiple categories.

• Sourcing: identified new category suppliers to fulfill customer requirements driven by cost reduction. Prequalify suppliers with commercial capability, HSE, technical capability and quality, business integrity. Managing tendering and bidding process and evaluation. Prequalified 200+ suppliers in different categories• Category management: built a low-cost country-category list with successful delivery projects. Maintained mature category suppliers who are the competitor or leverage of the global vendors. Identify new categories within China to develop capable suppliers. Secured potential suppliers and marketed them for a site trial to gain confidence with LCC supply. Manage and implement 20+ categories strategy within China.• Customer Relationship Management: worked with multiple stakeholders from different locations and time zones to fulfill their requirements and understand their needs and concerns. Utilized China resources internal and external to build up a business case to release the concerns and gain trust. Introduce LCC suppliers to end-user with strong evidence by way of risk control and quality assurance.• Supplier Relationship Management: maintained active suppliers’ relationship with promoting their capability to multiple operations.• Supply Chain: supported low-cost country vendors build up their supply chain to end-user operations including logistics, inventory, after-sales service to increase their competitiveness to global vendors. • Contract Management: managed the process of contract creation, execution, and analysis to maximize operational and financial performance while reducing financial risk. An ever-increasing amount of pressure to reduce costs and improve company performance. Delivered ~$USD500M savings contribution to the business annually.• Leadership: Led a sourcing team and supported logistics, quality, HSE to provide the best proposals to customers. Lead an outsourcing team to analyze the market and industry profiles.

Project Management and Quality Management EXPERIENCEJuly 2011-Aug 2012: Project LeadResponsible for the planning, procurement, and execution of a mining site prefabricated accommodation project. First point of contact for any issues or discrepancies arising from within the various departments in the company and at the suppliers before the problem escalates to higher authorities. Maintain the progress, mutual interaction, and tasks of various parties in such a way that reduces the risk of overall failure maximize benefits and minimize costs. Manage implementation of the Company’s Quality procedure and the end user’s requirement.• Planning: Structured project team and resources and confirm the design and scope of work to the supplier. Evaluated supplier capability and facility audit. Documentation and procedure review and implementation planning.• Coordinating: utilized resources internally and externally among different functions team and stakeholders to contribute to the project execution. • Procurement: worked with sourcing team to identify capable suppliers, technical clarification, commercial negotiation, tendering, and evaluation.o Identified multiple top suppliers in China with the best experience in this categoryo Technical standardization and negotiation to meet site requirementso Commercial negotiation for the best value of the company.o Delivered 45% savings (over $USD50m) overall sites • Quality Assurance: formed a team on top of the supplier’s QA system to monitor and supervise the quality system and procedure implementation. Supported and created ITP for the project and strictly according to it to ensure the progress inspection and milestones.• Leadership: Led a team of quality managers/engineers, inspectors, auditors, analysts, and technicians internally and externally to contribute to the project delivery.• Teamwork: Worked with customers, peers, sourcing manager, contractor to make sure the on-time delivery and quality compliance.

Responsibility for overall project development, implementation, and maintenance of the company’s procedure and policy. Support supplier to meet the company’s procedure and quality requirement including quality assurance, HSE compliance, and quality system management.- Quality compliance: Ensured the supplier’s quality management system conforms to the company, internal, ISO9001, and regulatory, legal requirements.- Oversea inspection of incoming materials, ensure they meet the company requirement- Processing control: Managed the monitoring, measurement, and review of the supplier internal process- Led a team of quality engineers, inspectors, auditors, analysts, and technicians internally and externally to ensure project delivery.- Collaborated with customers, peers, sourcing manager, contractor to make sure the on-time delivery and quality compliance.As a technical advisor to the sourcing team, identify and qualify suppliers. Provided technical advice and clarification to support end-user and be a partner to the internal customer to provide a quality product to meet their requirements.- Supplier prequalification: Mitigate supplier risks thorough due diligence investigation. Audited supplier facility to verify the procedure implementation and HSE and quality compliance. Conducted documentation review, procedure inspection to fulfill the requirement of process control and delivery Conducted supplier assessment with sourcing team to evaluate supplier- Project technical clarification and evaluation: Early involvement in project initiate specification to describe the scope of work and clarify the requirement Technical tender evaluation to obtain technical compliance to the project- Project Management and Quality Assurance Conducted on-site inspection to ensure the quality compliance Provided NCR maintenance and solutions to deviation Ensured on-time delivery and commissioning.

In charge of design of welding specification and maps, processing welding qualification procedure (PQR) and welding process specification (WPS). Acted as project manager, assisting design, sourcing, QA/QC, manufacture and customer representatives to deliver the project on time with quality and technical compliance.