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• Responsible for business development of Europe, USA, North America, Japan, South Korea. • Supervise and Support the business on Buy Side/Hulled position book for India/China/ Africa. • Leading team of traders, logistics and back office staff to provide optimal solutions for growing customer base. • Track and analyze factors that affect price movement, such as trade policies, weather conditions, foreign exchange rates political developments, or supply and demand changes.• Evaluate changes in the market conditions and negotiates the best purchase price while assessing all angels of the situation.• Devise trading, option, or hedge strategies. • Identify opportunities or develop channels for purchase or sale of commodities.

• Responsible for building the strategic delivery model that will effectively cover the company’s current and projected markets• Collaborate with product team to drive system and operational improvements that will improve delivery efficiencies and result in lower cost per delivery goals in each market• Collaborate with product team to drive system and operational improvements that will improve delivery efficiencies and result in lower cost per delivery goals in each market• Responsible for the analysis of complex problem cases, as well as develop actions or recommendations to assure sustainable elimination and avoidance.• Drive logistics plans through clear communication and close co-operation with Traders, Procurement Officers, Processing Leads, and major suppliers/vendors.• Led the team of 10-12 with involvement in development & implementation of Global ERP applications in the logistics department and considerably improved customer service levels across key accounts by reducing out of stocks, days of stock and meeting customer-specified delivery requirements• Steered logistics operations for supply of finished goods to China, Japan, Europe and Turkey & more than 200,000 MT stocks points across East & West African countries and directed the development of SOPs on outbound logistics, policy formulation & their implementation • Optimize the logistics network (inbound and outbound) while maintaining required capacity and meeting expected service levels.• Successfully collaborated with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes; analyzed the financial impact of proposed logistics changes such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes, and carriers• Supervised Inbound Logistics (IBL) & Outbound Logistics (OBL) movement control of raw and processed goods across 10 countries manufacturing units, and 14 warehouses through a logistics and distribution team for managing multiple routes

• Showcased strong business relations with shipper and consignee, provided information of all sectors, developed business to shipper & consignee; managed daily shipping activities considerably• Gained knowledge on cargo flow of market and targeted customer in accordance to it, worked independently to meet deadlines and successfully reported about current market flow and competition rates to the management

• Recognized for finalizing the pricing with all shipping lines, negotiating prices and dealing with all carriers; ensured proper coordination with the shipping clients regarding submission of documents and vessel schedules and provided shipping facilities through data collection, analysis and negotiation