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Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Since 1961, Tegel has been putting chicken on Kiwi tables. With over 2,300 employees nationwide, We are the leading brand in the poultry industry here in New Zealand, expanding our reach into international markets with a range of fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.• Development and recommendations on the Procurement strategic plan• Manage Vendor Relationships and Vendor Performance• Negotiation of contracts to drive cost-out and efficiencies.• Manage Supplier disputes and drive to resolution.

Tehran, Iran

Digikala Group is a leading e-commerce organization with a firm grip in multiple online industries. The company operates through its subsidiaries representing nearly 92% of Iran’s online retail market share.● Managing the company’s 3PL relationship to ensure order execution performance and expanding contracts.● Orchestrate First-Mile, Mid-Mile, Sortation Center and Third Party Logistics service providers and related operations and affairs.● Review, assess and manage logistics performance, driving improvements on accuracy, efficiencies and costs.● Develop strategies and set the budget for the department in accordance with company’s main strategy. ● Develop strong and comprehensive department KPI framework, ensuring all key performance and cost targets are met in conjunction with excellent customer experience.● Develop initiatives to improve speed, efficiency and the quality of current process and make customer experience better than ever.● Lead, motivate and support a large team within a time-sensitive and demanding environment, including set up and implementation of career development plans for all direct reports.

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Goldiran is a group of several companies that produce, distribute, and provide after sales services for LG Electronics products in Iran.● Executed IT and ERP systems to manage stock levels, delivery lead times and transportation costs. Evaluate performance and improvement planning resulted to achieve over 300 trucks/day deliveries.● Liaised and negotiated with customers and suppliers and attained optimized transportation rates and warehousing services that improved supply chain efficiency and sustainability.● Developed business by leading new contracts, supervising imports, customer issues and all relatedinbound/Outbound logistical problems and producing new solutions.● Analyze and optimization of data and procedures through data gathering, mathematical models and solutions in order to improve efficiency and transparency.● Improved distribution performance and cost reduction by over 20% by consolidation of orders through analysis and negotiation with customers, operational team and IT.● Lead S&OP meeting and follow ups, ERP/WMS/TMS implementation and improvement analysis, warehouse positioning across country and 3PL evaluation and coaching.

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, and top telecommunication hardware provider in Iran.● Managed supply chain and logistics of 30+ spare parts multi-vendor warehouses across the country and for multi-customer projects.● Achieved all SLA & KPI through successful subcontractor alignment, cross functional team leadership, process optimizations and planning.● Attained Inventory accuracy of over 98% for multi-vendor equipment and over 10,000 SKU through root cause analysis, procedure and warehouse quality improvement, coaching and training. (increased by 5% in one year)● Supported sales team where needed and provided professional information and presentation at customer annual meeting.● Launched and Customized Inventory control and order management systems, transformation and implementation together with expat teams to correspond to new requirements from customer and facilitate operation improvements.● Awarded Huawei Future Star Medal and 3 other prizes for outstanding performance and contribution to success of project and continuous improvement.

Tehran Province, Iran

Goldiran is a group of several companies that produce, distribute, and provide after sales services for LG Electronics products in Iran.● Collect data and measurement results from different sources, including IT systems, product dimensions,warehouse spaces and distribution capacities and transportation limits.● Apply Mathematical theories, develop computational methods and recasting the models in order to solveproblems that occur in daily operations with concentration on fields of warehousing and transportation or anyother related duties.● Liaising with other departments and management in order to develop mathematical techniques to eliminatedeficiencies.● Analytical report creation, evaluate and monitor accuracy of reports and analyze results in comparison withdifferent IT systems, along with a summary dashboard to management and other stake holders.● Produce and suggest optimized solution and financial improvement via using mathematical methods like numerical analysis.

Tehran Province, Iran

One of the biggest holdings in Turkey and top 3 logistics companies started its branch operations at 2007 in Tehran, with the vision of becoming the top 3PL company in Iran.● Developed receiving, warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.● Increased inventory control levels by conducting different physical counts; reconciling with data storage system.● Monitored multi-customer warehouses in 3 major cities of Iran, for local and multi-national customers, including over 40,000 sqm under roof and open area warehouses, with over 15,000 SKU and 40 staffs.● Achieved inventory accuracy of over 99%, order fulfillment and delivery KPIs over 98%, through efficient implementation and usage of WMS. ● Supported expat teams for data gathering, analysis, SOP and layout design and implementation of WMS through challenging procedures and with customer orientations. ● Received Six Sigma training and applied several optimization projects as a black belt in Iran warehousing operations.

Tehran, Iran

Micromaster, Supply Chain Management

Master'S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Mathematics