Working at Saud Bahwan Group, Muscat Since Jul’08 as Strategic Planning, Pricing and Inventory Management Specialist (Toyota Parts)Accountable for: Pricing: PDCA Activity to Minimize Logistics Cost thru continuous KaizenEstablish pricing norms for spare parts, according to the territory/ area.Develop and expanding the capabilities and competencies across all facets of pricing, especially with competitor. Maintain cost data bases of regularly used materials to ensure stability of pricing.Manage day-to-day pricing operations to ensure efficient and effective execution of key processes and procedures.Monitor margin and markup of each bulk deals for improving sales as well as profit.Procurement: Designing & scheduling material procurement plans for spare parts, consumables like oils, battery & maintenance items. OTR (order transfer request) generation and inspection.Generate order proposals using the systems and place orders on the principals.Develops and implements short and long term procurement strategies for the supply management system. Inventory Control: Efficiently managing the inventory levels thereby ensuring optimum use of inventoryUsing ABC analysis for optimize the stock level Back ordering produced by inventory class Products inventory class maintaining Analyse the exception reports on critical stocks, lost sales, excess stocks etc. and take corrective action where necessary to improve parts availability and minimise stock obsolescence.Sales & Marketing: Provide technical support to the parts sales staff by resolving their queries and issues by interacting with the principalsDeveloping marketing strategies to build consumer preference and driving volumes. Evaluating marketing budgets including manpower planning initiatives and ensure adherence to planned expenses.

Spare Part Management• Design, implement and monitor effective procurement schedules along with finalizing the specifications of the spare parts and establishing the quality & quantity limits.• Supervise the inventory and stores for proper storage of material and spares.• Monitor inventory levels and co-ordinate with the purchase department for the generation of purchase orders, as and when inventory reaches re-order levels.Service Operations• Handle overall operations at the service workshop.• Streamline the service systems and develop new systems for enhancing efficiency.• Maintain a proper inventory of spare for smooth execution of service operations.• Coordinate with the principals for providing product performance reports.• Conduct training programme to enhance operational efficiencies of workforce, focusing on technical & customer care aspect.Sales & Business Development• Provide direction to execute promotions/ launches in sync with regional characteristics.• Build brand focus in conjunction with operational requirements.• Ensure maximum brand visibility and capture optimum market shares.• Drive and lead the Team to achieve targets and Goal sheets given by the company.People Management/ Training• Lead a 40 member team consists of 3 Junior managers, 9 Supervisors, 7 Field executives and 21 Skilled labors• Impart coaching to employees on initiatives, ensuring the progress on identified improvement initiatives, sharing and implementing best practices in order to achieve installation parameters.• Monitor the work performance, appraise, provide feedback, impart knowledge, plan development, resolve conflicts, implement employee engagement and development/ training plans, monitor program status, and act as mentor, inducting new recruits.