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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

- Buying and selling of petrochemical and petroleum derivatives.- Managing more than 200 customers, local as well as export customers.- Experienced in supply chain dynamics and handling a team.

Al Hamriyah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Al Hamriyah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

• Handling the global sourcing, negotiation and procurement of chemical raw materials, packaging materials, consumables and all the indirect services required including complex requirements.• Timely planning, forecasting and purchasing of goods and services in the most cost effective and a timely manner required to run the plant smoothly. Delegation of Authority Matrix, policies and procedures and local business engagement. Discover the most profitable suppliers and initiate… Show more • Handling the global sourcing, negotiation and procurement of chemical raw materials, packaging materials, consumables and all the indirect services required including complex requirements.• Timely planning, forecasting and purchasing of goods and services in the most cost effective and a timely manner required to run the plant smoothly. Delegation of Authority Matrix, policies and procedures and local business engagement. Discover the most profitable suppliers and initiate business partnerships. Collaborate with key persons to ensure the clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company. Control spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs. • Plans, organizes, directs, and controls activities related to the procurement and logistics function.• Organizes, supervises, and directs the work of storeroom and central supply personnel engaged in receiving, issuing, and delivering supplies.• Analyzes market and delivery conditions to determine present and future material availability, and prepares market analysis reports.• Develops a system to evaluate vendor quotations that utilizes appropriate negotiation and purchasing techniques to ensure quality, price, delivery, and service.• Designs, implements, manage, and monitor procurement reporting systems to meet company requirements.• Prepares and issues purchase orders and change notices.• Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.• Prepares and reviews contracts, bids, proposals, and vendor agreements for legal correctness, price, and acceptability of items to specifications.• Oversees all activities related to procurement of a commodity, from intent to purchase through delivery of commodity.• Assigns procurement requests to the appropriate personnel.* Also working as a Management Representative for ISO 9001 standard implementation.* Handling the import and export logistics. Show less

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Incharge of Supply Chain, Forecasting, Planning, Negotiation, Procurement and Logistics functions.Coordinates and controls the sourcing, purchasing, inventory control and logistics in support of company.Ensures maximum value is derived from purchase expenditure, ensuring continuity of supply while minimizing inventory investment.Handles purchase of small to large value items often of a highly complex technical nature.Conducts negotiations with local and international vendors… Show more Incharge of Supply Chain, Forecasting, Planning, Negotiation, Procurement and Logistics functions.Coordinates and controls the sourcing, purchasing, inventory control and logistics in support of company.Ensures maximum value is derived from purchase expenditure, ensuring continuity of supply while minimizing inventory investment.Handles purchase of small to large value items often of a highly complex technical nature.Conducts negotiations with local and international vendors for assigned purchases.Maximizes value and optimizes saving by coordinating alternate sourcing of material, product evaluation, lifecycle costing, competitive bidding and price negotiations with suppliers.Ensures the uninterrupted supply of materials and equipment and services to operations.Ensures the timely delivery of materials and services through forward planning, knowledge of lead times, market conditions and by expediting materials and by providing full support to the materials expeditor.Ensures quality requirements are met by adherence to Company specifications.Resolves disputes arising with suppliers concerning quality, price or delivery problems and handles claims and counter claims as they arise. Conducts all commercial transactions on the highest ethical standards and in accordance with good business practice and knowledge of commercial law.Monitors and carries out inventory control functions, including maintaining sufficient quantities of critical materials, controlling additions and recoveries to stock, analyzing idle inventory, excess stock and identifying surplus stock. Reviews catalog descriptions for possible duplication, preparing inventory investment forecast and variance analysis.Negotiates and concludes various special assignments with vendors such as price agreement, consignment and convergence alliance agreements in the most timely, cost effective and ethical manner. Show less

Ahmedabad Area, India

Looking after the paint sales for the western territory of India (Gujarat, MP and Maharashtra)

Mumbai Area, India

Research and development of automotive paints.Worked on metal pretreatment, electrodeposition and automotive OEM paints.

Masters Of Science, Industrial Chemistry ( Paint Technology ), First

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Industrial Chemistry