Office Manager
Al Najjar Construction & Gen. Contracting Co.
Total years of experience :39 years, 10 Months
Al Najjar Construction & Gen. Contracting Co.: Worked as Office Manager, responsible for the below, among other tasks:
• Managing HR Department: Procedures, interviewing candidates, maintaining the employees files, and managing Employees' Annual Leaves.
• Holding and coordinating with accounts; The Cients Accounts.
• Responsible for Clients Payments.
• Coordinating with all departments regarding any situation appears.
• Maintaining importing/exporting procedures.
• Communicating with the suppliers.
• Solving Problems and having Solutions.
• Purchasing office appliances and machines.
• Tickets reservation and purchasing.
• Translation English - Arabic.
Al Rashdan International: Worked as Office
Manager/Shipping Manager, responsible for the below, among other tasks:
• Managing HR Department.
• Holding clients accounts.
1• Following up banks accounts.
• Maintaining importing/exporting procedures and follow up with the suppliers regarding any obstacles.
• Solving Problems.
• Arranging The Management/Directors Board's Meetings.
• Maintaining The Board traveling schedules.
• Purchasing office appliances and machines.
• Tickets reservation and purchasing.
• Translation English - Arabic.
Worked as Shipping and Logistics Manager: Responsible for, among other tasks:
* Checking and approving all Payments, Warehouse Reconciliation, Financial Reconciliation, Letter of Terms and Conditions, LC etc…
* Managing and monitoring the following departments' coding/warehouses/purchasing departments.
* Checking the formulas for cost and selling prices, and make sure that it was applied correctly.
* Instructing the warehouse with the updated steps to be followed when goods are received.
* Managing Insurance account.
* Solving all kind of complications with suppliers and accounts and finding suitable solutions for all concerned.
* Receiving all kinds of analyzing information about each shipment with percentage of the contemporary situation.
Worked as Project Coordinator, responsible for:
* Coordinating all shipments for clients.
* Routing and Clearing Shipments.
* Coordinating shipments and complying with Kuwait Customs Regulations.
* Moving Door to door, Door to port, Freight Consolidation, and Full Container Movement.
* Costing and Invoicing.
* Obtaining all different rates with a certain mark up.
* Regular client visits and working with them closely, and make sure that the process is running smoothly.
Worked as Office Manager; in charge of the Traffic Department (Logistics) till 2004, performing the following among other tasks in managing the department and taking all necessary measurements and actions:
* Placing orders and follow up with the suppliers.
* Dealing with all Ministries, and in particular Ministry of Health.
* Shipments Insurance and Claims Following-up.
* Coordinating information about receiving goods with other divisions.
* Performing export shipments.
* Manage the relationship with the suppliers and maintaining lowering cost for financial savings.
* Managed several accounts and Analyzing results.
* After Sales Service (ASS).
* Worked in Kuwait Duty Free Shops Logistics as a Manager for ten years.
* Monitoring company’s courier account.
* In Charge of purchasing the office appliances.
* Translation (Arabic - English).
In 2004, Worked in the Human Resource Department as an Office Manager and HR Manager Trainee. In order to be the HR Manager, therefore; I dealt with the following:
* Managing the department; policies & procedures.
* Communicating with departments heads and proceed with the agreed arrangement.
* Interviewing applicants for various positions and handling their recruitment.
* Training for the new employees ”Orientation Training”, and other kind of training as needed for the departments of the company.
* Maintained personnel employees files.
* Following employees residencies schedules, and company's licenses with concerned employees.
* Payroll, and instructing banks to execute the payroll on time requested, and coordinating the whole process with the accounts department accordingly.
* Other Tasks along with Good Knowledge with Labor Law.
From 1984 to 1990: Worked as a Secretary and Receptionist. My duties were: Answering Telephones, English and Arabic Typing for: Personnel, Accounts, Warehouses & Sales, preparing different computer forms, helping any department has employee shortage, that enabled me to develop my skills, and handling all correspondence at that time, for the company.
From 1984 to 1990 Worked as a Secretary and Receptionist. My
duties were: answering Telephones, English and Arabic
Typing for: Personnel, Accounts, Warehouses & Sales,
preparing different computer forms, helping any department
that enabled me to develop my skills, handling all
correspondence at that time, for the company.
4 years college of English Translation. More to that, Most of my grades were excellent, but Egyptians Professors tend to dwell with their answers in Arabic. As for me, I go straight ahead to the point. And this is why my grades were not in the range of 90%.