• Company: Jordanian, cement manufacturing, head-quartered in Amman - Jordan.
Type of Materials and activities handled: Machinery, Heavy, Heavy equipment, Spare parts, Fuel, Services, office supplies and equipment, Logistics’, warehousing, telecommunications, Insurance, Clearance, Maintenance & Shutdowns.
• Position: Materials Director.
• Industry: clinker and cement plant.
• Reporting To: General Manager.
Achievements:
• Achieved saving of more than 15 million JD of the budget figures
• Lead the company and the market to source and use coal and petcoke instead of HFO
• Built a strong warehouse and procurement department and team with efficient policies and procedures.
Job Description:
• Plans, directs, and manages the central procurement activities of ARC Jordan.
• Develops, reviews, and approves new or improved administrative, purchasing, and clerical procedures for head office and plant to maintain economy and efficiency of operation.
• Manages the business case side of implementing the ERP procurement module and all tasks related.
• Approves bid proposals and specifications, composes requests and presents recommendations on purchases requiring management approval.
• Evaluates overall revisions, price and past performance of each contract and approves price increases.
• Budget for and oversees expenditures towards staffing, raw material purchasing and capital purchases for Operations with cooperation with plant management and Budgeting Dept.
• Direct and coordinate the establishment of production schedules and resource allocation personnel for work schedules, materials, equipment to meet customer orders
• Budget for and oversees expenditures towards staffing, raw material purchasing and capital purchases for Operations.
• Set criteria for supply sources and establish approvals, standards and certifications.
• Closing deals and final negotiation of all supply and service contracts.
• Manages all key supplier relationships, including external manufacturing partners.
• Directs and formulates procedures and policies to insure that materials are available to support production schedules and customer service targets levels.
• Manages and controls inventory investment to set goals and objectives .
• Interacts with Quality Assurance on matters of vendor delivered quality and vendor rating systems.
• Establishes and maintain purchasing systems and procedures to ensure honest, fair, legally correct and ethical relationships with all suppliers.
• Maintains liaison with purchasing representatives of other public jurisdictions to join in cooperative buying when this will result in savings.
• Over view and manage operations of physical flows management (reception, warehousing, orders preparation, expedition), by optimizing the quality / costs / lead-time.
• Researches and evaluates commodity areas and makes recommendations for standardization and additions to qualified products and vendor List.
• Supervises and participates in the preparation of written financial and administrative reports.
• Creates responses to special correspondence and handles special assignments and problems such as responses to ARC plant inquiries and bid protests.
• Establishes priorities, assigns workloads and reviews the more difficult and complex assignments.
• Interprets contract provisions and reviews contracts for accuracy and changes prior to bid and renewal.
• Provides liaison between vendors, contractors, and ARC department officials.
• Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.
• Planning future ARC materials capacity and warehouse requirements.
• Coordinates with Human Resources for interviewing jointly department personnel and making technical / functional related recommendations of hiring as needed.
• Leads and communicates with team members as appropriate.
- Company industry:
- Industrial Production
- Job role:
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Purchasing and Procurement
