Firas Khatib

• 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: Jordanian, leading real estate investment and development Company
, head-quartered in Amman - Jordan.

Type of Materials and activities handled: building materials, furniture, decor materials, landscaping, gardening materials, plants, finishing mate, contracting, Services, office supplies and equipment, Logistics’, warehousing, telecommunications, Insurance, Clearance, Maintenance & Shutdowns.
• Position: Procurement & logistics Manager.
• Industry: real-estate development and construction.
• Reporting To: General Manager & CEO.

Job Description & Achievements:

• Handling all purchasing activities of a group of companies ( Alqabas, Andalucia, Red Sea resort, Almushata Industrial Area, Aljeezah and Abdaliah )
• Establishing and Managing warehouses and the delivery processes leading to optimum space utilization and smooth operations.
• Establishing and maintain a modern and efficient procurement and inventory system.
• Build a strong relation ship with the main suppliers of building and various materials in the local and international market.
• Import materials from various factories and suppliers worldwide according to the specifications required of each project.
• Follow up orders and shipments till it reaches the final destinations in the main warehouses or projects
• Coordinate with the engineering Departments to secure their requirements according to specifications and scheduled delivery time.
• Watching the consumption of each project to decrease wastage and wrong usage of materials

• Company: Saudi Arabian Group, leading Building Materials and investment Group head-quartered in Khobar - KSA .

Type of Materials and activities handled: building materials, Hand Tools, Power tools, DIY products, carpenters and general Hardware e.
• Position: Procurement&Logestics Manager.
• Industry: Trading Company with branches in Bahrain, Qatar, UAE .
• Reporting To: General Manager .

Job Description & Achievements:

• leading all purchasing activities of the Hardware division (Local & Overseas).
• Securing the required material for 42 showrooms covering KSA, Bahrain and Qatar, as well as the needs of the project division.
• Sourcing of materials.
• Controlling inventory by monitoring the stock levels and replenishing the moving items for more than 4500 SKU.
• Managing the warehousing and the delivery processes leading to optimum space utilization and smooth operations.
• Maintaining high diversification of products and chasing the latest models and sources.
• Establishing new Agencies and Sole Distribution ship Agreements of highly reputed Companies

Duties:
• Taking care of all of company operation.
• Building solid relationships with main companies in our field inside an outside Jordan.
• Following up national Bids for major companies.

Duties:
• Handling all managerial activities.
• Building solid relation ships with Factories and Hospitality industries.
• Communications with Overseas suppliers and agencies.
• All commercial daily work.
• Follow us with shipping companies, transportation companies, customs house, clearance companies and banks.
• Follow up the governmental Bids.
• Communications and official work with tax departments.

Duties:
• Keeping good relation ship with customers.
• Expand number of customers.
• Visiting the factories in the industrial cities.
• Handling correspondences with suppliers.
• Preparing local proforma invoices and follow us L/C's.