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Yassin Abdel Ghafar, Foreign Purchasing Manager

Yassin Abdel Ghafar

Foreign Purchasing Manager·Meuble El-Chark Factory

Egypt

Bachelor's degree, Foreign Trade

Work experience

Total years of experience: 24 years, 2 months

Foreign Purchasing Manager

July 2010 - Present

Meuble El-Chark Factory

Cairo, Egypt

July 2010 - Present

 Receive the Purchasing Requests from all departments, approve it, and distribute it on the Foreign Purchasing Representatives.
 Follow up the execution of all Foreign Purchasing Orders, and ensure that they were executed incompliance with the company regulations on time.
 Directing the Foreign Purchasing Representatives and support them in negotiations with supplies.
 Daily follow-up the performance of the Foreign Suppliers.
 Responsible for coordinating with the Financial Department in opening LCs.
 Receiving invoices from the suppliers, submit it to the financial department and follow-up suppliers payments.
 Coordinating with the Logistics Section regarding for customs and transferring issues until receiving the purchased materials in the company Warehouse.
 Approve Receiving Orders for foreign purchases and ensure delivering it to the warehouse.
 Responsible for reporting the credit balances of the foreign suppliers to the purchasing manager on weekly basis.
 Develop, update, and maintain of Foreign Approved Suppliers List.
Source new foreign suppliers to improve quality, price and credit terms for the purchased materials.
 Responsible for handling negotiations with the major foreign suppliers.
 Build strong relationships with major foreign suppliers, especially those supplying the main raw materials needed for production.
 Responsible for evaluating the performance of the foreign suppliers and report it to the Purchasing Manager on monthly basis.
 Receive Foreign Purchase Requests from all departments of the company.
 Close coordination with the financial department in all banking activities and opening LCs.
 Provide the Financial Department with any changes in the prices of foreign materials.
 Coordinate with the Logistics Section regarding customs and couriers issues.
 Close coordination with quality department in evaluating and approving new suppliers.
 Coordinate with Warehousing Section to ensure receiving the foreign purchased materials from the suppliers.
 Lead and direct the Foreign Purchasing Representatives to achieve the department goals.
 Support the Foreign Purchasing Representatives in negotiations with foreign suppliers.
 Evaluate the performance of his subordinates and report it to the purchasing manager quarterly.
 Building strategic relationship with the major foreign suppliers.
 Established foreign suppliers’ evaluation criteria.
 Continuous update the list of approved foreign supplies.
 Develop and implement cost saving plans.

Company industry:
Industrial Production
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Assistant Project Manager

January 2005 - July 2010

Meuble El-Chark Factory

Cairo, Egypt

January 2005 - July 2010

* Responsible for all orders about Import Goods that My company need from abroad and make all the necessary steps from searching about the most important and quality sources from famous companies and start to make a real relation to cooperate with this companies & finally make all financing steps to Import these goods.
* Responsible for and following all orders about Export My company products to our customers just in a good quality in short time from the beginning of production and loading products to containers till the products arrives the customer stores.
* Responsible for establishing fairs booths, decoration, installation and administrative steps.
* Responsible for Reorganizing factory plan by cleaning and standardize all old places.
* Responsible for Rehabilitation employees and workers under supervision of many authorities (governmental or non governmental).
* Sharing company team to prepare the company to have ISO Certificate.
* Building a new relation with Egyptian commercial representation all over the world to have a new customers abroad

Company industry:
Industrial Production
Job role:
Management

Global Trading Coordinator (Import & Export)

November 2002 - January 2005

ITA. International

Cairo, Egypt

November 2002 - January 2005

 Exporting Products of company for the projects out of Egypt.
 Importing Production requirements (Wood - Leather - Painting- Accessories).
 Importing Machines & Spare Parts from abroad.
 Building International Relations with companies of Wood Leather painting accessories throw the Internet.
 Importing Samples and full catalogues to submit to projects consultants and customers to choose the suitable items from the International designs.
 Doing all accounts operations belongs to the International projects (Opening L/C - Direct Transfers - Finishing Projects Accounts)
 Browsing Internet daily, sending & receiving E-mails.
 Responsible about the (Intranet) Internal net of the factory and maintains computer hardware and software also installing computers and the (Intranet) under supervision of IT Manager.
 Helping Employees to solve the problems that face them during working under supervision of IT Manager.
 Doing and follow up payment certificates of the local projects under supervision of Projects Manager.
 Sending & Receiving Packages by International mail and doing all accounting relations with these companies. (FEDEX - ARAMEX - DHL).

Company industry:
Industrial Production
Job role:
Management

Accountant

October 2001 - March 2002

ITA International

Cairo, Egypt

October 2001 - March 2002

Responsible about all accounts of the company (Period of under construction) related to the companies responsible about building the factory

Company industry:
Heavy Industry & Metallurgy
Job role:
Management

Office Manager

February 2001 - February 2001

Blue Bird Business Center

Cairo, Egypt

February 2001 - February 2001

* Responsible about all computers and stuff serving clients & help them to brows Internet, also teaching them how to manage they computers easly.
* Responsible about accounts of clients (Head office).
* Working as an operator (Reception).

Company industry:
Virtual Assistant Services
Job role:
Management

Education

Helwan University

May 1998

May 1998

Bachelor's degree, Foreign Trade

Egypt

GPA (percentage): 76%

GPA (percentage): 76%

Faculty of commerce & Business Administration Bachelor of Foreign Trade. Major: Foreign Trade

Skills

Projects Coordination
Expert
Projects Coordination
Expert
" MS Project
Expert
" MS Project
Expert
MS Power Point
Intermediate
MS Power Point
Intermediate
Internet
Expert
Internet
Expert
MS Word
Expert
MS Word
Expert
AutoCAD
Beginner
AutoCAD
Beginner
Photoshop
Intermediate
Photoshop
Intermediate
MS Excell
Expert
MS Excell
Expert
" MS Project
Expert
" MS Project
Expert
Projects Coordination
Expert
Projects Coordination
Expert

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

World Trade Organization Institute

588

September 2013

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Export
May 2005 - May 2005
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Import and Export Consultant Scholarship
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
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