Head Of Logistics
Mattex Group
Total years of experience :18 years, 3 Months
● Working with a leading Manufacturer and Exporter of Primary / Secondary Carpet backing, Artificial grass tufting, Yarns, Polypropylene Staple Fiber and Non-woven Geotextile products in Saudi Arabia, All these products are ideal in carpet industry, sports and leisure, Non-woven geotextile are ideal for most applications where separation, filtration and draining is required. Road works, access roads, railway applications, car parks and industrial units etc.
● Handling and monitoring all 3 Factories - Mattex Geo - Jubail, Mattex Fabrics - Jeddah and Green Vision - Jeddah while based in Jeddah, looking after Import / Export and local shipments end to end for the above products, raw materials and spare parts (Air, Sea & Land) from Jubail / Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to USA, Europe, Oceania, Africa, Asia & Far East and vice-versa.
● Responsible, monitoring and budgeting all project shipments related to logistics.
● Arranging tenders, RFQ and managing & negotiating most competitive Transportation Rates - Ocean/Air and Land with Local / GCC Freight Forwarders/ fleet operators / Transporters, and their representatives for Local and Export Ocean/Air and Land transportation.
● Planning and arranging for stuffing goods, based on GRD (Goods Readiness date), managing shipping and custom clearing activities.
● Participating in development of BI reports along with INFOR ERP team to improve day to day reports.
● Executing and managing Custom Duty Exemption filing, interacting with respective department in gathering required info to obtain exemptions.
● Successfully Obtain Duty Exemption resulting in milestone achievment (saving millions of Duty amount adding to the company profit) by obtaining complete Production Capacity of required Raw materials and Spare parts
● Interaction with Sales, Finance and production to guideline in preparation of Letter of Credit shipments.
● Managing Custom clearance providers for respective mode of transportation.
● Preparation of logistic budget based on sales forecast region wise.
● Managing proper shipping documentation to make sure import / export custom clearance runs smoothly without any hurdle or delay.
● Responsible for analyzing service level and cost (Air, Sea & Land) with existing service providers / Forwarding Agents, Custom clearing agents, recommending carriers and routing; to obtain the best rates and transit time to export consignments, competing with current market.
● Verifying service provider invoices based on agreed contract rates to arrange payment.
● Responsible to guide Sales Department in relation to the INCO term (Air, Sea & Land), technically with explanation to develop strong business and obtain opportunities.
● Organizing meeting with forwarding agent, custom clearing agent for proper documentation and follow up, suggesting for smooth clearance.
● Managing team, arranging monthly meeting and monitoring on demurrages / discrepancies (if any) to overcome the problem.
● Managing training for new employees - right from the documentation to end of shipping requirement.
● Managing internal reports, analyzing on statistical reports and working out total costing until landing.
● Reporting directly to SBUD (Sales Business Unit Director) and Director Group Supply Chain.
● Suggested and implemented new SOP for Import / Export to run smooth operation and obtaining Duty Exemption for complete Production capacity that increased business by 45%.
● Independently handling Export shipments (Air & Sea) from Dammam, Saudi Arabia to USA, Europe, Africa, Asia and Far East.
● Resposible for Pricing - Negotiating Rates (Air & Sea) with Shipping Lines and Airlines - GSA Agents directly, to obtain the best rates to export consignements, competing with current market.
● Responsible for Negotiating Rates with Transporter, Crane & Heavy equipment Operators, Open Ware house Terminal Managers and their representatives for any export service matters.
● Responsible to quote Sales Department, Local Customer, Overseas Forwarding Agent as per the INCO term (Air & Sea), convincing technically with explanation to develop the business.
● Interaction between Sales department, customer, service provider & forwarder in maintaining timely follow-up and updates to respective persons and to ensure prompt delivery of cargo at destination.
● Organizing meeting with client, advising customer for proper documentation, suggesting correct type of container as per the dimension & packing list of the cargo provided, further guiding Customer, Sales Team, and Oversea Agent with the current Export clearance procedure and docs required for smooth clearance.
● Responsible for arranging Export Road transportation within GCC countries.
● Managing Operation team, arranging monthly meeting and monitoring on demurrages and discrepancies to overcome the problem.
● Responsible for training the newly joined employees - right from the documentation to end of shipping requirement until close of file.
● Monitor immediate junior employees, suggest and advise them technically to handle smooth operation to overcome any problem.
● Co-ordinating with manifest to keep alert and advise customer / Forwarding Agent, timely on departure and expected arrival of their shipments at destination port.
● Providing time to time updated status report to customers / Forwarding Agent every fornight on their running shipments.
● Preparing internal reports, analyzing on statistical reports and working out total costing until landing.
● Besides routine job, helping IT department in futher devolping softwares for freight forwarding system.
● Responsible for IT maintainance in Dammam Branch.
● Suggested and implemented new ideas that increased business by 47%.
Independently handling Import shipments (Air & Sea) from USA, Europe, Asia and Far East.
● Responsible for Negotiating Rates (Air & Sea) with Freight Forwarding Companies abroad to get the best
rock bottom rates to bring consignments, competing with market.
● Responsible to quote Local Customer and Sales Department as per the INCO term (Air & Sea) and
convince them technically with elaboration to grow the business.
● Interaction between Sales department, customer & forwarder and maintaining timely follow-up with the
forwarders to ensure prompt delivery of cargo and shipping documents.
● Arranging legalized documents prior to the arrival of shipment.
● Monitor and handling Custom clearance sometimes at peak season for the esteemed client.
● Arranging transportation locally to carry the goods from port to designated w/house, stores / delivery
point.
● Providing time to time updated status report to Local Customers on their forth coming shipments.
● Helping IT department in further developing and overcoming best solution for tailor -made special
software - FAMS (Freight Advance Management System)
● Responsible for IT maintenance in Dammam Branch.
2nd Year incomplete