Specification Manager
SMC interiors
Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months
• Interact with Consultants/ Architects/ Interior Designers/ Mechanical Engineers/ Specification writers to create from the design stage optimum personalized decorative, safe& professional valued Solutions.
• Develop and execute strategies to specify SMC interiors Architectural Ceiling and Wall Cladding System with consultants& interior designers in Contracts, Governmental & Mega projects inside Saudi Arabia.
• Responsible to provide added value project solutions on current under design project starting from the concept schematic design to ongoing& existing projects.
• Retrieve the Schematic Design& elevations, Study them with our Design team& then provide technical specifications& take off for the projects in the design stage.
• Organizing suppliers visit& seminars inside the kingdom to maintain a long term& potential relationship with our consultants& clients.
• Keep myself up to date with the latest worldwide innovations related to Architectural ceiling Systems by attending seminars in many countries and lately attending the KNAUF DANOLINE training school in DENMARK.
• Organize& prepare technical presentations and submittals.
• Actively work with consultants& contractors to ensure alignment of technical specifications through technical submittals and pre-qualifications.
• Identify new areas of activities and regularly report on competitors' activities in the weekly reports such as marketing pricing, market size, new entrants and other related market information.
• Build positive relationships with customers that will generate future sales and repeat business.
• Checking and reviewing the POs upon receiving the original PP from the material control system.
• Assigning a coordinator who will handle the material process based on the circulated assignment of material, then forward the original PO to the assigned coordinator to proceed with the standard processing and procedure.
• Responsible in controlling and managing the sourcing activities and providing resources to the group.
• Responsible for assigning a coordinator/ sourcing coordinator for:
1. Continuous evaluation of market to explore challenging areas of operations.
2. Research the market.
3. Source new suppliers.
4. Ensure availability of resources.
5. Compliance over price list/approved quotation and managing it.
• Responsible for approving the pre-evaluation of supplier.
• Responsible for carrying out spend analysis and presenting final results/ recommendation to the purchasing director.
• Receiving form the purchasing director a monthly performances report of coordinators and buyers.
• Sending minutes of meeting of the group to the purchasing director.
• Maintaining a work environment, promotes initiative, team work and full coordination and cooperation with the team
• Monitor all the Import& Export transactions (Electronic communication between Beneficiary and Applicant)
• Negotiation with the suppliers till opening the LC or issuing the money transfer.
• Follow up with the suppliers to ensure all commitment delivered on time.
• Maintain update record on transactions.
• Assist the GM to implement approved purchasing strategies for assigned goods and services.
• Attend the CEVISAMA fair in Spain, CERSAIE fair in Italy and the CANTON fair in China on yearly basis (As An Agent and Display).
• Follow up all the bank issues regarding the letter of credit (Issuance, Follow up, Checking related swifts, filling documents, letter of acceptance, refusal and amendment).
• In charge of the shipments once it leave the port of loading till it reach the POD (Booking, hold, swift BL, COD, payment checks, follow up containers routing, requisites for import& export issues and documentations, freight rates negotiation and various instructions required by the shipping companies especially MSC and CMA.
• Responsible for releasing the containers from ports of destination especially port of Beirut, contact the forwarder and prepare the shipping documents (Commercial Invoice, Packing List, Weight List, Swift, PI, Delivery order and Bill of Lading).
• In charge for a volume of shipments that exceeds 65 containers monthly.
• Familiar with inspection subjected to the goods in china where the office in china gives all the details of the goods once inspected there.
• Reconciliation statement of accounts on monthly basis.
• Bank reconciliation.
• Worked with the bank accounts, bank deposits, withdrawals, transfers (Internal and external).
• Replenished and controlled petty cash.
• Prepared prepayments, provisions for fees and expenses.
• Analyzed and monitored sales income, special sales promotions, supplier and returns.
Bachelor in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting. Courses Taken: General Accounting, Cost Accounting, Finance, Introduction to Marketing, International Marketing, Management, Purchasing Management, Business law, Production Management, Statistics, Financial Management, feasibility Study.