Purchasing & Planning Supervisor

• Maintain Suppliers records up to date.
• Maintain purchasing data base up to date.
• Maintain tracking records of all POs and update OMs in regular basis.
• Maintain proper system to track goods & services POs to be delivered on time.
• Highlight the risk of price increase in any material.
• Highlight the risk of shortage in any material due to supplier issues.
• Update the price matrix on monthly basis.
• Make sure to maintain 3 suppliers for every item impacting the customer supply.
• Develop payment terms with suppliers and reduce the cash purchase.
• Improve the response time to buy the goods and services requested by the functional departments and approved by OMs.
• Reduce the gap between the PSR / PO/ RIR process.
• Lead the procurement group in all phases
• Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions.
• Report the department KPl's and analyze the reasons of any deviation from the target.
• Report the supplier's evaluation report and keep records in proper way.
• Follow up the action plan for all audits and close all open items on time.
• Work with auditors in professional manner.
• Keep all purchasing department records in proper way all the time. 
• Production Planning:
• Responsible for production planning "include sampling and maintenance activities" and proper communication with all related departments, optimizes production and equipment scheduling to reduce changeovers, and achieve change over objective.

Education/ Professional Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or similar in related field or equivalent

Experience

• 5-8 years working experience in purchasing.
• 1 to 3 years of Supply chain position experience, and/or manufacturing environment
• Plastic and packaging & spare parts experience.
• Experience in foreign and local purchasing processes.
• Experience in Saudis Arabia.
• Experience in packaging or similar
• Previous position as a supervisor or manager

Qualifications/ Skills/ Personal Competencies

• Excellent negotiating skills
• High ethical and moral standards
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and behave in a professional manner
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Good computer skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Ability to use specific logistics/warehouse systems, such as SAP, Oracle . applications (MRP and ERP modules)