The role's main activity or deliverables are:
- Responsible for Procurement activities for assigned vessels and division within the group organizations.
- Handle fleet requisitions, RFQ, process PO’s, monitor delivery, and update relevant stakeholders.
- Identifies, evaluates & approves suppliers. Monitors performance of suppliers to ensure continued cost-effective quality service / material provision.
- Ensure requisitions from supervisors and managers for goods or services are received, processed, and controlled in a timely manner.
- Analyse quotations to ensure compliance with requirements, prepare quote comparisons, and recommend approvals.
- Ensure timely follow-up, shipment, and delivery of items.
- Manage overseas purchasing with attention to incoterms, shipping documentation, and cost-effective freight arrangements.
- Negotiate and monitor freight rates, logistics contracts, and shipment consolidation to optimize transportation costs.
- Coordinate with local agents, freight forwarders, and port authorities in Syria to ensure smooth customs clearance, last-mile delivery, and compliance with sanctions and trade regulations.
- Anticipate and mitigate risks related to delays, congestion, or route restrictions by planning alternative supply channels and closely monitoring costs such as demurrage and detention.
- Track and monitor shipments, ensuring stakeholders are updated.
- Assist line manager in identifying regularly procured goods/services for frame agreements, introducing suppliers, and implementing agreements.
- Develop new and strategic suppliers to save cost, improve quality, and strengthen sourcing partnerships.
- Maintain supplier prequalification lists, prepare new supplier accounts, and analyze vendor performance to support sourcing strategies.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and logistics partners to ensure reliable and quality service.
- Assist finance in resolving discrepancies related to supplier invoice processing.
- Review and act on Open Requisitions and PO reports to comply with departmental KPIs.
Support line manager in any other procurement-related tasks as required for the business.
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What We Do
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 108,000 employees, spanning 74 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future. We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses – Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. What’s more, we’re reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door. We make trade flow, to change what’s possible for everyone.
