Foreign Purchasing

Responsibilities

• Following up on purchasing orders, tracking them, and making the requested purchasing operations and procedures.
• Interact with suppliers daily to resolve transaction issues and gather critical information invoices, tracking info, and tax docs. etc.
• Responsible for appropriate supplier selection/bidding processes for selected purchase requests, and supplier and contract pricing validation for all purchase requests.
• Resolving invoice price and terms discrepancies to enable order processing.
• Receiving the purchase order and specifying the expected date of supply, and notifying the requested party to notify them
• Issue a supply order to the supplier with the best price and quality acceptable to start the procurement process.
• Sending the approved supply order to the supplier in addition to handing over the related documents to the financial management to proceed with the payment procedures.
• Follow-up supply with the supplier, as well as follow-up stores in the completion of the examination, and add-on procedures to start the process of payment of the supplier's receivables.
• Coordinate with the supplier regarding the expected shipping time and confirm the documents required for shipment to avoid any problems that impede the shipping process.
• Follow up the arrival of the goods and coordinate with the customs clearance to end the customs release procedures.
• Find new sources of supply if needed, as well as search for the original supply source (parent company) to get the best prices.

Qualifications

• Fully aware of GAFI rules is a must.
• Having a textile industry background is preferable.
• 3+ years of experience in foreign purchasing
• Have the mentality of continuous improvement.