Oversee and coordinate all logistical operations within the school's international setting, ensuring efficient transportation, procurement, and inventory management to support the smooth functioning of the educational institution. • Logistics Strategy Development: Develop and implement comprehensive logistics strategies aligned with the school's objectives to optimize efficiency and minimize costs. • Transportation Management: Coordinate transportation services for students, staff, and materials, ensuring timely arrivals and departures while adhering to safety standards and regulations. • Procurement and Inventory Management: Manage the procurement process for school supplies, equipment, and materials, ensuring timely delivery and maintaining accurate inventory records. • Vendor Management: Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and suppliers, negotiating contracts and agreements to secure favorable terms and pricing. • Facilities Management: Oversee the maintenance and upkeep of school facilities, including classrooms, dormitories, and recreational areas, to ensure a safe and conducive learning environment. • Budgeting and Cost Control: Develop and manage the logistics department budget, monitoring expenses and implementing cost-saving initiatives where possible. • Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and policies governing logistics operations, and implement measures to mitigate risks and ensure the safety of students and staff. • Team Leadership: Lead and manage a team of logistics professionals, providing guidance, support, and training to optimize performance and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability.

Deliver timely and most cost effective procurement of goods and services in global environment and within company guidelines. Provide overall guidelines and direction to procurement staff worldwide. Work closely with Accounts Payable on reporting and vendor interface. • Purchase Order and Inventory Management: Manage purchase order replenishment process with focus on matching inventory levels (supply) with needs of customers (demand), reducing inventory level 15%. • Spend Analysis and Cost Management: Identify areas needing cost reduction, negotiating leases / contracts and contractual issues with suppliers, improving on-time delivery of 10%. • Supplier Development and Performance Improvement: Effectively manage supplier’s performance by conducting routine supplier business reviews, developing new suppliers or alternative solutions as required, achieving order accuracy rate of 98%. • Project Management and Sourcing: Meet deadline rate of 99% by collaborating with other business units to understand upcoming projects and identify potential sources of supply. • Business Processes and Systems: Implement new processes and procedures focused on improving efficiencies within organizational supply chain, leading to a smoother operation, goods / services delivered to end users faster, vendors paid on time, and complaints handled with satisfactory rating of 99%. • Application Testing and Implementation: Collaborate with IT and Accounts Payable to test, implement and evaluate new applications to streamline procure-to-pay cycle, resulting in better visibility of orders / shipments, reduced workload, and faster payment (fewer late payment penalties).

Manage overseas vendors, evaluate and select best vendors to supply nation’s largest retailers such as Walmart and Kmart. Identify clients needs and requirements, analyze purchase requisitions, review for accuracy and completion, and. Investigate and cultivate new sources of vendors and products. Secure product samples, photos, technical specifications for review, test, and approval. • Purchase Order Management: Supply all orders to nation’s largest retailers on time (annual purchasing volume $300M). • Custom Order Management: Purchase commodities to meet specialized and complex needs, resulting in zero penalties. • Cost Analysis and Sourcing: Issue bid requests to potential vendors, reviewed quotes and secured most competitive bids.

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