BASSAM G. ANTOUN

Organization Overview: UNICEF is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. Website: www.unicef.org

• Serve as Procurement Focal Point for key programme sections including WASH, Emergency, Child Protection, Social and Behaviour Change (SBC), Education, and Adolescent Development, ensuring timely, strategic, and compliant procurement planning and execution in line with UNICEF procedures and programme needs.
• Lead Market Knowledge & Development and actively contribute to Cost Efficiency projects to inform evidence-based procurement planning, widen market engagement, enhance supplier performance, and ensure value-for-money procurement outcomes.
• Manage end-to-end solicitation processes (RFQs, ITBs, RFPs), working in close coordination with programme teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure effective tendering and the delivery of high-quality goods and services.
• Oversee the establishment, extension, and performance management of Long-Term Arrangements (LTAs) and contracts, including proactive monitoring and closure actions.
• Develop qualitative supply plans in collaboration with programme sections, applying technical procurement expertise, market knowledge, and sourcing strategies to ensure alignment with programme objectives and operational timelines.
• Contribute to emergency preparedness and response through active engagement in the development and implementation of the Emergency Supply Plan, in coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to capacity-building initiatives with implementing partners to strengthen their procurement systems, promoting transparency, impartiality, competitiveness, and improved value for money.
• Serve as a member of the Learning & Development Committee (LDC), supporting the review and approval of staff learning requests to promote equitable and impactful development opportunities.
• Act as Security Warden for the W7A1 area, conducting headcounts and communicating security updates and protocols to staff in coordination with the Security team.

• Reviews and evaluates incoming supply requisitions and requests to ensure quality and adequacy of information, specifications, appropriateness of requests, quantities, shipment, delivery dates, budgets. Provides Emergency Support to the Country Offices.
• Reviews material specifications and requirements with customers, countries, the technical counterparts and Quality Assurance Centre to ensure completeness and appropriateness. Ensures that customers’ claims/complaints are processed in collaboration with Shipping and Quality Assurance Centre. Ensures Pre-Delivery Inspection is performed, and goods released for shipment accordingly.
• Reviews daily the sales orders, monitors, and follows up on progress of sales orders to ensure that commitments entered into are met. Reviews requests for Local Procurement and in cooperation with technical unit issues LPAs / Blanket LPAs for authorisation and follow up.
  Monitor the appropriate stock level in SD warehouse and SD controlled hubs and take action to ensure timely warehouse replenishment.
• Pro-actively follows up on placed orders and deliveries with all parties concerned in order to ensure timely and safe delivery of goods.
• Transmits all relevant information to customer including changes to planned deliveries, to facilitate delivery and customs clearance of shipments.
• Prepares and provides timely and regular status / monitoring reports to customers.
• Monitors supplier's performance. Provides input to the Centre’s KPI reports and coordinates BU's analysis of late orders.
• Maintains order filing in accordance with UNICEF guidelines.
  

• Served as Procurement Focal Point for key programme sections including WASH, Emergency, Child Protection, Social and Behaviour Change (SBC), Education, and Adolescent Development, ensuring timely, strategic, and compliant procurement planning and execution in line with UNICEF procedures and programme needs.
• Managed end-to-end solicitation processes (RFQs, ITBs, RFPs), working in close coordination with programme teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure effective tendering and the delivery of high-quality goods and services.
• Oversaw the establishment, extension, and performance management of Long-Term Arrangements (LTAs) and contracts, including proactive monitoring and closure actions.
• Developed qualitative supply plans in collaboration with programme sections, with applying technical procurement expertise, market knowledge, and sourcing strategies to ensure alignment with programme objectives and operational timelines.
• Contributed to emergency preparedness and response through active engagement in the development and implementation of the Emergency Supply Plan, in coordination with internal and external stakeholders.

• Managed all import and export operations for the Lebanon Country Office, including shipments for UNICEF staff and deliveries to implementing partners.
• Served as the Logistics Focal Point for the UNICEF Syria Country Office, coordinating cold chain and emergency supply shipments in collaboration with both country and regional offices.
• Coordinated with warehouse teams to support inventory management, stock counts, physical verifications, and distributions.
• Supported tender processing and the evaluation of received proposals in coordination with procurement colleagues and programme sections.
• Chaired the Bid Opening Committee, ensuring transparency, accountability, and procedural compliance during the opening of received submissions as part of the competitive procurement process.
• Contributed to emergency preparedness by supporting the development and implementation of the Emergency Supply Plan and actively engaging in real-time logistics response.

Company Overview: Mitsulift Lebanon is a Joint-Venture with Mitsubishi Elevators and Escalators, Japan. Website: www.mitsulift.com

• Handle all procurement activities including Request for Quotation, negotiation with supplier on prices, payment terms and delivery terms.
• Place Purchase Orders and follow up on delivery.
• Handle payments to suppliers including issuing L/C.
• Handle and manage import, export and cross shipping process.
• Follow up on delivery, sailing and arrival dates.
• Follow up on shipping documents and clearance.
• Handle shipment insurance and control custom clearance formalities.
• Control supplier and shipping invoices and prepare costing files.
• Assist the Logistics Manager in various tasks, follow ups and reports.

Company Overview: Capelli New York designs, manufactures and markets on-trend private label and branded fashion products for Women, Men, Teens, and Kids. Website: www.capellinewyork.com

• Handle inventories of certain commodities such as Rainwear, Outerwear, Indoor Slippers, Injected EVA and Novelty using Aria software and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
• Request booking of purchase orders from GMA factories and other buyers in China.
• Allocate inventory for purchase orders after receiving sales orders from Sales department.
• Place new buys on inventories after receiving them from Production department.
• Capelli New York designs, manufactures and markets on-trend private label and branded fashion products for Women, Men, Teens, and Kids. Website: www.capellinewyork.com

• Training on JD Edwards EntrepriseOne 8.12 - Inventory Management System module.

• Retrieve Customers Selling Data and place them on the Master Database.
• Issue Customer Selling Reports and send them to Sales Department in USA.