Berna Yaacoub
Senior Procurement Specialist And Logistics Manager
Beirut
Summary
To leverage my extensive experience in procurement and logistics management to contribute effectively to an organization's operations, ensuring streamlined processes, cost efficiency, and optimal resource utilization.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
24
24
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Language
Work History
Senior Procurement Specialist & Logistics Manager
ZUHAIR MURAD SAL
11.2016 - Current
- Purchase goods, materials, components in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets in support of the multiple departments.
- Negotiating on pricing, payment terms, lead time, delivery due date and/or other options available.
- Reviewing, comparing, and analyzing quotes, then issue POs upon approval of senior management.
- Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities.
- Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers.
- Provide analysis of costs, new and existing and review cost reduction activities.
- Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
- Compile data relating to supplier performance to enable evaluation.
- Assess and evaluate suppliers and contribute to performance reviews to ensure contract compliance.
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues.
- Handle the inbound, outbound, and cross shipments from/to the head office in Lebanon and to all of ZUHAIR MURAD branches around the world (Dubai, UK, Swiss, and France).
- Launches the shipping process and prepares all required documentation upon receiving a purchase invoice.
- Contacts freight forwarders to make shipping arrangements and follows-up on deliveries.
- Tracks shipping orders to inform respective parties of loading locations, clearing instructions, and delivery arrivals.
- Prepare all required shipping documentation to facilitate clearing at the point of destination.
- Follow-up between the production departments and the sales to ensure the orders are ready and shipped to the clients on time.
- Instructs warehouse staff on the type of packaging and dimensions to use for outgoing shipments.
- Checks and validates invoices from freight forwarders and submits them to the Accounting & Finance Department for processing.
- Works to optimize shipping costs at every opportunity.
Senior Logistics and merchandising executive
Boutique 1 Sal
10.2011 - 10.2016
- Communicate with the brands and follow up with their representatives for orders, bookings, invoices, payments, shipments for almost 40 brands every season.
- Discuss pricing strategies to apply.
- Negotiate for discounts and / or other actions to take when goods pass cancellation dates.
- Plan the markdown of each brand depending on the ST, season, and all other functions.
- Responsible for the negotiation of and control of supplier delivery windows.
- Provide weekly ST reports for all the brands and analyze on the best sellers/ poor performers with buyers and actions to take.
- Provide weekly credit supplier sheet reports, prepare payment sheets of suppliers, and send them to the accounting department.
- Report regularly on all activities included within the job responsibilities (delivery windows, order status, lead time, credit suppliers, payments, credit notes, new arrivals).
- Improved management of supply chain through focusing on and negotiation with suppliers.
- Do weekly market visits with the retail manager to cover the most possible luxury shops, especially the competitors that carry the same brands.
- Liaise with head office stockroom to create purchase orders and reordering on basics and repeats.
- Responsible for all levels of stock control and handling all tasks related to stock room from receipt of the initial order to delivery at store level.
- Manage the stockroom keeper to conduct daily / weekly / monthly inventory.
Senior Logistics and merchandising executive
Boutique 1 Sal
10.2011 - 10.2016
- Communicate with the brands and follow up with their representatives for orders, bookings, invoices, payments, shipments for almost 40 brands every season.
- Discuss pricing strategies to apply.
- Negotiate for discounts and / or other actions to take when goods pass cancellation dates.
- Plan the markdown of each brand depending on the ST, season, and all other functions.
- Responsible for the negotiation of and control of supplier delivery windows.
- Provide weekly ST reports for all the brands and analyze on the best sellers/ poor performers with buyers and actions to take.
- Provide weekly credit supplier sheet reports, prepare payment sheets of suppliers, and send them to the accounting department.
- Report regularly on all activities included within the job responsibilities (delivery windows, order status, lead time, credit suppliers, payments, credit notes, new arrivals).
- Improved management of supply chain through focusing on and negotiation with suppliers.
- Do weekly market visits with the retail manager to cover the most possible luxury shops, especially the competitors that carry the same brands.
- Liaise with head office stockroom to create purchase orders and reordering on basics and repeats.
- Responsible for all levels of stock control and handling all tasks related to stock room from receipt of the initial order to delivery at store level.
- Manage the stockroom keeper to conduct daily / weekly / monthly inventory.
Air clearing officer
Fast Mondial & Marine
05.2010 - 09.2011
- Follow up with the clients on the personal documents requested for the clearance daily.
- Responsible for the coordination between the clients and the transit team in case of any issues with the clearance process.
- Following up on the documents (invoices, packing list, Eur1...) when the clearance starts and ensure receiving everything required.
- Internal follow up with the air import and agents regarding the requested documents for the clearance / preapproving on the documents so to avoid any delay or amendment after the shipment arrives.
- Data entry of the customs duties, HAWB and trucking details of all the shipments that are being cleared with our team.
- Coordinate with the internal auditors of the company concerning the mode of payments of each client.
- Deal with clients and all sections to ensure a proper delivery of goods within the allocated date and time.
Air clearing officer
Fast Mondial & Marine
05.2010 - 09.2011
- Follow up with the clients on the personal documents requested for the clearance daily.
- Responsible for the coordination between the clients and the transit team in case of any issues with the clearance process.
- Following up on the documents (invoices, packing list, Eur1...) when the clearance starts and ensure receiving everything required.
- Internal follow up with the air import and agents regarding the requested documents for the clearance / preapproving on the documents so to avoid any delay or amendment after the shipment arrives.
- Data entry of the customs duties, HAWB and trucking details of all the shipments that are being cleared with our team.
- Coordinate with the internal auditors of the company concerning the mode of payments of each client.
- Deal with clients and all sections to ensure a proper delivery of goods within the allocated date and time.
Assistant store manager
Ralph Lauren (Etoile Fashion)
08.2007 - 04.2010
- Direct contact and resolving all kinds of problems with the clients with high professionalism.
- Handling new collections and contacting clients.
- Handling the visual merchandising of the shop.
- Team leader of 5 salesmen.
- Organizing seminars for salesmen.
- Organizing timetable for salesmen.
Assistant store manager
Ralph Lauren (Etoile Fashion)
08.2007 - 04.2010
- Direct contact and resolving all kinds of problems with the clients with high professionalism.
- Handling new collections and contacting clients.
- Handling the visual merchandising of the shop.
- Team leader of 5 salesmen.
- Organizing seminars for salesmen.
- Organizing timetable for salesmen.
Assistant Shop Manager / Administrative Assistant
Depeche Mode (Depeche Mode sal)
05.2005 - 08.2007
- Direct contact with clients.
- Handling new collections.
- Solving all kind of problems.
- Ensuring the cash in and out from the shops to the banks.
- Handling new arrivals: receive the invoices on the system, apply the prices, and dispatch the merchandise between the shops.
- Ensuring proper inventories.
- Handling communication with different suppliers.
- Handling communication between the different shops.
- Filing for all kind of papers and folders.
Assistant Shop Manager / Administrative Assistant
Depeche Mode (Depeche Mode sal)
05.2005 - 08.2007
- Direct contact with clients.
- Handling new collections.
- Solving all kind of problems.
- Ensuring the cash in and out from the shops to the banks.
- Handling new arrivals: receive the invoices on the system, apply the prices, and dispatch the merchandise between the shops.
- Ensuring proper inventories.
- Handling communication with different suppliers.
- Handling communication between the different shops.
- Filing for all kind of papers and folders.
Assistant Shop Manager
JENNYFER (R.M.G sal)
01.2004 - 05.2005
- Direct contact and resolving all kinds of problems with the clients with high professionalism.
- Receiving new collections.
- Displaying the new collection in the shop.
- Solving all kinds of problems.
Assistant Shop Manager
JENNYFER (R.M.G sal)
01.2004 - 05.2005
- Direct contact and resolving all kinds of problems with the clients with high professionalism.
- Receiving new collections.
- Displaying the new collection in the shop.
- Solving all kinds of problems.
Education
Master in Luxury Fashion Management
Rome Business School
Italy 04.2001 - 01.2025
BA - Public Relations (with distinction)
American University of Science and Technology
Baccalaureate Level 2 - General Science
Sainte Famille Maronite
Skills
Microsoft Office
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- Date of Birth: 04 December 1984
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Lebanese
- Marital Status: Single
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Arabic
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Senior Procurement Specialist & Logistics Manager
ZUHAIR MURAD SAL
11.2016 - Current
Senior Logistics and merchandising executive
Boutique 1 Sal
10.2011 - 10.2016
Senior Logistics and merchandising executive
Boutique 1 Sal
10.2011 - 10.2016
Air clearing officer
Fast Mondial & Marine
05.2010 - 09.2011
Air clearing officer
Fast Mondial & Marine
05.2010 - 09.2011
Assistant store manager
Ralph Lauren (Etoile Fashion)
08.2007 - 04.2010
Assistant store manager
Ralph Lauren (Etoile Fashion)
08.2007 - 04.2010
Assistant Shop Manager / Administrative Assistant
Depeche Mode (Depeche Mode sal)
05.2005 - 08.2007
Assistant Shop Manager / Administrative Assistant
Depeche Mode (Depeche Mode sal)
05.2005 - 08.2007
Assistant Shop Manager
JENNYFER (R.M.G sal)
01.2004 - 05.2005
Assistant Shop Manager
JENNYFER (R.M.G sal)
01.2004 - 05.2005
Master in Luxury Fashion Management
Rome Business School
04.2001 - 01.2025
BA - Public Relations (with distinction)
American University of Science and Technology
Baccalaureate Level 2 - General Science
Sainte Famille Maronite
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