Farah Ismail
Oshawa,Ontario
Summary
Highly-motivated Procurement specialist, with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Coordinator / Buyer /Senior Supply Chain Analyst
BRENNTAG Canada
07.2007 - Current
- Analyze material movements and determine volumes needed to source and timelines based on open orders and customer forecasts.
- Prepare POA and seek appropriate authorization levels
- Manage and execute domestic and international bulk purchases for eastern Canada by following established SOP and best practices
- Collaborate with internal and external partners in coordinating the safe transportations of all purchases via ships, rails or transport trucks to the desired locations.
- Handle all invoice corrections from supply and transportation partners.
- Maintain proper documentations and filling for auditing purposes
- Meet with members of Operations, transportation and product management weekly to ensure proper exchange of information to ensure ease of material movement.
- Implement cost-saving measures by negotiating contracts with suppliers for reduced pricing.
Administrative/Inventory Clerk
QUANTUM MANAGEMENT-GTAA
12.2006 - 04.2007
- Responsible for handling the archiving of all the previous two years filling systems also creating and maintain filling system for current year
- Responsible to maintain and update the inventory system in Oracle, including processing stocking requests
- Perform spot checks on material movement between Sub-inventories
- Reviewing/verifying input/output documentation for accuracy and initiate adjustment/correction on all discrepancies
- Possess basic knowledge and experience in consumable inventory management processes
- Assist Inventory Buyer with purchasing related procedures.
Product Coordinator / Buyer
TEMPS 4 YOU - BRENNTAG Canada
04.2006 - 10.2006
- Managed all bulk chemical purchases and freight arrangements both domestic and international
- Responsible for billing customers and handling all invoice corrections, issued to customers and those anticipated from suppliers
- Maintain proper documentations and filling for auditing purposes
- Handle all issues in a timely manner and provide feedback to both customers and suppliers to raise the level of customer satisfaction and supplier cooperation.
Technical Support Specialist
CONVERGYS Corporation
09.2004 - 09.2005
- Took calls for the inbound national help desk queue
- Assisted customers resolve internet connection and/or e-mail related issues.
Coordinator/Trainer/Admin Assistant
JDS UNIPHASE
09.1999 - 01.2003
- Administrative Assistant: Maintained the director’s schedule
- Generated weekly reports to the senior management
- Organized all special events for the department
- Provided a variety of office supports to staffs of 15+ (faxing, photocopying, processed incoming and outgoing mail)
- Trainer: Provided both internal and external training for the department’s new hires
- Created and conducted assessment programs for our business unit
- Created a system that would track of all trained individuals and their skills
- Coordinator: Provided accessible communication link between the management and the team
- Monitored and motivated the team to attain the mandated objective.
GTAA - Contracting
- Responsible for updating and maintaining filling and archiving for end of year
- Assisted the Contracting unit with any administrative clerical work (drafting official letters, requesting support documents from contractors & subcontractors etc.
Education
Business Administration -
Ottawa University
01-2005
Skills
- Requirements Gathering & ROI Analysis
- Prioritization and Execution
- End to End Feature Delivery
- Competitive Analysis and Negotiations; through customer feedback, work with supply partners for better pricing to ensure winning bids
- Troubleshooting and QA: design strategies with our QA team whenever there are issues with received shipments that do
- Remote Work & Data Analytics
- Product Roadmaps : as it pertains to movement of goods
- Improvement Metrics Measurement
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Effective Organization & Timeline Management
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Product Issue Resolution
- KPI Tracking
- Attention to Detail
- Goal Setting & Critical Thinking
- Cross Functional Leadership
References
Available upon request.
Affiliations
- Enjoy reading and travelling. Both hobbies feed my need to learn new things.
Timeline
Product Coordinator / Buyer /Senior Supply Chain Analyst
BRENNTAG Canada
07.2007 - Current
Administrative/Inventory Clerk
QUANTUM MANAGEMENT-GTAA
12.2006 - 04.2007
Product Coordinator / Buyer
TEMPS 4 YOU - BRENNTAG Canada
04.2006 - 10.2006
Technical Support Specialist
CONVERGYS Corporation
09.2004 - 09.2005
Coordinator/Trainer/Admin Assistant
JDS UNIPHASE
09.1999 - 01.2003
GTAA - Contracting
Business Administration -
Ottawa University
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