Senior Expediting Officer

Job description / Role

- Produce professional expediting and logistics services and develop solutions for critical decisions that have high value impact on the organization.
- Achieve complex and critical logistics and expediting activities requiring high expertise, such as shutdowns, plant emergencies, services to ensure quality, cost and time targets.
- Develop effective logistics plans and apply relevant tools and techniques to identify suitable methods with related vendors and communicate with them for assigned commodities.
- Review, analyze and evaluate all shipping and commercial documentations for all deliveries and ensure correct approvals, handling and packaging.
- Identify shipping regulation changes, monitor logistic vendors, and provide reports on performance, costs and product development.
- Identify and implement solutions for complex and critical logistics problems, variations, and dispute issues, with an appreciation of the overall value-effectiveness of solutions.
- Recommend improvements for expediting procedures and practices to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
- Coordinate logistics and expediting activities between suppliers, logistic vendors, and end users to satisfy Company business requirements and targeted savings.
- Establish ethical relationships with government entities, suppliers and logistic vendors to ensure the most cost effective solutions.
- Recommend commercial commitments between Company and logistics suppliers to deliver required materials and recommend the best mode of transport.

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business Administration or equivalent
- 6 years’ experience in logistics/ procurement within oil and gas industry.

Technical and Business Skills:
- High standard of written and spoken English.
- Computer literacy (MS Office) including the use of software applications, including SAP.
- Strong planning and target delivery skills.
- Ability to communicate in a highly effective manner with internal/external clients.

About the Company

A leading oil and gas company in Qatar.