AM Raw Materials

1. Job Purpose          

• Person responsible ensures end to end procurement of raw material products including, but not limited to, Ethylene, EDC, Salt & Gases. From gauging, and forecasting internal demand requirements, negotiating prices & quantity thereby enabling a smooth plant operation.
• Creating and maintaining partnership with foreign/local suppliers and service providers (Port Authorities, Terminals, Clearing Agents, Shipping Agents, surveyor, and transporters) to ensure smooth supplies,
• Liaison with Eximp FZE, Group Treasury, Central Procurement Function and Shared Services for Raw material sourcing including requirement communication to suppliers/bank selection/LC opening process.
• Manage storages and inventories of Ethylene, EDC, and VCM Raw Materials, ensuring that they are stored in the appropriate conditions and at the required levels.
• Implementation of inventory management policies and procedures, ensuring optimal levels of inventory are maintained to support plant demand.
• Planning and managing hazardous product movement at both terminals to plant and Plant to terminals to manage inventories.
• Optimize demurrage on Ethylene and EDC shipments
• Manage budgets and provide regular updates via dashboards to senior leadership on supply chain performance.
• Work along with other organizational areas, such as manufacturing, Commercial, and finance, to make sure supply chain operations support the fulfilment of corporate objectives.
• Ensure accurate data management of ethylene, EDC sourcing along with necessary management reporting in SAP (GRN, cargo reconciliation, duty and invoice payment etc.)
• Gathering market intel and insight and disseminating effectively amongst raw materials
• Go through different market based publications to summarize and develop market intel

LCs processing

• Aligning treasury/ banks for bank selection, fulfilling vendor needs, timely release of funds
• Timely issuance of LC and shipping guarantee while coordinating with treasury.
• Fulfilling LC requirements including amendments
• All paper work with the bank e.g. filling of LC opening forms etc

Custom clearance

• Marine Insurance
• Duty payment
• Shipping demand
• Liasoning with clearing agent, insurance company teams on a regular basis to ensure timely ops
• Ensuring timely product clearance to unable product usage

Managing vendor invoices and Payments

• Resolving vendor payment issues

Ensuring correctness for 

1. Price and quantity in LC, system and other relevant document
2. Invoiced amounts to company from local and international vendors
3. Duty taxes for custom clearance 

2. Communication and Working Relationships

1. Main internal stakeholders:
   1. Manufacturing
   2. Commercial
   3. Finance
   4. Treasury
   5. Shared Services
   6. IT
   7. Material Warehouse
   8. Logistics

2. Main external stakeholders:
   1. Suppliers (EDC, Salt, Gases)
   2. Traders
   3. Storage terminals
   4. Banks
   5. Surveyor
   6. Other terminal customers
   7. Clearing Agent
   8. Shipping Agents

3. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities, Experience [KSAE] required

Skills / Abilities & Key Knowledge Areas

4. Experience & Education (& Technical Qualifications if applicable)