4 Transportation jobs in Muscat

Role Purpose

The Senior Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for managing and optimizing procurement, contracts, vendor relationships, logistics, and inventory functions to deliver cost efficiency, operational excellence, and compliance with company policies and regulations. The role encompasses both strategic contributions, such as category management, sourcing strategies, and supplier performance optimization, and operational execution, including tendering, contract administration, and inventory control. This position serves as a key link between business units, suppliers, and management, ensuring that procurement and supply chain initiatives support organizational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies for assigned categories to achieve optimal total cost of ownership.
• Support the formulation and execution of annual procurement and contract management plans aligned with organizational goals.
• Conduct market intelligence to identify reliable suppliers and explore cost-saving opportunities.
• Advise on appropriate contract forms and terms to protect the company's interests and minimize risk.
• Lead and manage the end-to-end tendering process, including pre-tendering, bid evaluation, and post-award administration.
• Prepare tender documentation, scopes of work, evaluation criteria, bills of quantities, and pricing structures.
• Evaluate technical and commercial proposals, ensuring fair, transparent, and accurate assessments.
• Draft, review, and finalize contracts, amendments, and variations in compliance with company policies.
• Lead the supplier risk assessment process by evaluating financial stability, operational capability, regulatory compliance, and market conditions; maintain a supplier risk register, conduct audits and site visits, implement mitigation and contingency plans, and integrate risk insights into sourcing and contract award decisions to ensure supply continuity and minimize business disruption
• Manage vendor performance, ensuring contractual obligations and service levels are met.
• Monitor contract execution, resolve disputes, and implement effective resolution strategies.
• Oversee purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoice processing in ERP systems.
• Maintain accurate item master data, procurement records, and supplier performance metrics.
• Plan, monitor, and control inventory levels to optimize working capital and reduce holding costs.
• Coordinate warehousing, distribution, and logistics to ensure timely delivery to sites and business units.
• Ensure all procurement and logistics activities comply with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Coordinate with finance on budget planning, spend tracking, and payment term negotiations.
• Support process automation initiatives, including ERP enhancements and e-procurement tools.
• Provide guidance to junior procurement and supply chain staff, sharing best practices and mentoring where required.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to understand needs and deliver effective supply chain solutions.
• Liaise with external stakeholders, including auditors, regulatory bodies, and strategic partners.
• Facilitate tender committee meetings, prepare reports, and present procurement recommendations to management.
• Lead post-project reviews to identify lessons learned and implement continuous improvement measures.
• Contribute to in-country value (ICV) initiatives by increasing local sourcing and supplier development.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Advanced negotiation, contract drafting, and vendor management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail.
• Comprehensive knowledge of procurement, supply chain management, and logistics best practices.
• Proficiency in ERP systems and e-procurement platforms.
• Financial acumen to assess the total cost of ownership and manage budgets.
• Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work independently on complex projects while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Adaptability to manage both strategic planning and hands-on operational tasks.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, or related discipline.
• Professional certifications such as CIPS, CPSM, CPPM, or equivalent are preferred.
• Minimum of 4-6 years of progressive experience in procurement, contracts, and supply chain roles.
• Demonstrated success in cost optimization, strategic sourcing, and supplier performance improvement.
• Experience in managing both strategic procurement initiatives and operational supply chain execution.

Job Purpose: To lead and manage the end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations for all automotive brands under Al Hashar Automotive, including Nissan, Infiniti, Peugeot, Aston Martin, and others. The role ensures smooth vehicle import, timely customs clearance, efficient yard management, optimal parts warehousing, and seamless inter-branch distribution across Oman.

Key Responsibilities:
- Import & Customs Clearance: Ensure timely and cost-efficient customs clearance and compliance with all legal import requirements. Maintain strong relationships with clearance agents and port authorities.
- Vehicle Inflow & Yard Management: Track inbound shipments, manage vehicle offloading, inspection, pre-delivery process, and systematic yard inventory control.
- Supply Chain Operations: Oversee movement of vehicles and parts from central warehouses to branches. Ensure accurate demand forecasting, replenishment, and logistics optimization.
- Inventory Planning & Control: Monitor inventory levels of vehicles and parts to ensure optimal stock across locations without overstocking or shortages.
- DMS Usage and Compliant: Ensure Dealer Management System interface is used accurately and regularly updated on a daily basis by all Staff in the Logistics department
- Team & Vendor Management: Lead the logistics and warehouse teams, manage third-party logistics (3PL) providers and transport partners, and ensure performance KPIs are met.
- Systems & Process Optimization: Improve operational efficiency through process standardization, technology integration, and cost control initiatives.

Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, or related discipline.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in automotive logistics or large-scale import operations.
- Valid Oman/GCC Driving License.

Key Competencies:
- Proven experience in managing large vehicle imports and national supply chain networks.
- Knowledge of Oman's customs and port clearance procedures.
- Capability to lead multi-site warehousing and transportation operations.
- Strong analytical, planning, and reporting skills.
- Ability to manage cross-brand and multi-location requirements simultaneously.

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The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.

In this role you will be the Technology Specialist (pre-sales consultant) for your assigned workload and a member of the sales team that consists of Solution Specialist, Customer Success Unit, partners, and engineering. In this role you will advance pipeline by assisting the Solution Specialist in qualifying the deal, developing the strategy and inspiring the CxO/Business Decision Maker/Technical Decision Maker. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell and implementation considerations, engineering to assist with emerging technologies and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer's solution design endorsement. Once the solution design is secured, you will support the Solution Specialist in finalizing the customer proposal and assisting with licensing.

You will develop relationships with the decision makers with our customers and position yourself as a trusted advisor in your domain. As a recognized product expert, you are responsible for sharing your technical, industry knowledge and best practices with your peers.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Advance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer's solution design endorsement.
• Engage with the account team to land solution envisioning sessions and business value assessments.
• Proactively deliver compelling customer centric solution demonstrations based on technical workload expertise while building Business Decision Maker/CxO/Technical Decision Maker connections.
• Address solution architecture considerations and competitive objection handling.
• Assist in formalizing the customer proposal.
• Collaborate with Partners and Customer Success to align on agreed upon deployment plan and Key Performance Indicators.
• Lead discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.
  
  

• 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience.
  

• 7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• 7+ years of related experience:
• Solution pre-sales for business applications and/or SaaS-based company or similar technology.
• Solution pre-sales of complex business application deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry and solution team members.
• Solutions pre-sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities.
• Successful track record of competitive displacement.
• Ability to drive and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries through organizational, presentation, envisioning, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• Proven track record in prioritization and orchestration of resources for complex customer digital transformation engagements.
• Deep understanding of: Business application solutions
• Commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft's cloud platform as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications and related ecosystems.
• Customer facing business processes in one or more industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Retail & Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Public Sector and Media & Communications.
• Business value selling methodologies and practices that successfully convey the value and business outcomes
• How to uncover customer's stated and unstated needs and how technology can be leveraged to solve business problems.
• Desired Skills:
• High level of self-awareness, reflection, and empathy.
• Ability to skillfully communicate, demonstrate, and prove the value of Dynamics 365 Business Applications.
• Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value.
• Excel at coordinating team resources to build and deliver a compelling solution demonstration
• Proven collaborator capable of influencing internal and external teams.
• Excellent presentation and communications skills across various customer stakeholders, e.g., CIO, CFO, CMO, VP of Sales, etc.
• Adept at challenging perspectives and differentiating from the competition by reframing value and exemplifying customer obsession.