Professional Summary
Experienced Executive with a proven track record in International Trade. Initiated my career during university by establishing a business focusing on selling workshop products to international markets. Proficient in organizing and executing comprehensive foreign trade operations, including liaising with customs brokers and ensuring seamless logistics. Expanded expertise through hands-on roles across manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and inspection firms. Excelled in Supply Chain operations, specializing in logistics and efficiently managing cross-continental shipments. Successfully developed a global supply chain network for a multinational corporation, facilitating worldwide customer delivery.
Experience
August 2023-Current
OGI Vessels Inspection | Dubai, UAE
Oil and Gas Cargo Superintendent
- Optimized global operations with hands-on project management
- Improved productivity after reviewing and modifying operations and workflows.
- Hired qualified employees using targeted strategies to reach candidates.
- Simplified project management processes using task management tools.
- Maximized employee performance with hands-on training and close mentoring.
- Managed daily workloads by organizing schedules and delegating tasks.
- Determined departmental financial needs and developed budgets for expenditures.
- Investigated customer complaints, identifying and changing processes to remove faults.
July 2021-August 2023
Portunus Port Spares and Services | İstanbul, Turkey
Foreign Trade Executive
- Directed operations and project management meetings.
- Managed and prioritized multiple projects, tracking status and solving issues to meet deadlines
- Created the supply chain network among international warehouses to satisfy global customers' orders in a timely fashion
- Prepared and managed the international trade operations budget to make operations smoother and more efficient
- Ensured the annual and quarterly sales targets are met
- Reached out to potential customers and prepared offers
- Organized all export and import operations including logistics and customs
- Kept track of payments to foreign suppliers and payments from foreign customers
- Prepared necessary documents for export (Commercial Invoice, Packing List etc.)
- Provided and maintained communications between international suppliers and customers
July 2020-July 2021
Osmanlı Makina | İstanbul, Turkey
Foreign Trade Specialist
- Reached out to potential customers and prepared offers
- Organized all export and import operations including logistics and customs
- Kept track of payments to international suppliers and payments from international customers
- Prepared necessary documents for export (Commercial Invoice, Packing List etc.)
- Provided and maintained communications between foreign suppliers and customers
- Optimized the supply of spare parts according to forecasted sales
- Created necessary supply chain network to ensure our production can operate at full capacity at all times
November 2018-February 2020
Trigon Inspection Maritime & Consultancy | Canakkale, Turkey
Surveyor, Bunker Supervisor
- Kept the inventory levels optimized to not exceed storage capacity with incoming shipments to ensure no demurrage occurs
- Managed the bunker barge fleets loading schedules to ensure deliveries were performed in timely fashion
- Supervised the loading operations at port
- Supervised the delivery operations at anchor
- Prepared and issued the delivery notes, customs declarations and survey reports
- Provided and maintained communications between vessels and bunker barges
Education
May 2018
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Business Administration
Yalova University, Yalova, Turkey
- Coursework: Basic Principles of Business Management, Basic Principles of Economics, Basic Principles of Marketing, Basic Principles of Accounting, Basic Principles of Macroeconomics, Basic Principles of Commercial Law, Macroeconomic Theory, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Statistics, Digital Marketing, Management Accounting, International Trade, International Marketing, Research Methods
- Member of AIESEC Yalova
- Professional development completed in International Trade
Milas Anatolian High School, Turkey
Skills
- Project Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Contract Management
- Reporting
- Financial Administration
- Stakeholder Communication
- Budget Management
- Managing Operations and Efficiency