Alind Izat

Lead and supervise all merchandising supervisors across regions. Build strong, supportive relationships with all company distributors. Monitor product availability and presence in key retail locations.

Merchandising General Supervisor - Hesniany Company - Duhok (Iraq)

(2025-04)

• Lead and supervise all merchandising supervisors across regions.
• Build strong, supportive relationships with all company distributors.
• Monitor product availability and presence in key retail locations.
• Ensure pricing in all shops follows company-approved price lists.
• Follow up on product visibility, freezer condition, and shelf standards.
• Implement and monitor merchandising plan weekly.
• Support teams in executing promotions, especially for Banvit, Gözde, and Perdix.
• Visit the field regularly to evaluate market conditions and team performance.
• Coordinate with distributors to resolve stock gaps and delivery delays.
• Collect reports and feedback from the team and submit weekly/monthly reports.
• Present key challenges and field observations to management.
• Train and guide merchandising staff to follow best practices.
• Attend regular meetings with management to align on goals and updates.
• Review and improve team performance based on weekly action plans.
• Ensure expired or damaged goods are immediately removed from markets.
• Respond to field issues quickly and share solutions with the team.
• Keep communication open with management, supervisors, and distributors.
• Maintain a strong field presence and lead by example.

Procurement Officer - Chemonics international (ICRI-Ta'afi), USAID/OTI Iraq - Erbil (Iraq)

(2025-01 - 2025-04)

• Checks project inventory and track all project items.
• Demonstrates an understanding of basic grants management, activity development, MEL, and compliance functions, to fill gaps in those areas as needed.
• Leads procurement updates during weekly GMU meetings and contributes clear information to activity notes about the procurement process.
• Is able to provide capacity building and support to grantees on procurement issues as needed.
• Provides accurate monthly TAP projections, proactively works with vendors and the PO to ensure disbursements occur on time and proposes solutions to the PO and PM for any delays or challenges that occur in the process.
• Creates and manages procurement files.
• Prepares loan agreements for staff working in Iraq.
• Assist staff in addressing any procurement questions or issues in collaboration with the operations and procurement staff.
• Assists the procurement team during the procurement process.
• Prepares Payment Requests, Purchase Orders, PAR forms, RFQs and BPAs when needed.
• Stays well informed regarding all Chemonics policies and procedures related to procurement.
• Organizes and participates in internal evaluation committees.
• May serve as acting procurement Manager for extended periods, covering all procurement functions for the project.
• Proactively participates in concept development discussions and advises grant team on procurement options and evaluation criteria with realistic timelines that facilitate program goals.
• Provides recommendations pre or during yellow lights to mitigate any potential procurement concerns.
• Other Duties as assigned.

Senior Procurement Associate - Chemonics international (ICRI-Ta'afi), USAID/OTI Iraq - Erbil (Iraq)

(2024-01 - 2025-01)

• Checks project inventory and track all project items.
• Assists the procurement team during the procurement process.
• Prepares Payment Requests, Purchase Orders, PAR forms, RFQs and BPAs when needed.
• Prepares loan agreements for staff working in Iraq.
• Creates and manages procurement files.
• Assist staff in addressing any procurement questions or issues in collaboration with the operations and procurement staff.
• Stays well informed regarding all Chemonics policies and procedures related to procurement.
• Organizes and participates in internal evaluation committees.
• May serve as acting procurement Manager for extended periods, covering all procurement functions for the GMU.
• Provides accurate monthly TAP projections, proactively works with vendors and the PO to ensure disbursements occur on time and proposes solutions to the PO and PM for any delays or challenges that occur in the process.
• Leads procurement updates during weekly GMU meetings and contributes clear information to activity notes about the procurement process.
• Is able to provide capacity building and support to grantees on procurement issues as needed.
• Proactively participates in concept development discussions and advises PDOs on procurement options and evaluation criteria with realistic timelines that facilitate program goals.
• Provides recommendations pre or during yellow lights to mitigate any potential procurement concerns.
• Demonstrates an understanding of basic grants management, activity development, MEL, and compliance functions, to fill gaps in those areas as needed.
• Other Duties as assigned.

Procurement Associate - Chemonics international (ICRI-Ta'afi), USAID/OTI Iraq - Erbil (Iraq)

(2021-01 - 2024-01)

• Checks project inventory and track all project items.
• Assists the procurement team during the procurement process.
• Prepares Payment Requests, Purchase Orders, PAR forms, RFQs and BPAs when needed.
• Prepares loan agreements for staff working in Iraq.
• Creates and manages procurement files.
• Assist staff in addressing any procurement questions or issues in collaboration with the operations and procurement staff.
• Stays well informed regarding all Chemonics policies and procedures related to procurement.
• Provides accurate monthly TAP projections, proactively works with vendors and the PO to ensure disbursements occur on time and proposes solutions to the PO and PM for any delays or challenges that occur in the process.
• May serve as acting procurement Manager for extended periods, covering all procurement functions for the GMU.
• Other Duties as assigned.

Warehouse supervisor - World Vision international (WVI) - Duhok (Iraq)

(2020-09 - 2020-12)

• Warehouse Commodity Management: ensure that all commodities entrusted to World Vision arriving at the warehouse and leaving the warehouse are properly accounted for.
• Logistics: ensure that proper logistic arrangements are always in place so that projects will run smoothly without avoidable commodity stock shortages in the warehouse.
• Maintain Warehouse standards ensure that warehouse best practices, standards are maintained at all times as guided by WV Commodity manual standards this includes but not limited to maintaining FIFO instead of LIFO unless there is reasonable grounds, proper stacking, adequate warehouse equipment etc.
• Record Keeping: Responsible for ensuring that all the warehouse records including Ledger books, stack cards and stock control sheets are accurately filled and updated. Quantities recorded on these documents MUST correspond to the daily physical stock in the warehouse.
• Coordination: establish and maintain proper logistics coordination with donors' logistics departments.
• Reporting: provide required periodic warehouse reports (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual report).
• Commodity Loss Management develops zero tolerance loss of commodities in the warehouse.
• Warehouse Staff Management establishes professional systems of managing warehouse staff and casual staff in the warehouse

Support officer - Caritas Czech Republic (CCR) - Erbil (Iraq)

(2019-10 - 2020-09)

• Project Planning: Maintaining a detailed overview of all planned related to support functions. Coordinate plans across large and decentralized teams.
• Risk Management: Actively supporting risk management, including identification and logging of risks according to company standard operating procedures. Maintain a relevant contextual understanding of projects. Support Due Diligence and vetting procedures.
• Financial Management: Support the financial administration of projects, including managing invoicing processes, expenses reconciliation and budget management and reporting.
• Review and verify that all payment requests of costs charged to a grant are budgeted, allocated and properly coded.
• Prepare monthly expenses table with high accuracy and cash forecast.
• Review partners periodic financial reports to ensure consistency with budget and contractual agreement. Report any deviations and work with the partner to resolve identified discrepancies.
• Ensure compliance to donor standards and CCR's internal controls to safeguard donors and CCR's internal resources.
• Ensure that the financial, administrative and documentation processes meet audit and donor requirements, and maintain key related documentation for grants/contracts, MOUs, Teaming Agreements, and other relevant documents for audit preparation.
• Ensuring that all procurement processes are in line with CCR's Procurement manuals.
• Ensure that all procurement specifics, CCR's/donors' rules, and policies are followed.
• Secure that all Tenders are submitted to relevant stakeholders within the deadlines.
• Manage the procurement tracker and share it with the relevant stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Prepare inventory list and asset register and update it on regular basis.
• Oversight of all purchase and service contracts to ensure CCR's interests are protected.
• Optimize all logistics operations to increase cost-effectiveness including setting up longer-term supply contracts and Frame Agreements
• Issue and file CCR letters to Government, agencies or non-governmental agencies as required.
• Maintain JCC and JCMC letter for every month.
• To support staff with ID cards
• To support ex-pat and local staff with Asayish procedures and obligations
• To apply for Visa and residency for international staff for both Kurdistan and Iraq.
• Follow up with administrative tasks at the governmental offices bot