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Mustafa Najjar

Site Lead - Operation Manager
Amman

Summary

Strategic leader with expertise prioritizing projects, planning workflow and managing employees to achieve operational goals. Resourceful individual with 17 years of active experience managing efforts within deadline-driven environments. Diplomatic individual with strong leadership and decision-making skills.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Inspector and Clearance auditor

Jordan Customs
  • Ensure customs declaration for compliance with Jordan Laws and regulations. Including value of goods, Tariff codes, country of origin and enclosed documents. Reporting any violation of prevention and restriction Laws including IPR Laws, inspecting goods, ensure correct sequence and terms of procedure for all types of customs declarations.

Customs Valuation Officer

Jordan Customs
  • Conduct analysis and reports on disputes in goods evaluation, technical support for customs clearance centers, report on Customs violations related to goods value, Reporting and Conducting researches regarding Valuation affaires, audit Commercial correspondence, holding customs valuation training (internal and external).

Valuation Research Department Manager

Jordan Customs
  • Established clear performance expectations for staff members which led to increased accountability. Define training needs, provide technical support, monitoring disorders in valuation affairs and conduct necessary research and analyzes to reform, determine and follow up on corrective actions, modernize and streamline valuation applications, keep up with international scene on valuation, represent Jordan Customs on valuation affairs events, correspond and Follow up on valuation issues in WCO, maintain value data base.

Site leader – Operation manager

Amazon
08.2022 - Current

In addition to operation manager responsibilities below are site leader responsibilities.

  • Manage span of 150 employees across 5 functions.
  • Setting up long-term workforce strategy and strategic direction for Jordan site to support organizational goals across regions.
  • Owning deliverables across Jordan site compliance business functions
  • Implement continuous improvements frameworks
  • Oversee and ensure creation, revision and improvement of mechanisms that support development of skills of Jordan compliance team that align with Compliance Operations.
  • Ensure that inclusion and diversity principles and practices are applied
  • Build hiring strategies in partnership with Recruiting to attract talent
  • Manage a span of 150 employees
  • Adopt team structure to emerging priorities.
  • Execute based on compliance long-term strategy and vision
  • Owner of MENA region compliance operation cross sites.
  • Managing compliance site budget.
  • Created a positive work environment that promoted job satisfaction, and retention among team members.
  • Develop a strong company culture focused on employee engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities.

Operation manager – Global trade services

Amazon
01.2022 - 08.2022
  • Manage managers and individual contributors
  • Set business goals and individual goals
  • Create, Track and improve KPIs
  • Setting up Control structures
  • Implement improvement mechanisms, manage cross functional teams
  • Handle business and compliance escalations and own end-to-end mitigation solutions
  • Oversee implementation of corrective and preventive measures
  • Planning and implementing structure of teams
  • Ensure teams have the right level of first-line management support to meet their operational and development objectives
  • Track hiring plans to meet staffing goals
  • Coach direct and skip-level reports to demonstrate required competencies in the scope of their role.
  • Setup business reviews, ensure delivering of action items.

Trade compliance Senior Subject matter expert

Amazon
01.2020 - 02.2022
  • Applying SME knowledge of MENA regulation to create innovative solution to compliance
  • Inventing and simplifying processes and requirements to enable vendors, and supply chain to expand selection and availability globally
  • Handle large and complicated, cross-functional projects
  • Develop best-in-class processes and systems, and guide continual improvement
  • Communicate technical regulatory requirements to non-technical stakeholders
  • Provide technical support to Manual classification team.


Customs Expert in Jordan National Single Window (JNSW) Project

Jordan Customs
01.2017 - 12.2019
  • Automate, modernize and streamline clearance procedures, ensure compliance with the law and regulation in new procedures, represent JNSW on relevant affairs, communicate and manage relations with stakeholders and relevant entities, conduct research and analysis to reform disorders in current customs procedures (business process re-engineering) revolutionize current customs clearance procedures, customs valuation training


Education

Industrial robots and flexible manufacturing systems (English)

Cluj-Napoca Technical University (Romania)
01.2000 - 1 2005

Skills

Hire and develop personnel

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Affiliations

  • Jordanian Romanian forum for culture “JRFC”, 2006
  • Jordanian Engineers Association, 2006

Skills And Training

  • Computer Numerically Controlled Turning Machines Programming, 2005
  • Leadership, team building, and communication skills workshop, 2007
  • Jordanian Romanian Forum for Culture, 2007
  • Customs value and valuation, 2006
  • Problem solving and decision making skills, 2006
  • Customs Value (level II), 2007
  • Creative thinking and problem solving, 2014
  • Customs Empowerment, 2014
  • Trainer of trainers in customs valuation (WCO), 2015
  • Advance Customs value and valuation, 2016
  • Administrative leadership, 2016
  • Dispute settlement in WTO, 2016
  • Security standards and facilitation of the supply chain in international trade framework, 2016
  • Risk management in Single Window project, 2016
  • Time release study, 2017
  • Preparing executive plan and linking it to individual performance, 2017
  • Business Process re-engineering, 2018
  • Project Management Professional (WCO), 2018

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Romania
  • Date of Birth: 09/09/81
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Jordanian / Romanian
  • Marital Status: Married

Awards

  • Premium 3 for the scientific project of developing the information structure in the Electro technical lab. In Cluj-Napoca University.
  • Appreciation letter from Customs Director General for my unique efforts to meet The King Abdullah II award for excellence in government Performance and transparency standards., 2013
  • Appreciation letter from Customs Director General for my unique efforts preparing for The King Abdullah II award for excellence in Government Innovation Award, 2015
  • Appreciation letter from Customs Director General unique efforts in lunching National Recycling Initiative, 2016
  • Certificate of Merit from World Customs Organization for rendering exceptional service to international customs community, 2017

Timeline

Site leader – Operation manager

Amazon
08.2022 - Current

Operation manager – Global trade services

Amazon
01.2022 - 08.2022

Trade compliance Senior Subject matter expert

Amazon
01.2020 - 02.2022

Customs Expert in Jordan National Single Window (JNSW) Project

Jordan Customs
01.2017 - 12.2019

Industrial robots and flexible manufacturing systems (English)

Cluj-Napoca Technical University (Romania)
01.2000 - 1 2005

Inspector and Clearance auditor

Jordan Customs

Customs Valuation Officer

Jordan Customs

Valuation Research Department Manager

Jordan Customs
Mustafa NajjarSite Lead - Operation Manager