Title:  Officer, Shipping

Location: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

Job Type: Full-time

Hashtag: #LI-NA1

About Us:

For over 45 years, Hikma Pharmaceuticals has been putting better health within reach, every day, by creating high-quality medicines and making them accessible to those who need them. We are helping to shape a healthier world that enriches all our communities, and our global team of 9,500+ empowered employees are central to this mission.

As a trusted and reliable partner of over 800 high-quality generics, specialty and branded pharmaceutical products, we are driven to improve access to medicine. Through our 29 manufacturing plants, 9 R&D centers across the MENA, North America and Europe, our footprint allows us to play a critical role in serving patients. 

Description:

We are looking for a talented Shipping Officer to join us. At Hikma you’ll be supported by a culture of progress and belonging where people are encouraged to develop, wellbeing is prioritised and our inclusive approach values contributions from all. We’re seeking candidates who embody our values: Innovative, driven to keep learning; Caring, genuinely compassionate in their work; and Collaborative, eager to solve problems together.

If you want to be part of a team that cares about impact, this is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Follows all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Follows the day-to-day operations related to own job to ensure continuity of work.

• Leads all relevant Logistics & Supply Chain instructions, in order to ensure work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Certifies that the condition of the products received are being checked, to ensure the well-being of the products and their integrity.
• Conducts strategy meetings with the supply chain team members to review daily workloads and assignments.
• Leads the supply chain team members within the site to ensure all supply chain requirements are completed on a daily basis.
• Picks, packs, stages and loads order movements and prepares all pertinent documentation to accurately receive and put away all incoming products and supplies.
• Reviews and verifies the data entered on SAP and paper systems by lower-level jobs to ensure that information is accurate and reliable. 
• Coaches and trains lower-level jobs on simple tasks to ensure compliance with set guidelines and SOPs.
• Contributes to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of processes and practices taking into account ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Assists in the preparation of timely and accurate reports of Supply Chain to meet company and department requirements, policies and standards.
• Complies with all relevant safety, quality and environmental management policies, procedures and controls to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.  

• Performs other related duties or assignments as directed. 

• Follows all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

Qualifications:

We are looking for candidates whose experience and skills align closely with the qualifications outlined below:

• BSc. in Business Administration or equivalent with preferably a masters.

• 0-3 years of relevant Supply Chain experience.

Learn more about Hikma in KSA hikma-ksa-factsheet-aug-2025-en.pdf