Reporting to the Category Director/Manager, you are the main interface with vendors on behalf of the BUs and you are responsible for sourcing new vendors and managing the vendors to track and monitor their performance and also keep good relationships with them to bring more benefit on company business.
Job Responsibilities
1. Responsible for sourcing of new countries, regions and or factories, work closely with vendors, to offer best quotation to BU, and find new vendor if needed. 2. Work closely with BU sides on vendor selection and consider new vendor from different resource 3. Provide inputs to BUs on price, quantity and lead time decisions. 4. Responsible for full order follow up starting from PO until goods shipped 5. Conduct ongoing trend research and identify hot products from vendors for the category, give inputs to PD merchandisers on preferred vendors for new product development 6. Negotiate price/quantity/ETD by exception when vendors disagree with the initial POs issued from BUs. Validate with sourcing controller and category manager on price discrepancy and validate with BU logistics teams on quantity and ETD discrepancy 7. Liaise with BU sourcing controllers to identify potential to improve margins (e.g. price negotiation, changing existing vendors, changing specifications, etc.), When changing vendors for existing products, manage the process to decide on new vendors as well as validating vendor compliance with Compliance team 8. Support sourcing action defined during VPR and/or sourcing priority list 9. Lead vendor relationship management, identifying preferred vendor by SKU and consistently tracking their performance based on pre-defined KPI and vendor scorecard 10. Coordinate with category managers, vendors, Sourcing and Operations teams to ensure product development schedules are maintained 11. Provide input to build up product specifications and provide cost engineering recommendation to category director/managers 12. Work with Compliance teams on product compliance and ensure new products meet legal requirements 13. Participate in fairs to find new and appropriate vendors and frequently have travelling to visit vendors 14. Provide inputs to BUs on price, quantity and lead time decisions. 15. Evaluate project feasibility based on Polyconcept expertise and vendor panel capabilities 16. Ensure speed of reply as per SLA (inquiry to be replied within 24H) 17. Responsible for full order follow up starting from inquiry until goods shipped 18. Conduct ongoing trend research and identify hot products from vendors for the category, give inputs to BU’s Worldsource team to develop new offers and program 19. Negotiate price/quantity/ETD by exception when vendors disagree with the initial POs issued from BUs. Validate with Bus 20. Lead vendor relationship management and consistently tracking their performance based on related data, identifying preferred vendor per project based on Price /Speed / quality and customization capability 21. Work with Compliance teams on product compliance and ensure new products meet legal requirements 22. Follow project closely with vendor and related department (Quality /QC /Sales/Shipping ) to ensure On time delivery 23. Settle all claim with BUs regarding orders 24. The other task assigned by superior
*It cannot include all job responsibilities above, the job responsibilities will be made adjustment and supplement when need
Job Requirements: Language: Very fluent English in oral and written Educational Qualifications: College graduated or above Professional Qualifications: Ability of working independently, self-motivated, outgoing, mature, as well as a good team player Experience: 2~5 relevant working experience, drinkware experience is a plus Other Skills: Good at Excel & PPT