For over 50 years, our Company has made lives clean and inspired by offering smarter home storage and organizational solutions for every room of the house. Our Company is one of the top distributors of consumer products to major USA retailers. We have opened a great opportunity for a strong Merchandiser with strong follow up skills on orders to act as Company main contact in China for all aspects of purchase order administration, purchasing including but not limited to the following:
Key Duties and Responsibilities: --Issue purchase orders --Oversee entire purchase order process from purchase order to shipment --Daily follow up very closely and ensure timely delivery of purchase orders with cross-departmental close communication and follow up regarding all pre-production and production issues such as approved samples, packaging artwork, testing, costing --Troubleshoot and negotiate price increases imposed on active purchase orders --Daily follow up on samples and sample/product development --Prepare and handle full set of shipping documents and banking documents --Negotiate costing for existing items to maintain pricing of products, and keep any price increases as low as possible as to not jeopardize the order with the retail customer --Maintain status updates and monitor production, document correspondence, data, relay information required for timely production with factories --Study purchase order to see which orders are about to be shipped, issue ASNs (Advanced Shipping Notices) in Assimilate, coordinate with QC/QA and factory to ensure all compliance prior to shipping has been duly completed, and based on successful completion of order, arrange bookings with freight forwarders --Daily planning of LCL consolidation of cargos from different factories in one container in a timely manner to ensure original Cargo Request Dates are met, facilitating efficient freight loading and timely shipments. --Ensure timely shipments and negotiate lead times to meet the demands of the MRP team. Manage bookings to align with cargo ready dates efficiently.
Please do not submit your resume if you do not have the following mandatory requirements: --Excellent verbal and written English skills. Please do not submit your resume if your English is not perfect both conversational and written. --MS Excel Mastery: Utilize advanced MS Excel skills including VLOOKUP’s, XLOOKUP’s and Pivot Tables to manage data, track shipments, analyze factory performance, and ensure that all operations are on schedule. Please do not apply if you don’t have the above expert MS Excel skills.
This is a work-from-home position for a USA HQ Company. Interested parties, please send resume and salary expectations to our HR mailbox. *All information provided by applicants will be treated in strictest confidence and used for recruitment purposes only.