Recruitment

• Communicates with executives and gains approval for purchasing contracts with new vendors or on new supplies.
• Order placement with supplier based on planning lead times, and managing all relevant activities in ERP system
• Order confirmation to ensure high level of supplier response and up to date delivery dates
• Following the supply process (order-2-supply); incoming goods transaction, tracking outstanding deliveries.
• Proactively resolving supply constraint to protect service.
• Collaboration with the various departments in operations, Product management and finance to resolve process issue which are preventing the flow of product supply
• Developing robust improvement plans with supplier to improve flow of product supply,accuracy of lead time and order confirmation & status update data exchange.
• Optimise stock holding and minimise risk of excess and obsolescence
• Support customer service & sales team on key customer accounts and critical customer supply issue.
• Leading process improvements to ensure all teams have one common purchasing process and increase transactional efficiency.
• Management of purchasing master data within ERP.

Minimum Requirements / Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain / Logistics, Business Management or a related field is required;
• 2 years of finished goods purchasing experience involving project based purchasing
• Must have previous strong exposure to inventory control/management/reduction in a high SKU environment.
• In depth understand of ERP purchasing functionality.
• Experienced in process improvement and managing change
• Experience in relationship management with suppliers
• Must be English speaking and able to work in teams with remotely located team members

Competencies:

• Results oriented, metrics driven with a root cause, permanent fix approach,continuous improvement approach with high sense of urgency and self-motivation
• Excellent interpersonal, customer orientation and problem solving, can-do attitude
• Multi-tasking experience and flexibility to address immediate priorities and still manage deadlines with longer-term projects and strategic initiatives.
• Strong analytic capability able to identify patterns and trends within data which will require Excel and ERP interrogation.