PURCHASING MANAGER

Our client is a is a foreign venture company. We are manufacturing wooden furniture for exporting to Canada and the USA market. We are looking for PURCHASING MANAGER with details:

Supplier selection, evaluation, and creation:

• Own and execute strategic sourcing and vendor in local and overseas who can supply the wooden furniture materials to meet the requirement of new product development or cost improvement strategy.
• Supplier assessment and qualification following company guidelines and procedures.
• Contract development, negotiation, and management.
• Collecting and qualifying the vendor documents, certificates before vendor code set up.

Market price research and analysis

• Searching and analyzing markets both local and overseas for reliable suppliers and best prices

• Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
• Recommend solutions to the goods whose prices are regularly changed in the market.
• Analysis the annually volume to find the opportunity for cost down based on the level quantity of purchase.

Supplier performance management and improvement

• Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost.
• Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance.
• Monitoring the OTD and improving to reach KPI.
• Record, solve and improve the non-conformance issues from vendors
• Build and maintain partnerships with vendors, and internal and external organizations.

Data management

• Maintain and have a plan to periodically check the expiry date of contract and Halal certificate of vendor.
• Fulfill, maintain and cleansing items master data, vendor master data...following company guidelines.
• Collecting the product ingredient, specification and introduce to the regional team once the new items created
• Research and record products that can only be purchased seasonally to plan to order accordingly.

Buying activities

- Release PO from PR and send to vendor thru software/ ERP system.

•     Following the PO/ Shipment status from end to end to make sure the goods arrive on time.
•     Work closely with RM planning to inform if any change/ delay the delivery schedule 
•      Solving issues once receive any non-conforming goods by return or replace and recording the issues to assessment vendor performance in next period.  
•      Daily inform to the warehouse list of items will be received in the next day.
•     Regularly remind/ instruct vendors to provide the items with agreed specification in the agreement.
•     Searching and make plan to buy the sample to support for R&D team research.

Review demand and forecast

• Monthly review the demand and forecast with RM planner to ensure the consistent and adequate supply of materials necessary for production.

• Graduated from University
• Good in English
• Good computer skills in Excell;
• Interpersonal & Negotiating skills;
• Communication skills;
• Client orientation;
• High sense of responsibility;
• Good analytical and organizational skills;
• Hard and smart working;
• 5 years working for manufacturing company;