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Position Scope:

• Responsible for managing our new and existing vendors, building up strong relationships
• The role will take responsibility for coordinating with category managers and logistics teams in Europe and US to negotiate with vendors for the best available price/MOQ/lead time/quality
• Vendor performance management and vendor panel management, through the use of KPIs and scorecards (sharing this data with our vendors to make progress)
• For new products, you are responsible for translating new products from brief to PO ready, including vendor selection, getting quotations, requesting/validating samples/counter samples, etc. For existing product, you will ensure and validate PO agreements with existing vendors. In times of disagreements, you will renegotiate terms and validate new terms with BUs
• You will manage the process of sourcing from new vendors for existing products and expand vendor relationship for new products. You are also responsible for consistently tracking/monitoring vendor performance, updating their status and defining preferred vendors. This position will give exposure to both the end market and supply market to drive for best profitability
• Pre-auditing new vendors, ensuring our expectations are met in terms of vendor compliance (technical, social audit, environmental audit…), with the support of our internal compliance team
• Making sure our products have all the test reports needed to be exported to US or to Europe, once again with the support of our compliance teams

Responsibilities:

• Act as liaison between the BUs and the vendors
• Develop and administer new vendors; manage and maintain relationships with vendors
• Negotiate price/MOQ/lead time with vendors and confirm PO with vendors
• Responsible for the proper follow up of assigned inquiries and orders to meet commitments to customers
• Provide cost engineering and input to Category Managers to build up product specifications
• Create the Product Approval Form (PAF)
• Coordinate with Category Managers, Vendors, Sourcing and Operations teams to ensure product development schedules are maintained
• Work with QA teams on product compliance and ensure products meet legal requirements
• Track vendor performance based on pre-defined KPI and vendor scorecard
• Report to Manager all information and market trends, competitors' activities and news that may affect the business of the Company through product highlight / new product information sheet
• Identify and define preferred vendor in the database and update their status based on their most recent performance
• Identify problems in early stage of the production process and provide solutions. Alert team proactively & immediately if sensing any problem in vendor internal mgmt/quality/capacity during visits to vendors
• Provide inputs to BUs on quantity and supply timeline decisions
• Liaise with BU sourcing controllers to identify potential to improve margins (e.g. price negotiation, changing existing vendors, changing specifications, etc.)
• Attend fairs for new product generation and price benchmarking
• Present ongoing product ideas; manufacturing methods and decoration innovation
• Perform any other duties assigned by Manager

Qualifications (Minimum):

• University graduate or above
• Experience in working in a trading company environment
• Microsoft Office, Photoshop/Illustrator is a bonus
  

• Strong analysis & negotiation skills
• Acute sense for supply market, strong for researching
• Customer service minded
• Instinctively curious, seeks to understand, asks good questions
• Creative

• Skills training related with job;
• International working environment;
• Career development in different domain and places;
• Opportunities to work in different cities and countries;
• 15 annual leave days;
• Commercial supplementary medical insurance;
• Yearly body check;
• Convenient location within easy reach of public transport;
• Working cell phone with monthly program.
• Flexible working hours.
  

上班地址：上海市徐汇区斜土路2669号英雄大厦5楼