Job Objective

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

• Work closely with BU sides on vendor selection and consider new vendor from different resource
• Provide inputs to BUs on price, quantity and lead time decisions.
• Responsible for full order follow up starting from PO until goods shipped
• 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
• 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
• 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 QA team
• Lead vendor relationship management, identifying preferred vendor by SKU and consistently tracking their performance based on pre-defined KPI and vendor scorecard
• Coordinate with category managers, vendors, Sourcing and Operations teams to ensure product development schedules are maintained
• Provide input to build up product specifications and provide cost engineering recommendation to category director/managers
• Work with Compliance teams on product compliance and ensure new products meet legal requirements
• Participate in fairs to find new and appropriate vendors and frequently have travelling to visit vendors
• The other task assigned by superior.

Qualifications:

• University graduated or above
• Experience in working for a trading company environment
• English fluent both oral & writing
• Self-confident to speak in front of a large audience
• Expert in Excel
• Good at PPT
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a Team/ self starter
• Strong negotiation skills
• Customer service minded
• Results / deadlines minded

We can offer:

• 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