Purchasing And Supply Chain Manager

I. KEY GOALS AND TASKS
1. International purchasing activities
• Manage and take responsibility for the department's activities, ensuring compliance with the
company's processes and regulations.
• Manage and be responsible for negotiating foreign trade contracts and communicating with
partners in terms of price, quantity, specification, technical standards, transportation
conditions, insurance, delivery term, payment method, etc. in an effective and strategic way.
• Build and develop business relationships with partners.
• Supervise the handling of all claims with insurance companies and suppliers regarding
products' quality, shipment, and other conditions.
• Prepare and attend meetings with suppliers and partners.
• Periodically review and analyze the company's purchasing volume, pricing level, and market
share to determine the suitable purchasing strategy.
• Provide team members with training related to products, claims, procedures, negotiation, etc.
• Be responsible for sourcing new products according to the market's needs/trends or
customers' requirements; manage and evaluate new suppliers.
• Be responsible for supplier qualification, regularly updating related information about
suppliers (capacity, products, shipment time, payment term, development orientation, etc.) to
choose the most suitable suppliers.
• Recruit new members to build up a strong and solid team.
2. International & local logistics activities
• Arrange and supervise the import and export procedure.
• Monitor delivery time, quantity, and transport expenses efficiently.
• Build and maintain great relationships with the General Department of Customs, shipping
lines, and strategic partners.
• Review, analyze, and propose different solutions for the overall's Logistics efficiency
enhancement.
• Negotiate and arrange bookings for cargo transportation.
• Synthesize data, analyze, and make reports related to ocean freight, inland water/road
transportation cost, etc.
• Continue to update the information on any legitimate changes influencing import and export
procedures, costing, trend, etc. to notify the related departments, and Board of Directors
(BOD) and discuss the optimal solution and action plan.
• Supervise and carry out the customs declaration, and control import costs.
Follow up and check HS Code to make sure the correct import tax is applied for each
commodity.
3. Customer services
• Handle customers' complaints related to import and export procedures, product quality, etc.
4. Other duties
• Organize and manage the team's workload, and evaluate the team's performance.
• Synthesize, analyze, and evaluate customers and market needs to come up with appropriate
strategies.
• Make periodical reports to evaluate the market and for management purposes.
• Perform other duties assigned by team leader and BOD.
• Recruit new members to build up a strong and solid team.