Purchasing Manager (Food)

- Responsible for the end-to-end process from finding suppliers, ordering, logistics solutions and high quality delivery to warehouses.
- Oversee daily ordering and purchasing activity on food category across all cities.
- Manage stock level to ensure sufficient stock for daily, weekly and monthly sales.
- Monitor and secure KPIs on Out-of-stock, Fill rate, Input Cost and other upcoming metrics.
- Continue to source new suppliers to seek quality and price advantages.
- Negotiate payment terms with suppliers to gain benefit on the cash flow.
- Control suppliers' on time delivery to contribute to smooth Operations.
- Conduct market price research to ensure internal price competitiveness.
- Review portfolio performance and come up with suggestions on removing and adding new SKUs.
- Collaborate with Operations to handle issues related to suppliers such as quality, returning, and delivery time.
- Conduct weekly warehouse visits to check real stock status to control out-of-stock, quality & expiration.
- Collaborate with Accounting on contract, debt aspects.
- Formulate supplier strategy to gain bargaining power and stock availability.
- Conduct site visits to evaluate supplier's facilities and operation capability.
- Source new suppliers and get quotations for the Sales team to pitch to customers.
- Collaborate with the Sales team to prepare stock for running weekly, monthly campaigns.
- Recruit, train, guide and develop food team across cities.
- Travel between cities to supervise performance & address prolongedly unsolved problems to meet KPIs.
- Continue to come up with kaizens to enhance business competitive advantages over market competitors.
- Other tasks given by the line manager and BOD