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 [protected info] 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.