You will be responsible for:-

• Vendor management
  • Analyse, evaluate and improve vendor’s capabilities and performance
  • Capacity management
  • Expand or consolidate vendor base when appropriate
  • Price negotiation and create detailed cost saving plans and methods
  • Lead-time negotiation along with regular trouble shooting issues such as deliveries and quality issues
• Communications with head office
  • Build up strong communication platform and schedules with buyers and designers
  • Constant interaction and consultation on vendor capacity, order allocation etc
  • Observe and understand in detail the buyer’s needs and provide as much support as possible
  • Lead and supervise the sampling and costing operations and strive for continuous improvement
• Communications with internal teams in off-shore countries
  • Monitor capacity of each location carefully
  • Analyse, evaluate and propose available capacity for order allocation
  • Drive and execute certain projects and strategies together to achieve the common goal
• Communications with internal support teams
  • Build trust with the quality and CSR teams in order to ensure all products sourced are done so ethically at the required quality standards
  • Assist in certain quality or CSR driven initiatives
  • Assist in any quality issues, claims or disputes between buyers/QA with vendors
  • Monitor potential quality issues and execute relative solutions to ensure they can be avoided
• Key Performance Indicator
  • Your performance will be evaluated based on price margin, sampling, communications between key stakeholders and direct manager, along with quality ‘right first time’ initiative

Requirements:-

• Bachelor degree or above 
• Strong woven experience across different gender & age
• Excellent communication skills - fluency in English
• Ability to work in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Must have strong sourcing experience in China and SEA countries
  
  

Interested parties please send your CV to Angela Tsui (angela.tsui@connectedgroup.com).

For other available opportunities, please visit www.connectedgroup.com