Our client is an international, one
stop shopping sourcing group based in Shanghai, China, offering a comprehensive
range of household goods and marketing services largely to the retail industry.
They are now looking to expand their sourcing team with a Team Leader. The Team
Leader reports directly to the Sourcing Director of the company.
THE POSITION
Team Leader – Christmas Division.
THE CANDIDATE
KEY
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage
the department’s 2 merchandisers to achieve the Division objectives
Manage
and coordinate suppliers to meet the Division’s goals in regards to cost and
delivery by applying specialist procurement and merchandising skills.
Manage
the process for quotations, negotiation of purchase contracts, follow-up,
scheduling and expediting of export shipments and domestic deliveries.
Communicate
with external customer to ensure procurement strategies are aligned with those
of the customer and the group to produce a commercial product within their
product class.
Source,
manage, and develop relationships with key suppliers to ensure continuous
improvement of products and services that meets requirements.
Management
and development of the Division’s product range.
Improve
systems and processes to deliver greater efficiency of service to the business,
customers, the company and third party providers.
Develop
and implement procurement policies where required in conjunction with internal
and group departments e.g. Product development, Quality, Finance and Sales.
Prepare
and execute presentations to customers as required.
WORKING
RELATIONSHIPS:
Internal working with
merchandise Team, company management and others.
External working with
customer, vendor, third party, manufactory, and others.
QUALIFICATIONS
College
graduated with 5-10 years working experience in multinational company as a Team
Leader/Product Manager, experience with EU market is very strongly preferred
Excellent
understanding of Christmas products, supply chain management, supplier
management/development, commercial contract laws and international business
acumen.
Excellent
communication skills between customer and vendors.
Good character, passionate with good
can-do attitude, flexible to work, and positive attitude.
Must
be able to work under pressure.
Strong
sense of responsibility and able to solve problems might have from Inquiry
stage to shipment made, ensure quality standard and on time shipment Achieved
per customer required.
Able
to work independently and as well as organized, manage and be part of the team.
Detailed
and result oriented, can working flexible, good character, passionate,
positive.
Fluent
Mandarin and English written and verbal.
Computer Literate, MS office is a
must.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
This is a full time position and remuneration is based on
qualifications.
DATE OF EMPLOYMENT
As soon as possible.
CLOSING DATE
SAM Business Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. receives a number of
applications. At the same time we work with search as well as with our own, very extensive, CV database from which
we
choose candidates with a matching profile for the job. When we have a
sufficient number of candidates, the job ad is removed from our webpage.
Therefore, if this position should be of interest to you, please send
your
application as soon as possible.
APPLICATION
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for the position by clicking on the below link “Contact
consultant regarding this job”, which makes it possible for you to send
your
application or write directly to the headhunter. Alternatively you can
use the
link ’Apply for this job’ at the top of this page, which enables you to
type in
your CV and enter it into our international database. If your CV is
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