Purchasing Business Services and Logistics Service Manager

Our strategic partner is a popular brand in the food and beverage manufacturing industry. The company has achieved significant success and has recently invested in production line technology and infrastructure. Due to continued growth and overall expansion, there are some strategic recruitment needs for the following positions to upgrade the organization and enhance people capability.

Location: Binh Duong, Vietnam

Summary

Our Partner seeks an accomplished Purchasing Business Services and Logistics Service Manager with experience in the Food & Beverage industry. This position is responsible for strategic sourcing of services, contract management and supplier relationship development to optimize costs, ensure timely delivery and support company growth.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop annual sourcing plan and identify strategic sourcing waves (Services) based on market changes, contract expiration, and duration since last strategic sourcing activity, in alignment with Company business priorities.
• Define strategic sourcing best practices, provide thought leadership to expand the sourcing benefits and opportunities.
• Oversee and drive collation and analysis of market intelligence data, including full supplier base information and capabilities, using relevant sources (e.g. industry reports, expert interviews, informal network, internal knowledge, etc)
• Guide development of spend cube (item, category, supplier, spend, etc.) for respective sourcing categories to understand complete internal usage profile.
• Drive development of sourcing strategy in conjunction with key stakeholders.
• Oversee development of RFP documentation and evaluation criteria.
• Drive development of negotiation strategy with key stakeholders; prepare and participate in negotiations with team members (as applicable).
• Manage resources includes control Department’s spend follow the approved budget.
• Tracking and document savings after every sourcing initiative. Monitor progress for sourcing exercise through rigorous work plan reviews.
• Ensure compliance with existing contracts, involving relevant sourcing managers where required.
• Manage contract operations, monitor progress, service delivery time and record and hand over completed acceptance documents to accounting to ensure on-time payment to Suppliers according to the contract.
• Organize acceptance monitoring, make return plans (if any) and prepare payment documents to ensure timely payment to Suppliers.
• Manage documents related to purchases and deliveries. Ensure compliance with the Company ‘s related procedures on acceptance and payment.
• Participate in building strategic partnerships to contribute for the goal of sustainable growth and enhance the Company ‘s reputation.
• Connect key suppliers with the strategic interests to successfully identify and drive untapped business opportunities.
• Promote Company’s reputation through building, connecting strategic partnership.
• Ensure transparency of raw material areas,
• Accompanying seminars, events, and discussions through which to promote the image, reputation, and position of Partners and the Company, together bringing valuable contributions to the development of the industry economy.
• Bilateral cooperation programs aim to contribute to the strategic development goals of both sides.
• Foster business development and innovation by jointly identifying and implementing opportunities that create long-term value for both organizations.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Procurement & SCM.
• Understanding about ERP as SAP, Oracle and Power BI, MS Excel and MS Office
• Proficiency in English
• Third or more language is preferred
• At least 5 years of experience in similar role
• Experience in managing a large purchasing team
• Excellent analytic skills and ability to think strategically about category.
• Significant project management, communication, negotiation and people management skills.
• Technical understanding of category and cost drivers and deep industry knowledge.
• Proven experience in negotiating with suppliers for high value contracts.

If you possess the required skills and experience and are ready to significantly contribute to the dynamic team, we warmly welcome your application at yen.le@peoplewise.vn or application@peoplewise.vn

About PeopleWise Vietnam:

PeopleWise Vietnam was founded with the mission of positively impacting our community by improving the quality of the labor force, addressing workforce dynamics, and enhancing its effectiveness. During our initial phase, we provided solutions and human resources consulting services to our partners worldwide, including workforce advisory, organizational diagnosis, career transition, training services, talent management, and staffing solutions that align with each organization’s values and vision, driving business success.

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