Key Responsibilities

• Manage assigned categories to match business requirements (cost efficiency, cost of goods sold, number of days of inventory, cancellations, order fulfillment rate.).
• Develop assortment and pricing strategies to serve customers by region.
• Ensure competitive prices, timely response, and adequate quality supply as proposed by the Business Growth department and the Leadership.
• Develop relationships with key suppliers and attract new suppliers with good purchase prices and debt terms.
• Negotiate with suppliers on contract terms: prices, payment terms, delivery times, product quality, etc. and resolve any issues that arise with suppliers.
• Monitor, strictly control and take responsibility for all purchasing costs and quality, inventory quantity of each type of product within the scope of responsibility.
• Continuously seek business opportunities to increase revenue and profit.
• Coordinate directly with other departments such as: Sales, Accounting & Finance, Warehouse, Transportation to ensure purchasing is consistent with departmental realities and convenient in implementation.

Staff Management

• Develop and control the implementation of processes related to purchasing and supplying goods.
• Supervise, train and support employees.
• Evaluate individual capacity and work performance.