Key Accountabilities:
- Help regional procurement leader to define and implement local sourcing strategy in Vietnam
- Lead team to deliver procurement KPI (including saving target, OTIF, DPO, Lead- time, DPPM…) for all plants
- Assist regional procurement leader in the formation of Commodity/Supplier specific strategies that fit the overall LI global sourcing/outsourcing strategies/supplier pyramid
- Cooperate with related departments to regular cost benchmarking to drive cost reduction by utilizing negotiation techniques, resourcing, VE/VA and other cost analysis tools with regional leader buyer
- Conduct team building to improve people engagement, process enhancement and compliance application by company’s behaviors
- Co- operate with country cross- function (SCM, Technical and Quality function…) team for troubleshooting and address it to improve supplier’s performance
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Work with regional Lead Buyers and GSA team to collect and analyze commodities, and recommend commodities/items to be sourced and/or outsourced in Vietnam or other best- cost countries
- Conduct regular benchmarking RFQ activities to drive for the optimal cost competitiveness within category spend, drive year- on- year supplier productivity through benchmarking resourcing, annual negotiation, should cost model, VAVE (Value Analysis Value Engineering) program
- Lead team to handle job related to purchasing goods and services (daily job of receiving PR, issuing POs, controlling delivery and contract generation…)
- Provide second- to- none focus to Cost, Quality and Service in all sourcing activities, by identifying potential suppliers, conducting full audit and evaluation, with key measurements: QDCS aspects
- Follow up company’s compliance system to develop new suppliers with cross function team and manage suppliers, cost, quality, and delivery performance.
- Training team about the procurement process, evaluating/auditing supplier policy, and bidding policy… to ensure team understand and follow correctly.
- Engage, motivate team members to facilitate staff to develop themselves.
- Lead negotiation with local supplier for supply agreement, bonus agreement, QAA (Quality Assurance Agreement), frame contract, price adjustment mechanism
- Conduct of market analysis and continuously scouts for new technology in the field to align with company product development roadmap and ensure the right supplier base are ready to meet company business goal
- Monitor team to ensure it complies with the company policies, regulations and procedures, especially strictly follow company’s compliance policy
