Senior Purchasing Team Leader

Job Description

Manage the local purchasing team’s daily work and KPI, provide the best service to the internal and external customer, and actively support the production operations and other functional department.

1) Daily purchasing team management

• Purchasing task distribution to the buyers
• Support and solve the buyer’s problem in daily operation
• Lead weekly purchasing team’s meeting and monitor the process of cricital issue in the meeting
• Attend the weekly operation meeting on behalf of purchasing department
• Attend monthly Quality meeting on behalf of purchasing departement
• Approve POs in SAP timely and other approval authorized items in purchasing departement
• Approve the RFQ of new item or costdown & costup of repeated PNs
• Quarterly push the lead time analysis and improvement for PNs with long tead time

2. Supplier management

• Support the commodity team to develop the local suppliers in Vietnam to lower the cost for transfer project
• Follow the SCM headquarters’ supplier reduction goal to consolidate the smaller spend supplier into high spend supplier with same category
• Lead to assess the AVL supplier’s performance quarterly from business level

4. Supervision, Management & Leadership

• Ensure your team is staffed, motivated, inspired, engaged and empowered to deliver a high and sustainable performance level in an ever-changing environment at a cost level the organization can sustain and reflects market realities.
• Ensure you have the right people in the right jobs, by consistently using proper interview and selection techniques and methodologies

Job Requirement

Educational Background

University degree or above in science or engineering or supply chain management.

Working Experience 

• 5+ years or above of working experience in supplier management or procurement management in foreign company, 2+ years of managerial/ leadership experience in the field.

Special Abilities

• Be familiar with Optical Communication and Optics components and materials
• Preferred to the experience of high mix and low volume purchasing, CMP order review with high frequency.
• Good English in both read, write and oral
• Proficient in office software tools such as Excel, Word, ppt etc.
• SAP/Oracle experience is preferred.
• Enough experience with problem analysis and resolution.