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Retail Purchasing Manager – HBPR (Paper goods)

Lotus's
Lotus's (Bueng Kum)
Bueng Kum
Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭
Lotus's
At Lotus's, we get up every morning and questioned ourselves daily on how we can serve our customers better. Lotus’s is an omni-channel retailer in Thailand, with a commitment to providing great quality products at affordable prices, while doing good things for our customers, colleagues, and communities. We serve customers through our network of more than 2,000 stores nationwide and online platforms, with more than 10.8 transactions made per week. We strive to cater to the ever-changing lifestyles of our customers, with a goal to deliver convenience and a seamless shopping experience anywhere anytime.

About this position

The Retail Purchasing Manager – HBPR (Paper goods) is responsible for sourcing products, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring cost optimization while maintaining high-quality standards and competitiveness in the market.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing product to align with product condition and timeline with purchase strategy development and overall of purchasing.
• Researching, identifying, analyzing and selecting for potential suppliers, evaluating their capabilities with high service level, Good quality product provide and cost optimization.
• Managing for Cost optimization and other income – Annual contract, Trade deal, Cost discount Negotiation, Back margin negotiation.
• Quality – E2E process management, from sourcing to selling activities.
• Ensuring high competitiveness and differentiation of my own category.
• Exploring for distribution opportunity of my own category and execute further action to gain more profit.
• Being professional in brand and product positions within my category and spotting the opportunity.
• Initialing New Product Development to be on plan and also has smooth execution with cross functional team. Sourcing reasonable price, high quality product and trustworthy vendor, working closely with them as business partner for business growth.
• Ensure stock available and stock management.
• Managing Supplier’s performance (VDP), building and maintain long term relationship with currently available supplier. Including understand supplier’s target, KPI and any concerns to bring the win-win negotiation scenario.
• Managing small and medium supplier (SME: Small and Medium Enterprises) with potential profile.
• Managing Big firm & well-known brand supplier and also FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).
• Managing Own Import Product and Own brand product(Under brand Lotus’s, Nax-Nax, Aliv and etc.)

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in Commercial buyer or purchasing experiences with Retail/ Dynamic Business company.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in any related fields.
• Extensive buyer experience in General Merchandise goods would be an advantage.
• Outstanding Negotiation Skill.
• Stock management skill.
• Product knowledge.
• Excel (Expert level) skill.
• Report preparation and data analysis skill.
• Supplier management skill.
• New product development.
• Communication and team player skill.
• Leadership skill and attribute.
• Growth Mindset.
• Situation Leadership skill.
• Delegation skill.
• Agility and resilience.
• Entrepreneurial skill.

Benefits

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Huneety A.I Salary Estimate
60,000 - 150,000 THB per month