Senior Purchasing Officer
About this position
The Senior Purchasing Officer is responsible for procuring materials, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring timely availability of materials while contributing to continuous improvements within the department.
Responsibilities
• Procure materials per MRP and ensure availability of material on time
• Handle exception messages from the MRP (send, move forward, re-schedule in/out or cancel an order); confirm and communicate related firm and forecast requirements to the suppliers
• Identify and analyze procurement impact of point
• Negotiate lead-times/quantities with suppliers.
• Manage suppliers' acknowledgments, send reminders to suppliers if necessary
• Contribute to the monitoring of the supplier's, alert internal customers whenever necessary
• To be leader or team support of problem solving, projects
• Escalation for the critical items
• Escalation the purchase master data and feedback to Sourcing to maintain the system to accurate
• Responsible for ERP key user
• Support & drive First articles order
• Support & drive continuous improvements of department, Company's KPI
• Follow strictly the company standard & requirement
Requirements
• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• Be familiar with the content of suppliers' contracts Skills
• Good communication skills (clearly and concisely)
• Good in negotiation skill
• Teamwork, Cross-functional work experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in Supply chain, Procurement, Sourcing, planning
• Software skills, ERP, MRP, MS office especially excel (Pivot Table, Charts,...)
• Knowledge in AS9001/ISO9001/ISO14000 will be an advantage
• Chemical purchase knowledge is advantage