Purchasing Officer

Date: 25 Dec 2024

Location: VN

Company: Coats

Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities

1. Supply Management

  • To ensure the supply of all direct materials (fibre, filament, dye chemical, packaging, …), indirect services and finished goods from 3rd party suppliers, contractors and inter-company in the best possible value, high quality and in compliance with Procurement standards, Company Policy, Health and Safety Standards.
  • To cooperate with Sourcing Manager to execute the sourcing activities, improvement initiatives, saving projects and other improvements.
  • To act urgently and flexibly in case of business changes or requirements to meet Customer Demand in terms of Coats products or services.
  • To work well internal team (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Finance) to supply raw materials and service on time for meeting customers expectation.
  1. Supplier Management.
  • To conduct periodical supplier performance evaluation, supplier audit with key suppliers and key stakeholders (planning, quality, safety...). And giving feedback to suppliers to have the improvement actions (if required) to maintain a high-quality Supplier Base in the company.
  • To maintain and develop the supplier relationships with key suppliers, or key sub-contractors to ensure the strategic supply to Coats at higher quality standard and best possible value spend.
  • To conducting regular supplier meetings, visits together with key stakeholders to ensure the supply of raw materials, services are at good service level and right quality.
  • To participating in supplier workshops, supplier code events, quality workshops, supplier events ... to initiate saving ideas or improvement ideas to deliver all Procurement KPIs.
  • To drive the supplier consolidation & reduction in line with global strategy
  1. Compliance with Procurement Policy, Company Policy and Standards
  • To ensure the Purchasing Operation Activities highly comply with Procurement Policy, Company Policies and Standards, Processes and Systems Globally and Locally.
  • To improve and simplify current processes (if possible) to reduce the operation workload, documentation in procurement as well as working with other stakeholders / functions increase the efficiency of the operational activities in the company.
  • To ensure all the purchasing data (prices, vendors, contracts ...) maintained accurately in the system as well as updated in the required database correctly and continuously.
  • To comply with Coats Anti-Corruption and Bribery policies.
 

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Desirable

 

  • Bachelor’s Degree graduated from University of Economic or Foreign Trade
  • Good English
  • 2-3 years experiences at MNC companies

 

  • SAP knowledge, esp. MM module
  • Good at Excel, Power Query, Power BI, Microsoft Outlook
  • Other reporting systems at Coats