Purchasing Officer

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Date: 20 Feb 2025

Location: VN

Company: Coats

Reports to: Purchasing Manager, Vietnam

ROLE PURPOSE

Manage (local and oversea) purchasing transactions (total value of purchasing transaction baseline est. 100M$)

for direct and indirect materials and services at Coats Phong Phu to support Business Growth / Agility

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES AND KEY ACTIVITIES

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.

2. 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

3. 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.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential:

Desirable:

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