Dah Chen Shoe Materials Co., Ltd (Taiwan)

* Merchandising specialist

- Working with R&D, production and customers in manufacturing samples.
- Tracking and pushing the sample production, ensuring sample quality before delivery.
- Receiving and controlling POs, prepared quotations to customers.
- Negotiating with suppliers for ordering materials and discussing contracts, prices.
- Responsible for providing customer's guidelines to the factory and monitoring strict application during production processes.
- Collaborating with SCM and IW/WM ensuring materials for production.
- Communicating with the factory ensures fully and accurately understanding requirements for dimension, test and quality standard, packing and timelines.
- Responding to customer's complaints and giving after-sales support.
- Sourcing suppliers with high quality materials and competitive prices, satisfied delivery.
- Cultivating a strong supplier base by evaluating, monitoring and upgrading performance of existing and potential supplier/ vendors.

TAPS Vietnam Limited Company (Korea)

* Assistant director cum purchasing and sales

* Responsibilities for purchase:
- Performing supplier/vendor selection and negotiation price and contract terms.
- Sourcing significant materials and goods (EPS/EVA/GPPS resin, S.A.P, medical equipment and supplies, household appliances, cosmetics, FMCG,...) align with the company provision and business strategies.
- Administering purchase orders, contracts, purchase invoices, import export documents.
- Developing sourcing strategies on specific categories and customer requirements.
- Corresponding with logistics on arrival shipments, and inventory management in inspecting incoming commodities at warehouse.
- Implementing existing supplier evaluation quarterly.
* Responsibilities for sales:
- Ensuring provision and enhancing sales activities on MT channel, overseeing and publicizing progress of contracts, recovering public debts.
- Carrying out new products launching campaigns.
- Founding and implementing strategic business on E-commerce platforms.
- Evaluating the customer care and sales team performance, providing product training to the sales/ distributors/ retailers.
- Supporting in seeking key customers as targeted.
- Building relationships with existing and potential customers.
- Disentangling complaints, disputes and objections in sales closing.

Tamatra Company Limited (Vietnam)

* Procurement manager - Supply chain

* Responsibility:
- In charge of oversea and local procurement including raw and supplementary materials (PP/PE/EVA plastic resins, filler masterbatch, chemicals, fabric, packaging/ bag, fuel, thread/ yarn, printing plate...), industrial machineries (machineries, MRO supplies, electronic components, tools, consumable supplies...), other items (electrical appliances, office supplies, building materials, food & drinks, medicine, service...) for two factories.
- Responsible for granting approval of requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, goods received and delivery note, and rafting contracts, procurement, import export process,...
- Preparing whole supporting documentation for annual internal and external evaluation and audition (Board of supervisor, ISO, FSSC and customers).
* Procurement plan:
- Developing and implementing local and international procurement strategies to ensure the department comply with the objectives of the business to add value, mitigate supply chain risk and deliver cost savings.
- Monthly preparing procurement budget to the CFO ensures timely cash flow balance and procurement activities efficiently.
- Constantly implement a demand and supply planning process based on sales forecast, production plan and inventory levels.
- Coordinating with the production and planning department to monitor the quality and progress of processing products at outsourcing factories, tracking export import events.
* Sourcing management:
- Managing and supervising all transactional procurement including tendering processes evaluation, legal considerations, contract negotiation, payment and delivery terms, contractors performance evaluation and risk assessment.
- Launching strategic procurement including sourcing strategy, category management, supplier positioning, supplier selection and evaluation, quality management, and performance measurement, do market analysis to identify cost savings opportunities.
- Liaising with internal stakeholder demands, working with factory, R&D, sales and technical department to understand the requirements of different products/ samples/ projects/ MRO, then execute efficient sourcing activities.
* Supplier management:
- Establishing and maintaining strong partnerships with suppliers to increase performance, costs optimization, innovation proposal and risk mitigation.
- Segmenting the suppliers into different groups based on their characteristics and identifying strategies to manage relationships with suppliers accordingly.
- Annually existing supplier evaluations align with the company provision.
* Logistics and inventory management:
- Working with a logistics company/ shipping line ensures customs clearance/ declaration and booking for imports and exports quickly, monitoring transportation of materials, machineries, supplies to final destination.
- Lobbying forwarder/ logistics in booking containers, trucks, supporting customs procedures services with competitive prices.
- Controlling and managing the inventory levels and safety stock to ensure availability of stock raw and supplementary materials, supplies.
- Overseeing semi-finished products, finished products, plastic and steel scrap.
- Handling the near-expired, damage, errors according to the company policies.

Perfect Belts Pvt Ltd (India)

* Quản lý quốc gia

- In charge of purchase, import and export, sales, marketing and distributions in Vietnam.
- Implementing strategic procurement including sourcing strategy, specification evaluation, category management, supplier selection and evaluation.
- Developing strategic sales including understanding customer needs, expanding into new markets, new products launch, quotation preparation, market share and accelerating strong customer relationships.
- Working with OEM/ suppliers in ordering as a customer's PO, proceeding price and contract terms negotiation.
- Compiling customers feedback on specifications, supporting customers in customs declaration and usage of spare parts, equipment.