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The Purchasing Specialist who is responsible for planning sourcing and purchasing all products within the assigned category(ies); will have endtoend ownership of a category of our products.
Daily functions include sourcing new vendors building and managing vendor relations negotiating costs and terms maintaining existing product lines and setting up new product lines respectively.
He/she will also interact with our marketing and promotion teams to come up with pricing and selling plans and make decisions on how to scale and expand our customer base and drive GMV growth and margins.
The goal of our merchandising team is to drive GMV and customer growth while maintaining healthy margins. This position will require bilingual skills to communicate and negotiate with both domestic and international vendors.
Job Responsibilities:
Sourcing & Procurement
Generate purchase orders follow up with POs confirm the status and ensure delivery daily
Source and develop new vendors craft negotiation strategies and terms on price payment and lead time and close deals with optimal terms
Source and develop new products in Asian Food segments based on various factors such as customer demands price quality availability market trends and team budgets
Strategy and Analytics
Develop lead optimize and execute category sourcing and purchasing strategies
Use data and multiple dimension metrics to improve KPIs for inventory level inventory allocation turnover and cash flow
Forecast price analyze customer buying patterns and market trends to identify and optimize product assortment pricing as well as changes of balance in buyersupplier power
Customerdriven ability to reflect business from the customer side and increase customer experience through everyday work
Effectively communicate results of KPIs & root cause analysis with the management team and lead corrective action implementation in areas where performance is not meeting expectations
Vendor relationship:
Manage and maintain good vendor relationships and performance by deploying a standard set of metrics to improve vendors performance including fill rate lead time OSHA requirements etc
Ability to maintain perspective and confidence in face of difficult price negotiations exceptionally tight deadlines and expectations
Partner with crossfunctional teams on platform promotions marketing allocation markdowns payments terms and other special requests
Other Job tasks as assigned
Qualification and Requirement:
Benefits & Compensation:
401(k) matching
Health insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off (PTO): vacation sick and holidays
Onsite gym and game rooms
Employee discount
$60K80K
Full Time