Assistant General Manager - Supply Chain

- Must have experience in sourcing of Raw Materials and Packing materials and managing vendors

- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness

- Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms

- Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation

- Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power

- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

- Assess, manage and mitigate risks

- Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers

- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries

- Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand

- Propose improvements to the current purchasing system that will improve vendor relationships and lower the cost of doing business

- Collaborate with inventory control and sales to develop metrics for gauging inventory level needs and then maintaining those levels throughout the year

- Take the lead in creating profitable ways to manage obsolete and slow-moving stock to help offset losses

- Manage the day-to-day purchasing activities and ensure that all purchasing agents are meeting their personal performance standards

- Assist in developing more effective invoicing and collecting processes