Responsibilities:

• Identifies suppliers who can co-develop products.
• Evaluation of the suppliers.
• Cooperate and maintain good relationship with suppliers who are reliable in providing products.
• Review Trading Terms / Agreement made with the suppliers, process debit balance and negotiate.
• Preparation of the in quires and request of proposals to the potential suppliers.
• Analysis of the offers and comparison in terms of prices, quality offer, time of delivery, general conditions of supply.
• Receiving and control of the Material/Purchasing requirements.
• Source and develop new equipment, product to support stores.
• Conducts market research and analysis to identify products that can be developed and adopted as Products.
• Monitor the performance of Products, identify root causes of shortfall and action plan  to improve performance.
• Responsible stock management and analyze to reduce aging.
• Follow and evaluation of the performances of the suppliers in terms of prices, delivery, conformity of the products with the orders, quality of the products.
• Generate sale, profit, and operating income.
• Responsible for purchasing related assortments.
• Investigate the market price and dealing with suppliers.
• Ensures that products being developed match or better quality than benchmarks and priced lower than the benchmark according to brand positioning.
• Work with Marketing Team to develop new launch activity in stores to drive sales target.
• Perform regular store visits to detect operational problems and follows-up on product quality and presentation and surveys new store.
• Supervise, coach and support the merchandising team with an aim to ensure efficient and productive daily operations.

Qualifications:

• At least Bachelor Degree in marketing, international business administration or any related field.

• Minimum 5 years of work experience in procurement function, food and non-food product development  (experiences in retails business / bakery section would be a plus).

• Strong negotiation skill and good sense of merchandising or commercial.
• Proactive, positive thinking and can do attitude.
• Multi-tasking, responsive, can work under pressure.

• Strong managerial and leadership skills.
• Problem solving and effective communication & interpersonal skills.
• Good command both written & spoken in English.
• Good computer skills (MS office, Oracle).