1/ Business development

• Understand and transport the customer needs into a framework for a successful procurement of highly profitable and innovative assortments
• Participate in customers annual business and strategy talks
• Align on budgets and timelines for the assortment categories
• Seek for bundling opportunities within the OBI Group Sourcing Asia product portfolio
• Monitor critical path of production and approval process
• Coordinate offer management and accompany buying trips
• Act as on site escalation channel for our customers

 

2/ Assortment and supplier management

• Implement sourcing strategies, considering supplier performance, observing the sourcing landscape in Asia and mitigating risks for dependency
• Set the framework for Supplier Risk Management
• Drive the strategy for sourcing and manufacturing our customers private label products
• Prepare and conduct annual supplier reviews
• Support customers on volume forecasts, capacity blocking and cost negotiation

 

3/ End to End Stakeholder Management

• Develop with our customers Category Management Teams, concepts for modern assortment and sourcing management
• Implement and manage the needed framework in Asia
• Share the business strategy with our suppliers and jointly develop solutions for assortments as well as procedures to optimize cost, quality and lead-times
• Observe market developments and derive adjustment needs for the general sourcing strategy or procurement processes
• Pro-actively present business opportunities to our customers for optimization opportunities

 

4/ Team development

• Manage and coach team subordinates: Responsible for department management, such as communication, evaluation, coaching
• Ensure customers strategy is shared and understood,
• Encourage continuous learning and coaching of product knowledge, market practice, quality standards etc.
• Focus on our staff’s career development
• Set up an analytical and result oriented work atmosphere
• Foster a good team atmosphere and a healthy team spirit
• Lead by example

• Bachelor degree or above
• Over 10 years merchandising/sourcing experience and at least 4 years of experience in account management / trading on managerial level
• Good knowledge of exporting, DIY products according to European standards
• Commercial and sales driven mindset
• Ability to think end to end
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to think end-to-end and analyze complex tasks and relationships
• Proactive mindset, strong negotiation, presentation, and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated strength in resilience, outstanding team leadership, and collaboration as a team player
• Strong command of English, other languages of advantage
• Good at MS office and ERP skills

OBI Group Sourcing Hong Kong Limited is a member of the OBI Group, We are a buying office of a leading German Do-It-Yourself home improvement products stores-chain with over 640 outlets throughout Eastern and Western Europe.

• 5 Days Work
• Flexible Working Hour
• Performance Bonus
• Medical & Dental Benefit