Purchasing Officer

Role Purpose

Manage (local and oversea) purchasing transactions (total value of purchasing transaction baseline est. 100M$) for direct and indirect materials and services at Coats Phong Phu to support Business Growth / Agility.

Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities

1. Supply Management

• To ensure the supply of all direct materials (fibre, filament, dye chemical, packaging, …),

indirect services and finished goods from 3rd party suppliers, contractors and inter-

company in the best possible value, high quality and in compliance with Procurement

standards, Company Policy, Health and Safety Standards.

• To cooperate with Sourcing Manager to execute the sourcing activities, improvement

initiatives, saving projects and other improvements.

• To act urgently and flexibly in case of business changes or requirements to meet

Customer Demand in terms of Coats products or services.

• To work well internal team (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Finance) to supply raw

materials and service on time for meeting customers expectation.

2. Supplier Management.

• To conduct periodical supplier performance evaluation, supplier audit with key suppliers

and key stakeholders (planning, quality, safety...). And giving feedback to suppliers to

have the improvement actions (if required) to maintain a high-quality Supplier Base in

the company.

• To maintain and develop the supplier relationships with key suppliers, or key sub-

contractors to ensure the strategic supply to Coats at higher quality standard and best

possible value spend.

• To conducting regular supplier meetings, visits together with key stakeholders to ensure

the supply of raw materials, services are at good service level and right quality.

• To participating in supplier workshops, supplier code events, quality workshops, supplier

events ... to initiate saving ideas or improvement ideas to deliver all Procurement KPIs.

• To drive the supplier consolidation & reduction in line with global strategy

3. Compliance with Procurement Policy, Company Policy and Standards

• To ensure the Purchasing Operation Activities highly comply with Procurement Policy,

Company Policies and Standards, Processes and Systems Globally and Locally.

• To improve and simplify current processes (if possible) to reduce the operation workload,

documentation in procurement as well as working with other stakeholders / functions

increase the efficiency of the operational activities in the company.

• To ensure all the purchasing data (prices, vendors, contracts ...) maintained accurately in

the system as well as updated in the required database correctly and continuously.

• To comply with Coats Anti-Corruption and Bribery policies.

• Bachelor’s Degree graduated from University of Economic or Foreign Trade

• Good English

• 2-3 years experiences at MNC companies

• SAP knowledge, esp. MM module

• Good at Excel, Power Query, Power BI, Microsoft Outlook