GENERAL MISSION

Helps the Company to develop import from China, for television product line she/he’s in charge.

REPORTING TO: GENERAL MANAGER

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Coaching:

• Animate his/her team.
• Weekly business unit meeting with Head Office and business unit including quality and logistic department.
• Contribution as a trainer: transfer of know how. 

Sourcing: 

• Identify the competitive resource area for his product line. 
• Propose and anticipate the new sourcing areas and production zones to her/his direct manager. 
• Be creative and use new ways to source. 
• Source most reliable and performing suppliers according to the quality requirements and policies of the Company. 
• Validate suppliers data base. 
• Be aware of the industry/product development tendency inside China. 
• Be aware of the changes of client needs in customer market. 
• Answer the sourcing requirement of customer and actively provide new products sourcing in China. 
• Collect information about our competitors’ activity during frequent factory visits and propose opportunities and counter offers to our partners. 

Product development:

• Share, participate and bring her/his support on commercial side and product development activities:
• Evaluate the potential manufacturers for new development. 
• Concept, planning, design and execution stages of new products. 
• Provides his opinion on the design options. 
• Evaluate potential design feasibility with Product Development Engineer. 
• Interact with cost-effectiveness. 
• Review product documentation for accuracy including documentation intended for customers use. 
• Evaluate product non-conformances and recommend design modifications. 

Technological survey and pro-activeness of new features and/or technology related to television industry. 

• Panel prices and availability. 
• New panel technology. 
• New chip set technology. 
• New software technology. 
• License global understanding and global knowledge. 

Offering: 

• Develop excellent relationships with the manufacturers in order to collect all the products needs and market information. 
• Prepare/validate product information and offer customer product datasheet. 
• Benchmarking and prices comparisons among existing suppliers and others potential manufacturers
• Synthesis information with spreadsheet including precise features, technology. 
• Ability to adjust the offering to the brand strategy defined by the Head Office and/or Partner.
• In charge of flat cost calculation and information provided to the Head Office. 
• Continuously improving his knowledge of product and quality norms at customer market. 
• Be force of proposal: provide new opportunities to the Head Office and/or Partners (innovation, stock, bomb prices…). 

Negotiation: 

• Negotiate the order elements, such as supplier, price, PCB, quantity, delivery etc., before order placement. 
• Respect and reinforce the ethical rules of the company with the suppliers. 

Coordination: 

• Work together with his team for her/his product line with consistent thinking and actions to achieve common goals. 
• Coordinate between supplier and customer to achieve best solution for all. 
• Coordinate with other departments for relevant issues such as delivery, payment, quality to smooth the daily operation concerning his product line. 
• Involve Quality team and R&D team in all the steps of the process: selection of the suppliers and anticipation of the product compliance. 
• Keep Quality Dpt. and engineers informed about any changes of Product requested by the customers before ordering.

All the activities should be on the basis of the Company ethic rules. 

Orders follow up: 

• Respect of the target ETD’s. 
• Specific action whenever necessary to control the service level in coordination with the Logistic department.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

• Annual turnover evolution global and per destination market.
• Annual supplier payment credit evolution. -
• Number of days in trip for sourcing.
• Ratio of new supplier ordered compared with new supplier sourced. 
• Customer satisfaction rate (on-time delivery rate, answer on customers’ needs with orders…).
• On-time ratio of order delivery.

REQUIREMENTS

• College degree or above.
• Rich experience in relevant area and knowledge for export business for at least 10 years.
• Excellent skills of communication, market analyzing, sourcing and negotiation.
• Wide range of product channel & sensitive taste of potential products.
• High commercial sense to realize market needs.
• High coordination ability with customers and suppliers. - High sense of ethics and integrity, dynamic and honest, dedicated, systematic and initiative.
• Willing to undertake the pressure and frequent travel around. - Fluent English both in spoken & written.

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