Our client, a European buying office located in Hong Kong is looking for high caliber candidates to fill the Senior Merchandiser position.

GENERAL MISSION

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

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ø 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.

Ø Offering:

- Develop excellent relationships with our partners in order to collect all the products needs and market information.

- Prepare/validate product information and offer customer product datasheet.

- Continuously improving his knowledge of product and quality norms at customer market.

- Be force of proposal: provide new opportunities to our customers (innovation, stock, bomb prices…).

Ø 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.

Ø 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.

REQUIREMENTS

- College degree or above.

- Rich experience in LARGE DOMESTIC APPLIANCES is MANDATORY 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.

- French, German, or other European language is a plus