In a nutshell

Own execution from order confirmation to shipment and ensure issues are deal with efficiently and quickly through use of your great organizational skills; on point to make sure we deliver goods on time and give our customers great availability; you will have an eye for detail and be confident challenging stakeholders and shouting out risk. You will have a strong desire to learn and grow in your role.

What I need to do

• Be aware of UK performance and immediate commercial priorities from weekly trade, understand trade meeting outputs and commercial dynamics, proactively respond to trading needs. Understand our business vision and goal and play a positive role.
• Attend weekly progress meetings with cross functional colleagues in Asia, UK colleagues and suppliers to provide a clear visibility of order status. Effectively influencing and managing supplier performance
• Have a clear understanding of our operating procedures and be familiar with all necessary systems and our ways-of-working and support the sustainability agenda. 
• Support the order management process from purchase order to shipment delivery; maintain accurate purchase order records and critical path trackers, monitoring delivery and flagging potential risk, identify solutions with suppliers; escalating to line manager
• Engage with the Origin Supply Chain time to support timely handover of goods and optimize shipping
• Support on supplier set up process and support the process of new supplier sourcing
• Manage raw material planning with mills, suppliers capacity availability and provide clarity to my UK Merchandising colleagues

What I need to know

• Able to articulate a clear interest in sourcing, merchandising and production. Developing knowledge of production processes, techniques, and product components. Understand the levers that drive lead times for the different regions and products worked on
• A developing awareness of the different cultures that I interact with
• I can read commercial reports and I understand basic commercial metrics such as cover and have the confidence to learn new systems
• Excellent business written and spoken English and Mandarin

J Sainsbury Plc is one of the UK’s leading Grocery and Non Food retailers. Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 and our heritage defines the way we operate. Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer where customers and colleagues love to work and shop, and our 160,000 colleagues put this into practice every day across our 1,200 multi format stores in the UK. We put our customers and their values at the heart of everything do, and apply industry leading ethical trading practices underpinned by a firm commitment to sustainable sourcing.

Sainsbury’s Argos Asia is the direct sourcing function for Sainsbury’s. We source great products from suppliers at the best quality and the right cost in order to provide our customers with the products they love. To support the ongoing growth of our strategic sourcing from the region we are now looking for confident and passionate candidates to join our team in challenging and enjoyable roles.

Find out more about us at http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/ and http://www.sainsburys.co.uk