ABOUT THE FUNCTION

Secure business objectives according to Company Purchasing Strategy:

• Establish high performing and diverse supplier base which can meet the needs of our business and customer.

• Aims for the wished position of being preferred business partner for new company suppliers.

• Optimise value chain that can make better products and service at lower total cost for the many people.

• Deliver excellent results to meet goals.

• Act as One company together with relevant functions and people contributing towards company goals

   

ABOUT THE JOB

Contribute to company growth and long term sustainable competitiveness, by:

• Identify, act and develop market opportunities and market knowledge; materialize them for company by New Business.

• Identify, act and develop business opportunities to develop existing inventions into company home furnishing innovations.

• Contribute to market intelligence in existing and new sourcing markets to increase market knowledge and deliver it in structured way as input into ONE company business plan together with Category Analyst.

• Contribute to the wished position of being preferred business partner for new company suppliers and development partners to create flow of new suppliers knocking on company doors.

   

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify, act on and materialize market opportunities based on new business assignments from category, free range as well as development matrix.

• Lead and drive new business assignments. Start up new suppliers, new materials/components and new technologies. As for category & free range assignments, lead the supplier evaluation where we verify and qualify supplier capabilities including product compliance, IWAY, Quality and Financial due diligence and then hand over new supplier to category business team after new supplier council and 1st delivery. As for new material & innovation assignment, evaluate, verify and qualify new product and material, follow up till sample approval or 1st delivery and then handover to the categories.

• Independently leading a project and deliver the results. It could be a sourcing mapping project, or how to converting a new material into company products.

   

REQUIREMENT

• Understand how the overall supply chain works.

• Strong leadership

• Creative thinking and innovation spirit, thinking out of box.

• Daring to try new things and make things possible happen, have the entrepreneurial spirit

• Strong analyzing and fact base capability, Sharp enough for all received information to sort out and narrow down the valid information from all kinds of market information.

• With a lot of curiosity and passion for learning new things, Fast learner and strong learning capability.

• Super strong communication and influencing capability.

• Have high sensitivity on the business opportunity and passion to make it happen.

NOTE

• Around 70% business trip, in difference city and province depends on the project needs.

• Equals senior business developer level, have the potential to be developed in future BDM(Business develop manager).