Sourcing Specialist

Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities:

• Role has equal responsibility of new business development and smooth execution of the placed business.
• Sourcing from multiple media, websites, trade shows for new suppliers / new products in India region.
• Source, evaluate, develop and grow suppliers/manufacturers relationship within product category.
• Identify business opportunity and line up feasible suppliers through validation to drive gross margin improvement, cost competitiveness, PB penetration and incremental sales,
• Organize cost/business comparison sheets and additional supporting documentation to provide a comprehensive analysis on product specifications and cost to assist decision makers (Manager/Product Development Merchants) to present to the Merchant Teams.
• Support PLR/CTR & RBR events & Fair Meetings for merchants.
• Provide coaching to suppliers during the on boarding process to ensure compliance and documents collection: SSK, SBA, RTV, NDA, Financial and Legal certifications, etc.
• Prepare and administer completion of vendor profile, FCQA, SWOT analysis and factory visit reports.
• Maintain existing supplier information, including contact list, signed SBA, RTV, NDA, Financial and Legal certification, company profile, product photo recap, etc.
• File and correctly group new catalogues.
• Prepare agenda for key project conference call and record meeting minutes.
• Assist in the arrangement of trip itineraries and the arrangement of accommodation including hotel booking and transportation.
• Daily communication with Supply Chain, IPR for projects follow up.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Identify risk in delivery, and prepare factory visit plan based on priority, routes easiness and efficiency, prior to and during shipping period.
• Request financial assessment and take actions on factories with High and Medium to High risk, including factory visit and come up with recommendation for risk mitigation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or other technical background.
• Candidate must have above 10 years of experience for relevant product categories.
• Understanding of Indian Manufacturing and Vendor landscape.
• Understanding of Supply chain diversification.
• High level of efficiency and proactivity.
• Product Categories- Tools (Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing etc.), Hard goods.