Mandarin Chinese speaking Group Buyer
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✓Ref: 22113
✓Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking Group Buyer
✓The Skills you'll use each day: Mandarin and English fluent
✓Solid previous buyer experience.
✓Your New Salary: Up to £75k depending on the experience
✓Location: London
✓Job type: permanent
✓Reports to: Managing Director
✓What you'll be doing each day:
✓To source quality products with UK and overseas suppliers at the most cost-efficient price, whilst maintaining consistent supply.
✓* Build and maintain strong supplier relationships.
✓* Negotiate prices to maximise product profitability.
✓* Review supplier list and recruit improved additional and/or alternative suppliers [e.g
✓based on price / location / quality accreditation etc.] to reduce risk.
✓* Ensure regularity of order placement and drive supplier commitment for products to be delivered on time.
✓* Minimise out of stocks by successful demand planning and procurement.
✓* Source new products through liaison with Senior Management and Sales ensuring product specification from suppliers.
✓* Forecast commodity/raw material pricing, market trends and global shortages by keeping up to date with industry news etc.
✓* Provide accurate and relevant feedback and insight to Senior Management and Sales.
✓* Communicate any product changes [in recipe, pack size, packaging material, manufacturing site, discontinuation etc] to the relevant cross-functional team in a timely manner.
✓* Assess and mitigate supply risks on an ongoing basis.
✓* Participate in the long-term strategies of the purchasing function.
✓* Partner with key departmental heads across the business to optimise business performance.
✓* Use initiative to implement cost savings and efficiency improvements within buying.
✓* Responsible for all administration of the purchasing function.
✓* Analyse historical sales reports to feed into future forecasts and stock holding levels.
✓* Attendance of trade events to network and generate relevant ideas for new product development.
✓* Assist with recruitment of buying team and take responsibility for coaching mentoring and development of the team
✓* Adherence to Company H&S Policy and Procedures
✓The skills you need to succeed:
✓* Fluent is both Mandarin and English.
✓* Solid previous buyer experiences
✓Working hours: 9:00am-6:00pm
✓Working style: full time office based
✓Please view all our Chinese jobs at people-first-recruitment
✓Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-china
✓We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document
✓If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days
✓We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs
✓Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.
✓People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture
✓We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.
✓People First [Recruitment] Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers
✓Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our website Show more →
✓Ref: 22113
✓Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking Group Buyer
✓The Skills you'll use each day: Mandarin and English fluent
✓Solid previous buyer experience.
✓Your New Salary: Up to £75k depending on the experience
✓Location: London
✓Job type: permanent
✓Reports to: Managing Director
✓What you'll be doing each day:
✓To source quality products with UK and overseas suppliers at the most cost-efficient price, whilst maintaining consistent supply.
✓* Build and maintain strong supplier relationships.
✓* Negotiate prices to maximise product profitability.
✓* Review supplier list and recruit improved additional and/or alternative suppliers [e.g
✓based on price / location / quality accreditation etc.] to reduce risk.
✓* Ensure regularity of order placement and drive supplier commitment for products to be delivered on time.
✓* Minimise out of stocks by successful demand planning and procurement.
✓* Source new products through liaison with Senior Management and Sales ensuring product specification from suppliers.
✓* Forecast commodity/raw material pricing, market trends and global shortages by keeping up to date with industry news etc.
✓* Provide accurate and relevant feedback and insight to Senior Management and Sales.
✓* Communicate any product changes [in recipe, pack size, packaging material, manufacturing site, discontinuation etc] to the relevant cross-functional team in a timely manner.
✓* Assess and mitigate supply risks on an ongoing basis.
✓* Participate in the long-term strategies of the purchasing function.
✓* Partner with key departmental heads across the business to optimise business performance.
✓* Use initiative to implement cost savings and efficiency improvements within buying.
✓* Responsible for all administration of the purchasing function.
✓* Analyse historical sales reports to feed into future forecasts and stock holding levels.
✓* Attendance of trade events to network and generate relevant ideas for new product development.
✓* Assist with recruitment of buying team and take responsibility for coaching mentoring and development of the team
✓* Adherence to Company H&S Policy and Procedures
✓The skills you need to succeed:
✓* Fluent is both Mandarin and English.
✓* Solid previous buyer experiences
✓Working hours: 9:00am-6:00pm
✓Working style: full time office based
✓Please view all our Chinese jobs at people-first-recruitment
✓Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-china
✓We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document
✓If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days
✓We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs
✓Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.
✓People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture
✓We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.
✓People First [Recruitment] Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers
✓Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our website Show more →