- Sourcing & Procurements - Generate purchase orders, follow up with POs, confirm the status and ensure delivery daily - Source and develop new vendors, craft negotiation strategies and terms on price, payment, and lead time, and close deals with optimal terms - Source and develop new products in Asian Food segments based on various factors such as customer demands, price, quality, availability, market trends, and team budgets - Strategy and Analytics - Develop, lead, optimize, and execute category sourcing and purchasing strategies - Use data and multiple dimension metrics to improve KPIs for inventory level, inventory allocation, turnover, and cash flow - Forecast price, analyze customer buying patterns and market trends to identify and optimize product assortment, pricing as well as changes of balance in buyer-supplier power - Customer-driven, ability to reflect business from the customer side, and increase customer experience through everyday work - Effectively communicate results of KPIs & root cause analysis with the management team and lead corrective action implementation in areas where performance is not meeting expectations - Vendor relationship: - Manage and maintain good vendor relationships and performance by deploying a standard set of metrics to improve vendors’ performance including fill rate, lead time, OSHA requirements, etc - Ability to maintain perspective and confidence in face of difficult price negotiations, exceptionally tight deadlines, and expectations - Partner with cross-functional teams on platform promotions, marketing allocation, mark-downs, payments terms, and other special requests - Other job tasks as assigned - Qualification and Requirement: - Bachelor’s Degree - 1+ years of purchasing and or vendor management experience in retail or related industries - Demonstrated enthusiasm for foods/grocery/snack/drink products and understanding of respective customers - Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills in English, mastery of Chinese/Mandarin is required - Analytical thinker with a positive attitude and flexibility to accommodate evolving business needs - Excellent attention to detail, self-starter with the ability to learn, grow and adapt quickly - Decision-Making: Must be able to assimilate the information gathered by yourself and others (internal & external) to make sound and timely decisions

- Bachelor’s Degree - 1+ years of purchasing and or vendor management experience in retail or related industries - Demonstrated enthusiasm for foods/grocery/snack/drink products and understanding of respective customers - Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills in English, mastery of Chinese/Mandarin is required - Analytical thinker with a positive attitude and flexibility to accommodate evolving business needs - Excellent attention to detail, self-starter with the ability to learn, grow and adapt quickly - Decision-Making: Must be able to assimilate the information gathered by yourself and others (internal & external) to make sound and timely decisions