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Description
The International Vendor Manager deals directly with our vast vendor base, strategically negotiating cost, insuring product quality, and driving on-time delivery. A strong aptitude for analytics, creative problem solving, and an ability to drive projects to completion is essential. This role requires dynamic involvement with multiple groups throughout our business, provides a chance to make a big impact, and offers opportunity for dramatic career growth.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage daily business with hundreds of overseas vendors in China, Vietnam, India, and other countries
- Ensure all production schedules are met, and finished goods are delivered on-time to port
- Negotiate product costing for spend in the hundreds of millions
- Analize information related to shipments, production capacity, purchasing plan, cost negotiations, tariffs, and duties to develier reports on demand
- Travel overseas as needed to achieve excellent results
- Collaborate closely with merchandising, quality, and inventory teams on a daily basis to serve enterprise objectives and understand total impact of any actions
- Drive projects and achieve results by working within and around current systems to meet assigned goals
- Understand the business to help drive process improvements within the department
- Additional duties as assigned by manager
- Supervisory Responsibility – no
- Organizational Scope – Works with various departments and outside parties
- Responsible for maintaining Confidential Information - yes
- Decision Making – Creates policy and resolves problems
- Travel – yes
- Equipment Used – computer, printer, copier, fax
Requirements
Job Qualifications –
Education and Experience:
- 5+ years' experience traveling and negotiating in China and/or other low-cost countries
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA a plus
- Substantial business acumen and experience negotiating multi-turn resolutions and hitting firm deadlines
- Experience managing and directing overseas employees and/or “in-country” management a plus
- Strong interpersonal skills with excellent planning and proven analytic problem solving talent
- Management skills with drive, initiative and “never settle” attitude
- Superb leadership and effective communication skills
- Hands-on experience with sourcing, contract manufacturing, and logistics coordination in a FMCG environment
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Physical Requirements
General office environment requiring ability to:
- stand, walk, sit for extended periods of time
- speak and listen to others in person and over the phone
- use keyboard and read from computer screen and reports
- lift up to 15 lbs.
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