Purchasing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understand and challenge customers’ expectations and Product Managers teams
• Help build purchasing strategies
• Manage 3 person in sourcing and purchasing
• Analyze and find useful information from available reporting on countries performance (Penetration rate evolution, Countries sales reports…) that are helpful for business review and sourcing strategy
• Define clear sourcing roadmap with the Sourcing Manager in line with each category’s strategy and priorities 
• Share each category’s strategy and priorities with the Sourcing Manager
• Ensure the market destination intelligence for main countries destination and share with Sourcing Manager team
• Monitor the coordination of product development with all relevant team concerned
• Be the final warrant of the arbitration between the different offers
• Lead and support the new IT Solution implementation
• Identify team’s training needs and propose new training solutions
• Establish turnover and annual forecast of team’s activity with his hierarchy and propose efficient action plans to increase market share and reduce cost

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in Business Administration / International Trade or related disciplines is preferred
• At least 5 years’ experience in a purchasing / management position
• Fluent in oral & written English. French is mandatory
• Contact : laurence.lusang@vidoukin.com