Buyer (Shopee Consignment Service) (Scommerce)

About the Company

The Buyer Team plays a crucial role in purchasing, ensuring that our company effectively sources the right products with competitive prices and manages supplier relationships to meet business objectives. The key functions include:

• Product Sourcing: Identifying and evaluating potential suppliers to ensure quality, price-competitiveness, and timely delivery of products.
• Supplier relationship management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers to foster collaboration and negotiate favorable SKUs.
• SKU management: Analyzing market trends and consumer behavior to develop category-specific strategies that optimize SKU offerings.

Responsibilities

• Proactively call and pitch suppliers to obtain specific prices for targeted products, ensuring competitiveness and alignment with business goals.
• Identify and source potential products by evaluating suppliers’ supply chain capabilities and cost structures.
• Drive performance by achieving sourcing, sales, and margin targets while maintaining a strong focus on KPIs.
• Monitor SKU and supplier performance, analyze market trends, and implement improvement initiatives to enhance business results.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to support initiatives such as COGS renegotiation and clearance of slow-moving SKUs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including onboarding, warehouse, operations, and finance, to ensure smooth execution and continuous improvement across processes.
• Assist suppliers in resolving various challenges they encounter within the SCS business and provide guidance and support to help them navigate operational hurdles.

Qualifications

• A goal-oriented mindset with strong resilience under pressure and the ability to maintain focus in fast-paced environments.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management, preferably in a retail or e-commerce environment.
• Good communication skills; proven negotiation skills with a strong ability to influence and persuade suppliers.
• Strong ability to identify issues and develop effective solutions.
• Fluent Chinese speakers are preferred.