Centralize Purchasing Officer

Be a member of Procurement Department of Panasonic Vietnam (Headquarter) performing Procurement support jobs for Panasonic Factories, both local and overseas, briefly as follows:

1) Developing Vietnamese suppliers to export

• Research suppliers (Data examination: production items, capacity, quality label etc.)

• Developing competitive suppliers

• Support for sample arrangement & evaluation in factory

• Launch & support local suppliers, especially in terms of Quality issues for approval by Panasonic & stabilization for Mass Production

2) Manage centralize activity in Vietnam

- To centralize supplier contacts to ensure observation of related law/ regulations and to prevent illicit transactions in procurement activity.

- To visualize procurement status in order to optimize supplier selection and pricing operations.

- To work with related Panasonic companies/ related department on any unique purchase requests.

- To take part in regular supplier evaluation and to implement improvement activities if any

- To work closely with related departments to ensure satisfaction with suppliers' performance. Ensure quality and cost objectives are met

- To work closely with centralized team in Japan (HQ) and the region (Asia Pacific)

- Other tasks assigned by Department Head

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably from Technical Universities. Fresh graduate is also encouraged to apply

• Working experience in a relevant position in Production Makers/ Manufacturing companies or Trading companies is preferred

• Have experience to evaluate suppliers

• Have experience or knowledge for trading business & basic quality issues

• Able to go to suppliers (factory) frequently (3-4 times per week)

• Good English communication skills

• Good communication, analytical skills

• Self-motivated and desire to improve trading business skill

• Good MS Office skills (esp. Excel, PowerPoint)