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Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

Working in Global TOP outdoor brand Thule, I’m taking full responsibility of project management and purchasing activities on Asian supplier base.• Manage purchasing activities for Asian suppliers, overseeing $30M-$50M annual spend for roof top tents and sports carriers.• Task based leading cross-functional teams to ensure timely product development and mass production.• Achieved cost reduction goals through strategic supplier sourcing and cost data optimization.• Leverage different methods to overcome MOQ issues, through consolidation or pre-purchase to get best deal.• Develop and maintain a robust supplier base, improving quality, delivery, and cost metrics.• Implement capacity planning and optimal transportation strategies to minimize risks and secure best landed cost.Key Achievements:- Drove the full sourcing and development process of award-winning (IF DESIGN, Red Dot) products.- Enhanced supplier performance, Secure replenishments from Asian suppliers to both Europe and US production sites.

Xuhui District, Shanghai, China

Take the leadership in the Aluminum Category (die-casting, profile, bakeware products) business development team on logistics to ensure supplier has goods ready in time and in full in order to fulfil customers’ need at lowest possible landed cost. - Achieving excellence in running logistics operations in accordance with Category Plan, by interacting with respective stakeholders and complying with working methods. - Taking the lead in operational capacity planning at supplier level and contributing to tactical capacity planning. Lead capacity ramp up plan.- Prepare suppliers for best replenishment and delivery solutions, continuously follow-up, analyses and takes action to improve supplier delivery performance and ensures goods are shipped in time from suppliers.- Working on risk assessment for both internal and external suppliers to secure availability to IKEA.- Improving logistics performance through common Action Plans with Suppliers.- Develop and maintain suppliers’ logistic competence towards becoming responsible on their own performance through : working closely with suppliers, running Supplier Development Projects and providing them relevant trainings & working methods.

Jing’An District, Shanghai, China

2016/04-2021/01: H&M Shanghai Production Office , Global Purchasing / Strategic merchandiserMain responsibility is to secure the Best Global Buy aligned with buying & supply chain strategies. As a Purchasing and Strategic Merchandiser, I. - Deliver strategy requests to each production region and offer new optimized opportunities to buying side in begin of season;- Drive the product development, quotation and order follow-up processes through colleagues in the Production offices;- Monitor each production region to offer appropriate products according to requests and secure best deal to offer to buying side;- Optimize quantity allocation among different production regions to maximize profit and minimize risks;- Help each supplier to improve their capability and offer latest trends from supplier own development to buying side;- Follow up and analyze KPI results on price, LT, on time delivery, claims, capacity assurance each month;- Closely follow up capacity status from supplier chains;- Summarize positive and negative parts at the end of each season, optimize working methods; - Assign tasks to assistant merchandisers and grow their competencies to further steps.

Shanghai, China

2012/3 - 2016/3: H&M Shanghai Production Office , Quotation / Production Merchandiser for footwear Deep familiar with whole merchandising working procedure, receive develop request from buying side, decide appropriate suppliers to handle the styles. Provide best deal to buyers by offering best prices, samples, and best production LT, allocating big volume quantities in different suppliers and markets, tracking order status to make sure on time delivery. - Create a good dialogue and build trust with both Swedish buyers and suppliers.- Managing suppliers’ capacity and monitoring suppliers’ performance- Good team work with other diverse roles in the group on sampling and production stage, such as material responsible, technicians, QA, QC;- Focus on securing best prices, sample LT, production LT, quantity/market share and on time delivery.- Monitor assistants in daily work to accomplish tasks and help assistants to grow their competencies. Succeed running two projects, one is shoes’ consumption analysis and another is ‘on time clarify to all merchandisers. To help all merchandisers increased negotiation and clearer on ‘on time’ requirement.

Pudongxin District, Shanghai, China

Work in a representative office of a French company (brand MOA) in fashion accessories field which have 250 sales point in France and other countries of Europe. Cooperate with MOA buying team in France to handle shoes in Shanghai office.Take full responsibility from sourcing material and shoe factories, negotiate prices/MOQ/production LT, follow up orders and monitor the production process to ensure the delivery time. Need to arrange QC inspection, cooperate with shipping dept. for shipment issue and deal with claims from customer.

Changning District, Shanghai, China

Worked in a Panamanian company which is a wholesaler and intermediary in South America, successfully developed various vendors. Take charge of various items such as footwear (sandals, flip flops, ballerinas, safety boots), accessories (socks, belts, caps, bags, scarf, handkerchief, towel and sheets), camping (tents, beach umbrella, gazebo and beach chairs), lamps, toys, personal cares, crafts, ceramics, machinery (foam machine, braiding machine), small vehicles (motorcycles, hand trucks, helmets) Take full responsibility from source products, evaluate factories, negotiate prices/quantity/delivery time/payment term with vendors, monitor production, arrange QC inspection, shipping and deal with customer claims.

Ningbo City, Zhejiang, China

Worked for an American Company who supplies products to Target, Wal-Mart, and Tesco for two years, In the second year had in charge of a new sourcing team of responsibility for Target dollar plus items and Tesco items. Sourcing commodities (such as Shoes, bags, Stationery, Textile, Sport items, Toys, Cosmetic Items, Glasses, Ceramics, kitchenware, small electronic items etc.). Negotiate prices and make detailed quotation sheets. Preparing samples in different phases (such as prototype samples, bin samples, PP samples, testing samples and final samples). Cooperate with QC dept. and HK colleagues to deal with the sample testing issue and factory audit. Cooperate with order expediter to monitor production and ensure the deliveries.

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