Yujie Chen (Mcips) Email & Phone Number

Hinckley, England, United Kingdom

• Spearheaded strategic sourcing initiatives for chassis components, ensuring alignment with the company’s quality and cost objectives.
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with suppliers, ensuring the procurement of high-quality materials and components within budget constraints.
• Collaborated closely with design, quality control (QC), manufacturing, and product placement teams to ensure seamless integration of sourcing strategies with overall project timelines and goals.
• Led negotiations with suppliers to secure cost-effective agreements while maintaining high standards of quality and delivery performance.
• Identified and implemented cost-saving opportunities through Value Engineering (VE) initiatives, achieving significant reductions in procurement costs without compromising on quality.
• Worked on non-chassis projects from negotiation through to final order.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Highlights: Steer optimum management for several critical tasks while performing with supply chain, engineering, and production team and delivering support with DFMs, overcoming challenges, and negotiating with.
• Identified potential suppliers, approved SSA and launched RFQ to accomplish material and parts cost targets for new P&A products.
• Accomplished 20% cost savings and reduced total lead time by 28 days via integration and optimization of the supply chain for bike baskets.
• Provided exceptional customer service by ensuring 100% timely delivery from suppliers.Identified potential suppliers, approved SSA, and launched RFQ to accomplish material and parts cost targets for new P&A products.
• Provided exceptional customer service by ensuring 100% timely delivery from suppliers.

Cheddar

• Plan and manage production activities and delivery to ensure this is within required timescale and costs.
• Liaises with sales division and forecast team to ensure production forecasts are updated on a week-by-week basis and meet the requirements of the business.
• Work with Product Development and Marketing to ensure new production processes are prepared and implemented on schedule and to defined quality standards.

Cheddar, UK

• Maintain a good pipeline of available stock to reduce short term expediting needs.
• Control product spend and departures within budget.
• Forecast forward product requirement.
• Undertake any other ad-hoc project as supply manager required.
• Drive continuous improvement in the use of AGR system.
• Work with Demand and Forecasting team to identify ways of reducing inventory days and stocks outs.

Cheddar, UK

• Managed key supplier accounts.
• Achieved maximum product availability whilst maintaining stock value targets and control of cash flow.
• Built effective relationship with all my external suppliers to ensure that proposed change to the purchase plans are implemented.
• Provided excellent internal customer service.
• Undertook any other ad-hoc issues as required by supply manager.

Weston Super Mare, UK

• Processed the day-to-day financial transactions, such as invoicing, payments, banking and petty cash.
• Assisted supervisor in collecting the accounting vouchers and doing the bookkeeping.
• Gained experience in VAT (Value Added Tax) calculation and processes of VAT claim.
• Developed commercial awareness and understanding of working in a professional business environment.

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

• Enhanced my data analytical skill and able to use financial software such as Kingdee by participating in TMF group global business training program.
• Gained a good understanding of general audit via close communication and interaction with company auditors.
• Improved greatly on various key business skills such as formal presentation and write business letter and email.

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

• Acquired knowledge of the general processes of the public business and the bank accounting system.
• Hands on experience on banking transaction such as counter services.
• Greatly enhanced my explanation and interpersonal skills through direct customer interactions.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Accounting,Finance And Management

Activities and Societies: Volunteer of University of Bristol Students' Union

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Accounting And Finance, 2.1

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