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Purchasing Agent

Building Team Solutions
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
DirectHire

Title: Senior Purchasing Agent ( who is conversational Mandarin Chinese language efficient) 


Scope: (Commander’s Intent)

Manage inventory, procurement, logistics, and fulfillment to enable revenue growth for a small technology based company.  This position will require knowledge on how to manage inventory, oversee procurement from overseas contractors, coordinate deliveries of material, and manage fulfillment/warehousing contractors. You will need to be detail oriented, analytical, organized, and flexible.


Activities:

Inventory: 

  • Coordinate inventory tracking in the US and China as well as in Amazon FBA
  • Manage and improve current process for inventory predictive analysis
  • Manage Odoo ERP system for procurement, inventory, and fulfillment
  • Leverage spreadsheet based predictive models to create inventory plans


Procurement:

  • Manage and build relationships with suppliers 
  • Track and facilitate procurement of inventory
  • Balance inventory plans with cash flow budget to optimize inventory levels (keeping products in stock and not overstocking)
  • Participate in sourcing, evaluation and fabrication of new products 


Logistics:

  • Optimize our import and logistics costs and fees to deliver products from manufacturing facility to customers
  • Manage in-house fulfillment and warehousing team
  • Organize product packaging and documentation to ensure products shipped to the US will be fulfillment ready 


Required Experience:

  • 3-5 years experience in logistics or fulfillment
  • Expertise with spreadsheet, Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel
  • Odoo or other ERP Management Preferred
  • Mandarin Chinese Lanuage (Conversational) – Willing to sponsor visas
  • Subcontractor management


Preferred Experience:

  • E-commerce fulfillment and logistic


Key Success Characterisitics:

  • Organzied and detail oriented
  • Perform processes with precision


Compensation:

  • Comensurate with experience and expertise – 5-7 year experienced professional - 75,000
  • Benefits include full health, vision, dental and life, 401k with matching, work from home options, and generous time off policy
75000.00

Qualifications

  • 3-5 yrs in Fullfillment Logistics
  • Mandarin Chinese - Conversational