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