EM Planner/buyer

Role Purpose

• Responsible for developing and communicating demand requirements for external manufacturers (EMs), for authorizing them to execute a build plan in support of Business requirements.
• Develop capacity plans and manage inventory & purchasing strategies to ensure optimum material utilization.
• Build up and manage the Sales and Operating Plan (S&OP) process with EMs if necessary.
• Manage forwarder and Distribution Center for better performance.
• Manage and follow up new projects in APAC for better execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Support S&OP process by analyzing demand, supply, capacity and inventory data to make capacity recommendations and identify risks and gaps for external manufactured products.
• Monitor external manufacturing production and support capacity analysis of external manufacturer, collaborate with engineering as needed.
• Release purchasing requisition in SAP and manage its PO.
• Communicate effectively with external manufacturers to establish production and delivery requirements and schedules.
• Coordinate schedules with customer service, suppliers, receiving, external manufacturing, and shipping team to ensure customer’s requirements are met.
• Provide lead time quotations for new orders and make sales order commitments; provide response for past due shipments.
• Review and manage external manufacturer’s commitments and order promise dates; conduct periodic ‘open order status’ review meetings.
• Assist in developing and executing inventory strategies for consignment material and finished goods; analyze excess and obsolete component inventory provided by external manufacturer.
• Responsible for prioritizing returned defect material rework and managing returned defect material inventory, including identifying at-risk shippable stock for containment.
• Coordinate with EMs and forwarder on shipping booking, coordinate with broker for customs clearance document collection.
• Collect the invoice from EMs and service provider, check and apply for the payment.
• Requisition product and place firm orders on external manufacturer and 3rd party vendors.
• Purchase MRO items
• Maintain SOX compliance for inventory management and planning.
• Follow up and maintaining Key metrics, performance, report based on collected data.
• Comply with international trade regulations, as directed by GSM.
• Continual improvement on the EMs’ performance by initiating good ideas.
• Planning, sourcing and operation support for the new projects for APAC EM team
• Hyper-care for tariffs happened in US, help to collect the right documents for Customs Clearance, introducing our flow to EMs, understand what happened and address the issue until implementation of solutions.

Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, computer science, Japanese, purchasing management or relevant field of study, MBA is preferred.
• At least 2 years’ experience at planning, demand planning and project management is a plus.
• Sourcing experience is a plus.
• Working in MNC is a plus.
• Fluent English speaking/writing is a must, good Japanese speaking is a plus.
• Good project management skill.
• Impeccable attention to detail, passion for processes improvement, systems and data handling
• Working experience in ERP system, SAP or other systems.
• High sense of responsibility and initiatives, self-motivated, good team player and the ability to work with a wide cross-section of people in various locations.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high-energy environment
• Flexibility to work across multiply time-zone in multiple languages, flexibility to balance the working time between US calendar and Chinese calendar.
• Good communication and negotiation skill.
• Good understanding of culture different between different countries.

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically