Primary Responsibilities:

1. Strategy Development: Build up strategic purchasing deployment plan for BOM purchasing and lead the team to achieve the target and annual operating plan.

2. Team Management: Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of purchasing professionals to achieve departmental and organizational targets. Develops, communicates, and enforces company policies and procedures for purchasing. Reviews and approves purchases up to a specified dollar amount

3. Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains within the purchasing team operations

4. Vendor Management: Establish and maintain strong relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Controlling and monitoring of supplier performance and delivery reliability to the production line.

5. Risk Management: Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies to minimize supply chain disruptions and ensure business continuity

6. Inventory Management: Oversee inventory planning, forecasting, and optimization to minimize stock outs while maximizing inventory turnover and continuously improving with new tools and sourcing processes.

7. Logistics Optimization: Implement strategies to optimize transportation, warehousing, and distribution processes to reduce costs and improve delivery timelines.

8. Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, not only Supply Chain departments, but also Production, R&D, Quality and Sales to align supply chain activities with overall business objectives.

9. Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and company policies in all purchasing chain activities.

10. Budget planning: for long-term and short-term business development

11. Be involved in production planning, material costing and customer coverage