Job Description

• Communicate purchasing policies and requisition procedures to all requesters in the designated area of responsibility.
• Establish and maintain rapport and business association with suppliers. Obtain vendor technical and operating expertise as required to support company design and manufacturing personnel.
• Evaluate quoted prices by price and/or cost analysis and prepare a formal and comparative bid abstract.
• Administer purchase orders after award and negotiate changes that may develop prior to completion.  Resolve promptly any problems which might occur so as to ensure timely delivery of the item with the quality specified. 

• Resolve shortages, rejected parts and any situations wherein supplier invoices or discount action is at variance with order conditions.
• Recommended and implement systems and procedures which reduce inventory and lead-time, increase purchasing efficiency and reduce cost.

• Frequent interdepartmental interaction to assist personnel in projects that will result in purchases or cost reductions and/or to take part in interdepartmental program implementations and provide liaison relative to items on order or items to be ordered.
• Frequent communication with vendors in Asia.  Conference call often scheduled  in early morning or late night to cope with time zone difference.

• Fluent in MS Office, specifically Excel  where heavy use of metrics reporting will be required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. 
• Ability to speak and understand Mandarin/Chinese.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

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