Founded in 2017, RPG Commerce is a leading direct-to-consumer (DTC) omnichannel company dedicated to building cutting-edge everyday essentials. With an in-house portfolio of home and living products, RPG currently carries in-house brands, including Montigo, OiYO and Cosmic Cookware.
Recently securing a Series B funding round of RM127 million, RPG Commerce has over 100 employees in KL, Singapore and Philippines who work everyday to develop, design and produce high-quality products all over the world. To find out more, please visit https://www.rpg.ventures/.
About The Job
The Trade Procurement Executive will support the procurement and supply chain functions by sourcing suppliers, managing purchase orders, coordinating logistics, and handling quality control processes. This role is essential in ensuring the smooth operation of procurement activities and maintaining effective communication with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve any issues related to production, logistics, or quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage trade procurement with local stakeholders to handle and support sourcing projects.
- Lead and execute individual sourcing projects including sourcing strategy development, run the bid/quotation process, award recommendations, review and negotiation, purchase order issuance and contract execution in coordination with legal.
- Initialize rate cards to bring efficiency to the sourcing, benchmarking & negotiation process.
- Leads the supplier review with inputs from the planning and logistics team for operational and cost efficiencies.
- Build, maintain, and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications.
- Ensure that a professional and consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships.
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues.
- Escalation points for any operational issues that the planning team is unable to resolve.
- Provide oversight over various contract management processes and ensure transparency.
- Negotiate within the terms and conditions of the contract, solutions to conflicts/problems arising in case of poor performance or non-compliance with contractual obligations and convene meetings with contractors to allow ample opportunity for the identification and early resolution of potential disputes.
Key Skills & Competencies:
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Effective communication and negotiation skills.
- Attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and quality.
- Problem-solving abilities to handle supplier and logistics issues.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).
- Basic understanding of procurement and supply chain processes.
- Fluent in Mandarin in both written and speech is an advantage as you will be dealing with China counterparts.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
- 1-2 years of experience in procurement, purchasing, or supply chain management is preferred
- Strong communicator and fluent in Mandarin in both written and speech is an advantage.
- May be willing for business trips in China and other parts
- Has experience with sourcing and negotiation
- A good team player and eager to learn
