Food & Beverage Sourcing & Purchasing Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the end-to-end process from finding suppliers, ordering, logistics solutions, and high-quality delivery to warehouses.
• Oversee daily ordering and purchasing activity on the fresh food category across all cities.
• Manage stock levels to ensure sufficient stock for daily, weekly, and monthly sales.
• Monitor and secure KPIs on Out-of-stock, Fill rate, Input Cost, and other upcoming metrics.
• Continue to source new suppliers to seek quality and price advantages.
• Negotiate payment terms with suppliers to gain benefit on the cash flow.
• Control suppliers’ on-time delivery to contribute to smooth Operations.
• Conduct market price research to ensure internal price competitiveness.
• Review portfolio performance and come up with suggestions on removing and adding new SKUs.
• Collaborate with Operations to handle issues related to suppliers such as quality, returning, and delivery time.
• Conduct weekly warehouse visits to check real stock status to control out-of-stock, quality & expiration.
• Collaborate with Accounting on contract, debt aspects.
• Formulate supplier strategy to gain bargaining power and stock availability.
• Conduct site visits to evaluate supplier’s facilities and operation capability.
• Source new suppliers and get quotations for the Sales team to pitch to customers.
• Collaborate with the Sales team to prepare stock for running weekly, monthly campaigns.
• Recruit, train, guide, and develop the food team across cities.
• Travel between cities to supervise performance & address prolongedly unsolved problems to meet KPIs.
• Continue to come up with kaizens to enhance business competitive advantages over market competitors.
• Handle other tasks given by the line manager and BOD.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience in Food & Beverage sourcing & purchasing, with a strong background in B2B trading (NOT raw materials/SCM planning for manufacturing).
• Hold at least one managerial role.
• Experience with sourcing fresh food (vegetable, fruit, meat,...).
• Logical thinking, problem-solving, good communication & strong leadership skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in building relationships.
• Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation abilities.
• Proactive, self-motivated, result-focused, and eager to learn new things.
• Fluent English and solid knowledge in the F&B Market.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field is preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

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