ASIA Saigon Foods Ingredients JSC - AFI

Supplier Strategy & Development

- Implement supplier management strategy for Strategic, Key, and New Suppliers in the Food & Nutrition sector, aligned with overall divisional goals.

- Identify growth opportunities with current suppliers and assess the potential of new suppliers relevant to the Food & Nutrition market.

- Contribute to the development and execution of supplier performance scorecards and satisfaction surveys to drive quality and excellence.

 Data and Market Analysis

- Manage supplier performance tracking and segmentation, review service level proposals.

- Supervise competitor benchmarking and market analysis to identify sourcing opportunities.

- Review insights from supplier and market data for business expansion chances.

- Conduct competitor benchmarking, market mapping, and gap analysis to identify new suppliers, products, or technologies. Identify white spots and product gaps for new supplier/product development.

- Maximum the utilization of data sources - e.g. Mintel, Euromonitor.

Stakeholder collaboration

- Lead cross-functional collaboration with internal teams (Commercial, Marketing, QA, Logistics, Finance, Legal) and external partners (suppliers, key accounts) to align and drive strategic initiatives.

- Ensure effective communication and alignment across functions for strategic initiatives with suppliers (new & existing)

 Legal Contract

- Support contract renewals and reviews with Legal and Compliance teams.

- Ensure all assigned suppliers have up-to-date contracts and maintain the contract database for risk monitoring of potential conflicts between new and existing

  Budget Management

- Plan, manage, and evaluate budgets for supplier management / development activities (e.g. events, innovation campaigns, sourcing trips, updating trends, enhancing collaboration with suppliers ), ensuring strategic alignment and ROI.

 Team Development:

- Supervise and coach team members to build a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance culture.

- Propose development and succession plans for direct reports.

- Stay updated with emerging industry trends, technologies, innovations; participate in supplier-related events, conferences, exhibitions/tradeshows, net-working events and

 Others:

Any other responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time by direct manager