Senior Merchandiser – Bulk Jobs at MAS Holdings in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Job Overview

Senior Merchandiser – Bulk

We are on the lookout for a dynamic and an energetic individual to join the Marketing team as a Senior Merchandiser – Bulk. This role requires to confirm a smooth flow of functions within the unit by ensuring continuous availability of raw material to facilitate planned production process and optimum capacity utilization to meet customer requirements with minimum write-offs thereby supporting the achievement of overall business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with the Merchandisers to follow up and ensure timely completion of all key activities predetermine in the customer calendar and prepare detailed plans in regards to the subsequent activities with internal teams to fulfil the customer expectation by the required delivery date.
• Take responsibility for effective inventory management of raw material, attend to timely payments to suppliers and avail up to date information on all related matters for efficient decision making process with minimize write-offs.
• Ensure availability of adequate raw material stock, manage inventory, provide accurate, timely & complete data on procurement and follow up on all payments to suppliers.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers whilst demonstrating ability to effectively negotiate the best price to ensure procurement of raw material is delivered to the required quality and quantity, at the most competitive terms in a timely manner.
• Diligently follow up and ensure timely and accurate raw material availability by administrating and executing the related activities to meet production plans and customer expectations within the stipulated timeframe.
• Oversee and ensure costing, cost re-engineering, BOM (Bill of Material), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and salesforce updates are completed in a timely and accurate manner whilst ensuring internal earning aspirations are met to support the achievement of set objectives.
• Proactively seek to follow up on key activities and take initiatives to resolve current and unforeseen issues, whilst implementing an accurate and detailed time & action and regularly updating/ sharing relevant information with respective stakeholders.
• Act as the key point of contact in addressing all escalated production related issues, by demonstrating dept and breadth of knowledge, understanding of customer expectations and ability to connect with the right technical personnel in a timely manner to minimize the loss.
• Support the team in consolidating and managing raw material arrivals in line with planned requirements / manage and analyses stock levels (Dummy and Liability stock) to meet factory service requirements with the proper maintenance and monitoring of write-offs and liabilities across the account.
• Assist the team with the shipping arrangements and act as a guide to ensure that all related documentation is in adherence to specific requirements and are completed in a timely manner.
• Participate/ take lead in the supplier evaluation process, obtain and analyse relevant information so as to identify and evaluate suppliers on performance in order to ensure suppliers maintain the highest quality of service and support the team to achieve the delivery timeframes and set objectives.
• Drive and identify new projects/ initiatives for the unit whilst working in collaboration team to delivery on set project initiatives in order to ensure continuous performance agility and excellence among the unit and organization as a whole.

Qualifications and Experience

• A Degree from a recognized university in Marketing /Business Administration or relevant field
• 2 – 3 years of relevant work experience in similar capacity.
• Knowledge on SAP and PLM.
• Excellent customer relationship management skills.

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