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BASIC PURPOSE: Purchasing & Logistics Coordinator acts as the primary contact window with partnership factories, and is responsible for the timely placement of purchase orders and delivery of outsourced products to meet customer order requirements as well as maintain approved stock inventory levels. Purchasing & Logistics Coordinator needs to ensure the cost competitive, and also works within and provides support to the Product Line for new product launch and market information sharing. DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES (End Results Expected): Generate and submit purchase orders in accordance with the company policies and procedures. Confirm all orders and the subsequent delivery, this includes reconciling the shipments, manifests, short- and back-stocked orders and damaged items. Timely response to worldwide expedite requests, including pull-in, push-out & cancellation. Monitor demand & supply, and develop planning/scheduling strategy. Secure the competitive price without jeopardizing quality. Implement cost reduction programs with strategic partnership factories. Negotiate favorable terms and long term contracts (PLA) with partnership factories. Manage partnership relationship. Coordinate with QA department to resolve quality and claim issues with partnership factories. Support Product Line Manager, AE & HQs as necessary to drive new product launch. Coordinate with QA, Engineering, partnership factories and Product Line Manager for ECN/EOL activity. Resolve shipment & invoicing issues with partnership factories, warehouse and Accounts Payable.
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Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore account for 642 of the open purchasing roles on WorkMundi. If you're looking in those regions, you have real volume to work with. The US has 130 open positions. Check where your target employers are hiring before you apply.
About 59% of purchasing ads are written in English on our board. That's a useful signal: it tells you which postings to prioritize if English is your working language, but it says nothing about whether the job itself requires you to speak it. Read the full job description.
When you interview for purchasing, expect to explain how you've managed a vendor relationship that went wrong. Hiring managers want to hear a concrete example: which vendor, what broke down, and what you did to fix it or end it. They're testing whether you can handle conflict without burning bridges.
The employers posting most are Private Advertiser (43 jobs), Veterans Health Administration (16), zffriedric (11), and avnet (10). These names tell you where volume hiring is happening—worth researching their interview style and culture before you apply.