阿里巴巴LAZADA-Sourcing Manager-LazMall Retail Operations-Philippines
任职要求
The ideal candidate is a driven self-starter with a solution-oriented mindset, a strong sense of ownership and the ambition to shape the role within our experienced Retail team. To thrive in cross-functional environments, comfortable navigating ambiguity and unafraid to roll up sleeves to make things happen are the must-haves. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or related field • Minimum 5 years’ experience in sourcing, procurement or vendor management, preferably in Retail, FMCG or e-commerce; prior experience managing a small team of 2- 3 people is a plus • Strong supplier management skills with proven ability to solve operational issues and secure favorable terms as well as reliable supply • Hands-on experience in managing supplier performance, procurement operations and troubleshooting supply issues • Solid understanding of logistics and warehouse processes, with the ability to translate business needs into operational execution • Analytical mindset, with strong proficiency in Excel (SQL knowledge a plus) • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence across diverse teams • Agile, adaptable and capable of thriving in dynamic, high-growth environment What Success Looks Like: In the first 3-6 months, the successful candidate will: • Strengthen our supplier partnerships, achieving high fill rates, on-time deliveries, and reduced stock aging • Build trust-based relationships with commercial, logistics and supplier stakeholders, becoming the go-to partner for sourcing and supply continuity • Improve our procurement lead times and supplier SLA performance • Deliver measurable improvements in reverse logistics, reducing scrap and minimizing obsolescence
工作职责
This role will be at the heart of building and sustaining a reliable supply base that fuels our Retail growth. It goes beyond procurement operations, it will shape how sourcing enables commercial success, ensures stock availability and strengthens our competitive advantage in one of the world’s fastest-moving e-commerce markets. It will play a central role across five key pillars, a high-impact role that blends procurement, operations and cross-functional collaboration, offering a unique opportunity to transform sourcing from a back-office function into a strategic driver of growth and profitability. As part of an agile, AI-powered Retail organization, it will collaborate with brilliant minds across commercial, logistics, and operations teams to solve sourcing challenges, optimize efficiency, and deliver impact at scale. Key Pillars of the Role • Seamless Stock Journey Lead the end-to-end procurement process from purchase orders to inbound, storage and outbound fulfillment. Secure stock availability by monitoring purchasing flows, resolving procurement bottlenecks and ensuring smooth [Ready to Ship] status. Drive reverse logistics activities, including [return to suppliers, scrap/write-off and re-inbound], to minimize obsolescence and reduce fulfillment costs. • Unlocking Commercial Success through Supply Chain Expertise Support commercial strategy and ad-hoc initiatives by collaborating with logistic operations to enhance revenue and improve P&L performance while ensuring operations efficiencies. Manage return to suppliers and scrap processes (reverse logistics) to reduce fulfillment cost and minimize stock obsoletion. Act as an advisor to commercial in negotiating contractual terms related to supply chain and procurement. • Cross-Functional Supply Chain & Stakeholder Alignment Partner with logistics and warehouse teams to ensure smooth end-to-end procurement and fulfillment. Represent the Retail team with suppliers, commercial, and other stakeholders to align operations with business goals and enable win-win sourcing solutions. Share best practices and insights with our regional team to drive consistent supply chain excellence across markets. • Local Capability Building Share best practices to enhance the knowledge of local sourcing teams, while mentoring colleagues to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent execution. Apply your knowledge of sourcing, procurement, and supply chain practices to help local teams perform effectively. • Ad-Hoc Project Driver Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects that drive measurable value, whether by supporting Retail initiatives beyond your core responsibilities, enhancing user experience or identifying performance improvement opportunities. Our progressive Retail team culture encourages every member to take on strategic projects as a way to learn, add value and deliver impact in varied and meaningful ways across our Business Unit.
- Creation of category vendor management and sourcing strategy for one or more categories - Drive continuous cost optimization - Conduct supplier management - Partner with the cross functional teams for first class product development - Identify defects and develop scalable processes/tech solutions to address and accelerate our Private Label business. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve tools and productivity.
1. Manage the Social Responsibility (SR) audit workflow ensuring all active suppliers under Softlines Private Brands (SPB) are qualified for production. Resolve open issues with suppliers, escalate egregious issues to the business owners, and invent mechanisms to improve efficiency of our SR audits. 2. Vet, track, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures for day to day SR execution (audit scheduling and management, corrective action planning and remediation), including simplifying processes and eliminating process gaps (e.g., mismatched supplier data between Private Brands and Social Responsibility systems). 3. Identify potential SR risks with global suppliers from historical audit results and the consolidated SR performance scoring system. Work with central Amazon SR team to implement supplier engagement programs with selected SPB sites and track the SR performance improvement to evaluate program effectiveness. 4. Build, run, and maintain connection mechanisms with sourcing managers, APB Sustainability, and Amazon Social Responsibility team.
• Identify and onboard supplier partners capable of producing high quality products for Amazon Private Brands. This includes understanding business development and product development needs, analyzing existing supplier capability opportunities and gaps, conducting global supplier landscape analyses, know tariff implications, based on industrial insights and global supply chain expansion trends. • Exploration and Implementation of Gen AI solutions to automate supplier selection process. This includes learning the end-to-end sourcing process from supplier identification to the product development cycle, translating the supplier selection criteria and framework into an organized data flow, exploring Gen AI solutions and automation solutions with APB tech team to automate the supplier selection process from lead identification, pre-screening, supplier outreach, supplier profile collection and initial evaluation to qualifying the supplier. • Lead the new vendor onboarding (NVO) process to qualify and onboard new suppliers into WW Amazon supplier pool. This includes following a standardized process to pitch and qualify the new suppliers with a due diligence check, Social Responsibility and Factory Quality audits, supporting them to get familiar with Amazon Private Brands’ product development and management systems and mechanisms.
• Identify and onboard supplier partners capable of producing high quality products for Amazon Private Brands. This includes understanding business development and product development needs, analyzing existing supplier capability opportunities and gaps, conducting global supplier landscape analyses, know tariff implications, based on industrial insights and global supply chain expansion trends. • Exploration and Implementation of Gen AI solutions to automate supplier selection process. This includes learning the end-to-end sourcing process from supplier identification to the product development cycle, translating the supplier selection criteria and framework into an organized data flow, exploring Gen AI solutions and automation solutions with APB tech team to automate the supplier selection process from lead identification, pre-screening, supplier outreach, supplier profile collection and initial evaluation to qualifying the supplier. • Lead the new vendor onboarding (NVO) process to qualify and onboard new suppliers into WW Amazon supplier pool. This includes following a standardized process to pitch and qualify the new suppliers with a due diligence check, Social Responsibility and Factory Quality audits, supporting them to get familiar with Amazon Private Brands’ product development and management systems and mechanisms.