Job Description
Job Title: Logistics Procurement Manager - Americas
Location: Los Angeles, CA or NY/NJ area
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must have professional and conversational Mandarin skill.
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop Americas Region logistics procurement and project-based resource procurement plans based on company business needs.
- Liaise with 2C last-mile service providers (express and postal services) and local road transportation company (FTL/LTL/Groupage) to obtain advantageous resources, coordinate with business teams, and ensure the rational use of resources. Additionally, conduct temporary capacity procurement as needed and ensure effective implementation of requirements.
- Continuously optimize the existing pool of intercontinental capacity suppliers, regularly negotiate prices, manage contracts, and assess supplier performance, systematically manage suppliers, and continuously reduce capacity costs.
- Introduce high-quality capacity resources, enhance the reserve of intercontinental capacity resources, negotiate contracts with newly introduced suppliers and control risks to ensure competitive pricing and terms.
- Responsible for analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of various 2C last-mile service providers and trucking service providers in the intercontinental region, managing the supplier pool, and conducting assessments.
- Develop procurement management systems, workflows, and assessment standards according to company management requirements, and supervise the implementation of these systems on-site to ensure business compliance.
- Collaborate with internal teams (such as product, operations, and sales) to help drive the implementation of production capacity and optimize existing resources based on operational quality.
- Keep abreast of market conditions for capacity, collect and share market pricing trends within the team, adjust and upgrade internal resource strategies based on market trends, and reduce capacity costs through innovative models to ensure business competitiveness.
Job Requirements:
- 4-7+ years of experience in international logistics - prefer 3PL and eCommerce background.
- Candidates with experience in capacity procurement team management, 2C last-mile service provider resources, and trucking resources are preferred, with e-commerce logistics and warehousing experience being even more advantageous.
- Extensive experience in supplier procurement, management, and assessment, excellent business negotiation skills and coordination abilities, and a clear understanding of market capacity conditions and pricing structures.
- Must be able to speak English and Chinese.
- Successful project management experience, the ability to undertake project-based work independently, and good organizational coordination skills and team spirit.
- High integrity and pragmatic, able to endure hardship, strong stress resistance, and possess strong rapid learning abilities and the capability to independently solve emergency issues.
- Proficient in using office software and basic data analysis software.
- Seniority Level
- Associate
- Industry
- Warehousing and Storage
- Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
- Employment Type
- Full-time
- Job Functions
- Purchasing
- Product Management
- Skills
- N
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Local area,