Sourcing Assistant Job Description

Sourcing Assistant Job Description

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Sourcing assistant provides general administrative support via MSOffice (Word, Excel, Teams, & Outlook);.

Sourcing Assistant Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Supports factory lab in their daily work regarding testing, testing schedules and A-01 related items
Supports, analysis of all kind of lab test reports (within or outside PDM
Ensures all products are developed and commercialized in accordance with design and specification requirements as detailed by headquarters while maintaining an emphasis on performance and integrity
Ensure developed product is fully evaluated and commercialization (without promising the integrity of the developed prototype) in preparation for mass production
Supports the Dev / Com Manager in working with manufacturers and suppliers in continuous upgrades of technical applications and processes based on specifications and headquarter directions
Communicate information to the commercialization team in headquarters for process and equipment upgrades
Continually drive planning process improvement
Works with Global Planning, factories and SCS/SCI to continually improve order information and react to changing demands of the market place
Manage incoming phone calls, messages, and responding to basic requests for information
Manage calendar on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, including all appointments, meeting and conference calls

Sourcing Assistant Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Sourcing Assistant

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Education for Sourcing Assistant

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the sourcing assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Engineering, Education, MBA, Management, Supply Chain Management, Associates, Business/Management, Fashion, Project Management

Skills for Sourcing Assistant

Desired skills for sourcing assistant include:

SAP desirable
Word
Excel and Outlook
Excel and PowerPoint
MSOffice
Textiles and garment production
Costing components that impact product line development
External practices
Fabrication
Product manufacturing techniques

Desired experience for sourcing assistant includes:

Coordinate preparations for meetings, including meeting agendas, memos, and other correspondence
Set up travel arrangements for the Senior Vice President, Vice President and team including flights, hotels, itineraries and visa paper work
Organize and process monthly expense reports for senior team
Manager Review Board paperwork and binders
Organize and maintain Seasonal binders, Finance book, Budget book, meeting documents and agendas
Track samples and product in order to maintain a clean office environment

Sourcing Assistant Examples

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Sourcing Assistant Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a sourcing assistant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sourcing assistant
  • Closely follow critical path planners and Follow up deliveries with vendors (owning time and action from vendors weekly production status report with clear reasons of delays/eventual delays) & check against production/floorset report to prepare for any flagging needed to supervisor
  • To act as a liaison between vendor and QA, in order to properly follow critical path, with regards to all QA issues
  • Responsible for raising letters of credit, where required, prior to approval by Manager/Supervisor, checking prices on the letter of credit once goods are shipped, this includes also liaising with AP on blocked invoices
  • Also deal with any price file queries from finance
  • The Assistant Sourcing Manager will assist the Sourcing Manager to strategize order placement for each seasonal line, ex
  • Deal with any price file queries from finance
  • Follow up with Prod
  • To act as the main point of contact for the suppliers on a day-to-day basis, ensuring suppliers are kept up to date with regards to key dates
  • Works closely with functional areas in HQ, communicates & ensures all departments and functional areas collaborate together to achieve adidas overall objectives
  • Responsible for raising letters of credit, where required, prior to approval by Manager/Supervisor, checking prices on LOC once goods are shipped
Qualifications for sourcing assistant
  • Excellent relationship management skills, the ability to work collaboratively with senior management
  • Must be able to manage multiple projects concurrently, meet deadlines and deliver accurate results while staying professional and positive
  • Play a lead role in representing LO/factory to Global Project Leaders/System Champions on planning systems and projects (ESC, DPOC, FCA, Split PO, ) from initial planning to rollout
  • Good knowledge of Accessories & Gear products
  • Good communication skill in English (verbal and writing
  • Prod or dev/comm background
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of sourcing assistant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sourcing assistant
  • Execute the recommended sourcing strategy using priority sourcing channels, conducts initial phone screens, maintains candidate information in Candidate Management System
  • Use professional networking sites, generate market intelligence, competitive mapping across Professional Services / Fortune 500 companies
  • Be a brand ambassador of the firm when interacting with external talent workforce
  • Maintains vendor relationships to ensure key partnerships for future growth
  • Work with Enterprise Inventory Planning as assigned to monitor and resolve issues related to purchase orders capacity and delivery challenges
  • Serves as the primary sourcing lead for the Pharmacy Services Group and other HealthTrust functional areas related to developing and delivering outcomes that align favorably with the objectives assigned to the strategic sourcing functions of Pharmacy Services
  • Meet or exceed contracting goals established in annual Pharmacy Work Plan
  • Establishes relevant, quantifiable key performance indicators for the Pharmacy Strategic Sourcing team and monitor as required, making adjustments, corrections, refinements to team objectives, strategies and/or processes such that these metrics are attained and maintained within defined acceptable ranges
  • Leads and oversees efforts to define and develop the people, processes, competencies, technology and other resource requirements necessary to effectively support on an ongoing basis the team’s core functional areas of contract strategy development, negotiations, execution, and management
  • Assists the VP in effectively managing team budget expenses according to assigned annual HealthTrust budgetary objectives
Qualifications for sourcing assistant
  • Key recruiting skills involving, candidate identification, qualification and using application tracking systems
  • Strong consultative qualities and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate across all levels of the firm with external Talent Market
  • Hands on Research, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills
  • Adherence to sourcing processes, guidelines, defined SLA, consistency, performance targets and delivery timelines
  • Ability to Identify candidates for respective industry/service lines, pre-screen candidates and propose candidates to the Recruiter/ Business
  • 3-5 years of related experience in Intimates sourcing, product development and/or production
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Sourcing Assistant Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sourcing assistant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sourcing assistant
  • Assist with identifying and developing new sourcing opportunities, both domestic and international
  • Maintain positive working relationships with existing vendor base
  • Research and understand vendor performance and metric reporting
  • Research and understand vendor capabilities, the supply market, and market trends
  • Provide large data pulls and reporting from Business Objects
  • Assist with formatting and finishing key reports
  • Maintaining production on order tools
  • Providing communication and support to vendors daily
  • Working closely with production managers to monitor schedule and delivery
  • Working with Production Coordinator to execute RMS system
Qualifications for sourcing assistant
  • At least 5 years of overall work experience within Talent Acquisition, with a minimum of 3 recent years supporting US Recruitment
  • Bachelor’s Degree (or 4 years of equivalent work experience) is required, preferably in International Business, Marketing, Economics, or similar
  • Intermediate ability to enforce quality standards, and identify issues and defects
  • At least a 4 year degree in Business or related field
  • Working knowledge and experience with conducting bid processes (RFI, RFP and informal bids)
  • Bachelor’s degree or applicable retail experience
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Sourcing Assistant Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a sourcing assistant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sourcing assistant
  • Following up on all submits or design samples and communicating comments to overseas offices/agents
  • Maintaining vendor relationships to ensure key partnerships for future growth
  • Use systems such as AG12 and FSO1 to pull off information on brands, suppliers, factories
  • Acting as the main point of contact for the suppliers on a day-to-day basis, ensuring suppliers are kept up to date with regards to key dates
  • Assist for issuing purchase order (P/O),sales order (S/O) and purchase
  • Interact with the suppliers and the customers
  • Ensure that any invoices are send to accounts for payment
  • Filling and prepare data entry and documents for all reports
  • Sending survey,collect and analyze data used to improve suppliers and procurement organization practices/processes
  • Providing the necessary support to the team members in relation to sourcing decision,supplier negotiation,and
Qualifications for sourcing assistant
  • Prior experience negotiating with top-tier labor and non-labor technology vendors, , IBM and SAP
  • Retail or merchandising experience preferred
  • CIPS or equivalent (or working towards)
  • Responsible for providing administrative and clerical services in order to ensure effective and efficient Category Management
  • Responsible for the general Industrial Facilities and is the team’s expert in methods and tasks efficiencies
  • Appropriate qualification (Matric) or equivalent competent experience
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sourcing assistant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sourcing assistant
  • Directs impact analysis for major GPO pricing changes
  • Monitors rebate payments ensures missing data is received by drug manufacturers to support maximized rebates
  • Works with Behavioral Health (BH) DoPs and BH Pharmacy Management Company towards same mission and goals as pertaining to acute care
  • Reconciles orders
  • Follow up the daily bonded Warehouse entry&exit reports
  • E-invoice ( print e-invoices from e-invoice database & approve from system
  • Keeping overview and prioritizing of tasks to be performed by Sourcing management
  • Track calendar availability and schedule meetings as requests arrive
  • Respond simple enquiries to keep up the speed
  • Mastering of the respective sourcing committees invitations and notes
Qualifications for sourcing assistant
  • A Secretarial Diploma and accreditation in various business desktop software applications
  • Female or Male , Age not over 30 years
  • 1-2 years of working experiences in administrator of purchasing or procurement function
  • Having knowledge / skills in procurement or purchasing is preferred
  • Exposure to fabric development
  • Sound knowledge of "preferred drug" specification and protocol development to support such

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