Purchasing Manager

Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) ​​

• Ability to work effectively cross functionally, both internally and externally and build relationships
• Indirect Purchasing experience for the areas mentioned above
• Experience handling commercial issues with suppliers and assessing supplier performance
• Proven competence in negotiating skills
• Professional interpersonal verbal and written communication skills in Japanese and English
• Experience using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word. In case of Excel, expected skills are : IF, VLOOKUP, SUM, Pivot table, conditional formatting, chart creation for data analysis.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

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