Procurement Category Buyer

About the role

Lao Brewery is hiring a Procurement Category Buyer for its head office in Vientiane Capital. The post covers day-to-day procurement operations within company policy and procedures, including sourcing, bidding, negotiation and contract management. The contract is one year and can be extended.

Key responsibilities

• Sourcing products and services according to the initial brief, and preparing bidding documents from user specifications
• Soliciting bids or quotations from vendors through RFQ, RFP or volume forecast, then tabulating bids and comparing prices and samples
• Negotiating the most competitive prices and terms, and preparing sourcing summaries, contracts and agreements
• Approving PRQs delegated by the manager, coordinating branded product sample approvals and maintaining a filing system for purchasing documentation
• Analyse spending and purchase price variance, and prepare the monthly source-to-pay report
• Sourcing and assessing new vendors, supporting vendor performance monitoring and evaluation, and managing savings and pricing
• Ensure deliveries as planned and liaise with shippers, transporters and shipping agencies

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, management or a related field
• At least 3 years of procurement experience covering strategic and tactical procurement and sourcing at local level
• Experience sourcing advertising and promotions and materials and services, including contract negotiations
• Good English; Chinese optional
• High integrity, strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently and in a team