Supplier Acquisition Associate

The Opportunity

At Wholesome Food People Pte Ltd, we work tirelessly with our partners who are crucial in providing the supply chain reliability and efficiencies in our business and in providing a wide and diverse product range for our customers. We believe that the Supplier Acquisition team is at the forefront of our growth charge We are looking for someone who thrives on hustling and working with various small teams on a daily basis, and enjoy interacting and building strong relationships internally and externally. If you are humble and interested to help build a company culture that puts people first, read on for a career opportunity.

What You’ll Learn
- **Drive, plan and control portfolio **_(Role related) _**
- You’ll work closely with internal and external partners to implement portfolio growth, adjustments and management.
- You’ll make recommendations to key stakeholders and management
- You’ll solve daily issues and forecast larger aims to be achieved
- **Grow as leader and innovator **_(Personal growth) _**
- You’ll develop brilliant communication and interpersonal skills, working with a spectrum of partners and colleagues
- You’ll gain excellent time management and learn to prioritise and delegate effectively
- **Develop passion for people and processes **_(Industry related) _**
- With our company, you’ll get to lead, coach, inspire, and support your partners and colleagues towards best practices

**Job Description**:

- **Plan, execute and monitor partner acquisition plan and SOP**
- Research and onboard potential new supplier partners
- Negotiate and strive for win-win partnerships that value add to each other’s businesses
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for supplier acquisition
- Troubleshoot operations issues and solve them
- Manage staff and external service providers to ensure seamless service to our customers.
- **Build and track daily operations metrics and dashboards**
- Ensure fulfilment of key performance indicators of onboarding targets and roadmap
- Oversee supplier inventory, facilities, as well as distribution of goods and services
- Forecast inventory requirements, sales velocity, stock expiry.
- Optimize working capital efficiency together with operations and fulfilment teams
- **Find ways to improve the efficiency of processes**
- Research new technologies and alternative methods of efficiency
- Develop practical solutions for growth of client satisfaction with service delivery and ensure smooth running of internal operations
- Manage budgets and costs effectively

**Requirements**:
**Experience**
- Degree/Diploma in Business or Finance or Accounting or Operations or any related discipline
- 0 - 5 years of experience in operations at a startup/corporate environment

**Skills Required**:

- Proficient in project management and cloud inventory systems
- Expertise in resource planning and operating systems
- Strong analytical skills and understanding of workflow management
- Experience in responding to complaints and maintaining safety standards
- Experience in project planning, scheduling and recovery support

**What we’re looking for in you**:

- Systematic and organized
- Tenacious on deadlines and punctuality
- Ability to innovate, inspire and introduce change
- Ability to see the big picture as well as the finer details
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
- Results oriented personality who thrives working in a dynamic environment
- Strong work ethic, and desire to achieve excellence
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast pace environment
- Highly detail-oriented and meticulous