About this role
Who we are
Take a seat at Freedom, the home of innovation, empowerment, and opportunity. For more than 40 years, we've continued to deliver on our promise: to make beautiful things for the home available to everyone.
Our company is about our people, so honesty, transparency and recognition are at the heart of how we work. Spend your day inspired to grow, through problem-solving, collaboration and hard work. We're design-led, passionate and constantly evolving.
As the Purchasing Officer you will responsible to ensure that Purchase Orders are raised, approved, and modified in a complete, accurate and timely manner.
We want you to be part of our journey, so pull up a chair, and find out what it means to work in our Planning/Purchasing team.
We are looking for a Purchasing Officer to join our team!
What you'll be doing
- Manage orders on behalf of suppliers until the suppliers are trained.
- Become the champion of Colladium, our B2B portal to manage orders, and onboard new suppliers into the system.
- Be a triage point for any supplier related inquiries.
- Provide training to new suppliers on how to maintain our orders in Colladium.
- Ensure supplier KPIs are met.
- Create dispatch advice.
- Review loading plans to ensure they fill container.
- Review and approve invoices for payment.
- Review reports from warehouse team, communicating negative variances to supplier.
- Review and approve shipping marks.
- Manage shipping arrangements to ensure suppliers have made booking with FFs at least three weeks prior to planned shipping date and resolve booking issues collaborating with the Shipping Team.
- Manage cancellations.
Who you are
- Must be fluent in Vietnamese or Chinese/mandarin.
- Strong understanding of Purchasing principles and processes
- Analytical and could solve purchasing and inventory related problems
- Strong data entry skills
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Proactive, highly motivated, and flexible
- Highly organized
- Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook
Perks of the job
- Working from home options once you have your feet under the desk.
- 25% staff discount across all Freedom products, including sales prices.
- Work with collaborative team and endless workplace opportunities.
Have a voice, make an impact, and find your seat at Freedom.
Freedom to grow. Freedom to think. Freedom to be.