Sourcing Specialist

RS Components; Selangor; On-site; MYR 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Sourcing Specialist, where you'll manage sourcing activities, ensuring effective vendor relationships and commercial success. With a focus on continuous improvement and collaboration, you'll play a key role in driving procurement strategies. If you have strong negotiation and analytical skills, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years in supplier management, strategic sourcing, or procurement.
• Strong negotiation skills and excellent analytical abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage sourcing of products and services for commercial effectiveness.
• Negotiate commercial terms and manage vendor relationships.
• Enhance product processes using Continuous Improvement approaches.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Job description

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As a Sourcing Specialist, you will be managing the sourcing of products and services, ensuring commercial effectiveness and fostering positive relationships with external vendors and internal stakeholders at RS Components.

What you will do in this role…

• Sourcing & Procurement: Manage product articles and services to support sales and customer strategy.
• Commercial Acumen: Apply commercial judgment to respond to product inquiries.
• Data Management: Create and maintain accurate product article data.
• Process Improvement: Enhance product processes using Continuous Improvement (CI) approaches.
• Vendor Relationships: Develop strong vendor relationships and manage stakeholders.
• Negotiation: Negotiate commercial terms and service scope with vendors.
• ERP System: Procure product articles and services following company policies using the ERP system.
• Vendor Performance: Drive vendor delivery performance and resolve non-conformance issues.
• Collaboration: Work with Sales & Marketing teams to interpret requirements and enable profitable responses.
• Vendor Onboarding: Identify and onboard new vendors for sourcing needs.
• Communication: Maintain effective communication of sourcing and supplier updates to internal teams.
• Risk Mitigation: Ensure adherence to RS Group/APAC Policy.

What do I need to be successful?

• Experience: Minimum 2 years in supplier management, strategic sourcing, or procurement.
• Skills: Strong negotiation skills, excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Ready to make a significant impact? Apply now to join our dynamic team!

We are RS Group

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, turning customer challenges into achievements.

Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.

Together, we have one purpose: To make amazing happen for a better world – and have fun doing it. It won’t always be easy, but we’ll make every day better. It’s in the DNA of our people to do the right thing and deliver brilliant results. We’ll invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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Consumer Electronics Manufacturing 1,001-5,000 employees

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products. With operations in 32 countries, we offer around 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping more than 46,000 parcels on the same day the orders are received. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronics, automation and control, test and measurement, electrical and mechanical components.