Supplier Coordinator

Supplier Coordinator works directly with HFT vendors and sub-suppliers to track PO confirmation, PO delay tracking, capacity check, production progress to ensure product quality, on-time delivery and proactively find solutions to any delay issue caused by vendors. The position requires frequent domestic vendors visits and in-depth understanding of the product manufacturing process, ability to identify various bottlenecks and risks that may occur during production and provides various improvements solutions. Supplier coordinator must have open communication with multiple teams to ensure relevant teams have consistent and correct information, especially working closer with vendor management and QC team. The supplier coordinator must have a proactive approach to mitigate future shipping delays and risk, communicating all potential risks and opportunities to the Vendor Management team. Essential Duties and Responsibilities • Travel to various factories including domestic and oversea and submit corresponding reports to cross functional teams • Analyze vendors' production process and improve bottleneck • Follow up with vendors on their continuous improvement plans • Train vendors to provide timely and accurate report of order modification • Validate order modifications and update order packet accordingly with reason codes and report to involved teams with any key issue • Analyze vendors delayed/unconfirmed POs and work with vendors / vendor managers to find solutions and follow up the action plans • Validate/analyze vendors stated Lead Time/capacity to identify and mitigate any potential risks/issues with production • Monitor and analyze vendors’ PO performance, capacity, and on-time delivery on a regular basis, generating reports accordingly • Work with Quality Control team to coordinate any quality issues and follow up actions • Collect vendor’s market information and share with team • Additional duties as assigned by supervisor