[ Your Future Company ]
Bokksu is a venture-backed, trailblazing direct-to-consumer brand that delivers artisanal Japanese snacks to happy snackers in 100+ countries. We're proud to partner directly with centuries-old family snack makers in Japan to bring their yummy morsels to the world. Our success has earned us features on Today Show, WSJ, NY Times, Wirecutter, and the Strategist. Join us in spreading the joy of Japanese snacks globally!
[ Your Responsibilities ]
Bokksu is seeking an experienced Mandarin Category Buyer to effectively execute purchasing processes for our grocery e-commerce and wholesale offerings. Responsibilities will include:
- Formulating and Implementing Purchasing Strategies: Develop and execute effective procurement strategies to optimize sourcing, cost-efficiency, and supplier relationships.
- Conducting Cost Analysis, Scenario Evaluation, and Benchmarking: Analyze pricing trends, evaluate scenarios, and benchmark supplier offerings to drive cost-effective procurement decisions.
- Assessing, Managing, and Mitigating Risk: Identify potential supply chain risks, develop strategies to mitigate them, and ensure business continuity.
- Cultivating and Nurturing Supplier Relationships: Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with suppliers, fostering long-term partnerships and collaboration.
- Managing Inventory: Ensure accurate inventory data (including inventory on-hand, expiration dates, etc.) and manage ordering to decrease out of stock % while minimizing waste.
- Optimizing Product Assortment: Make business recommendations based on market trends, new product offerings, current performance, and other forms of data to continue building compelling assortments for our customers at Bokksu.
- Collaborating Cross-Functionally: Work with internal teams (including Product, Logistics, eCommerce, and Marketing) to optimize logistics, drive sales, and run marketing initiatives to ensure sell-through and maximize revenue.
[ Your Skills ]
- Able to prioritize and keep track of all key tasks, manage multiple responsibilities and workflows simultaneously, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced operational environment due to your strong organization skills and high level of accountability.
- Comfortable gathering, analyzing, and contextualizing data to identify opportunities, evaluate alternatives, and present critical information to solve complex problems.
- Experience in managing import/export processes and navigating international procurement process
- Approaches work methodically and finds ways to improve and document processes.
- Highly collaborative and enjoys working cross-functionally with other teams and externally with vendors to execute on key business opportunities.
- Fosters an environment of continual training and development, demonstrating a willingness to learn from, listen to, motivate, and collaborate with colleagues to tackle problems.
- Communicates clearly with the ability to present and support a point of view by leveraging data.
- Curious and passionate about food and culture, always looking to learn more about the industry, new products, and trends.
[ Your Qualifications ]
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
- Have 2-3 years of experience in international trade, purchasing, procurement, merchandising, category management, or related e-commerce or grocery experience.
- Have familiarity with e-commerce and project management tools, including Shopify, Slack, AirTable, ShipHero, Notion, and Asana.
- Have familiarity with basic Excel/Google Sheets functions such as INDEX-MATCH, VLOOKUP, etc.
- Have in-office work experience. Startup experience is preferred.
- Have experience working in a fast-paced, scrappy startup environment, with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, take initiative, and thrive in a dynamic and entrepreneurial setting.
- A deep passion for food and culture.
- Fluency in Mandarin and English; Japanese a plus
[ Your Benefits ]
- Visa Sponsorship
- Medical benefits
- Paid PTO
- Commuter benefits
- Company retreats, happy hours, dinners, and other outings
- Monthly Bokksu subscription and unlimited in-office Japanese snacks!
Bokksu provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
