Director of Cluster Purchasing – Viet Nam tại Melia Hotels International

7/2022 → 10/2023 (1 năm 3 tháng)

Ho Chi Minh

- Build a purchasing department including the human recruitment, procedure creation and all relevant activities for go live a new department. - Training the purchasing skills to all new team to ensure the procedure complied and deployed well, as well as to directly support them to solve challenges at first stage. - Track the implementation of the purchasing procedure with all properties to ensure deploying in sync, to provide immediately solution/ alternative options in case the implementation been facing with the difficulties from regional culture. - Responsibility for managing the procurement team for hotels/ resorts supporting the daily operation, company growth, execution and professionalizing the purchasing department of Melia Vinpearl chain in entire Viet Nam. - Do centralized purchase for all routine items/ repeated item/ categorized group items how to optimize and save best costs. - Do the plan for purchase items and service quarterly, yearly to optimize cost and simplify works. - Review all existing frame prices and re-build as well as expedite purchase under cluster how to be better, more cost effectively if their prices were not good. - Review monthly prices of all food items how to be most competitive and in line with market prices from local markets. - To check, review, revise all contracts how to protect and limit risks for company. - To support management board to review, check approval letters before circulating to them. - Grow team skills and capability. Help in developing a professional procurement function. - Liaise with key internal stakeholders and manage the procurement team in supporting daily operational requirements. - To ask and provide solutions to buyer team for building more new suppliers/product sourcing to support daily operation better. - Streamlining the procurement process for routine/low value items (monthly) and driving value hard in leverage and strategic product categories (quarterly/yearly). - Execute national, group and multi-location agreements.

Purchasing Officer tại Caravelle Hotel

3/2004 → 6/2010 (6 năm 3 tháng)

HCMC

- Handle purchase requests from all the Departments such as kitchens, IT, Maintenance, store department. - Confers with manufacturers and main distributors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule, payment term, after –sales service then submits to purchasing manager. - Coordinate with the store supervisor or user departments on the need to re-order goods based on adequacy of present stock. - Prepare the import document, customs clearance and calculate import taxes for all import goods. - Coordinate with Finance to follow up invoices and payment to make sure the right invoice and purchase from reputable suppliers. - Carry out monthly market survey to update new information such as new price and suppliers. To nominate new suppliers who have good items and reasonable and competitive prices to the purchasing manager.

Purchasing Manager tại Moevenpick Hotel Saigon/

6/2010 → 2/2013 (2 năm 8 tháng)

HCMC

- Build a purchasing team, a soft system of purchasing items how to be professional in line with purchase activities for all items. - Make bids for all food monthly and then select the best items and cost for the hotel. The monthly bid prices are valid within a month, it allows for adjusting a lower price matching with market if market prices got fluctuations. The award of any contract or new order to a new supplier must be reviewed their background, last business to ensure they are reputable suppliers that also avoid undelivered cases when they win in the bid/ tender. - Daily check at 10AM with purchasing staff about delivery status then give advices to solve missing goods, or non-delivery immediately. Other items under groups of non-food items conduct to check on every Wednesday. - Recommend to end-users for new items, alternative items with similar usage and quality but its cost lower in the case they are not available in Vietnam market. - Regarding imported goods. Show its cost to management, to calculate all taxes, related fees for their budget. Negotiation price, delivery time and payment for the best choice. Contacting with governmental departments to apply for import certificates. - Recommend similar goods in the special case which are seasonal items (fruit, vegetable) or not harvest. - Submit all purchase orders to management for their approval before sending them to suppliers. - Coordinate with the Account Payable on credit term with suppliers how to best and convenient with the finance situation of hotel. Propose, Negotiate, and purchase the best service as well as good aftersales services for hotel. - Handle of purchasing problems such as no-availability of standard items ordered, poor services, sudden price increment, etc. - Make a briefing meeting purchasing section monthly for improving works better. Acquire opinions from staff and give prompt support.

Operations Control & Support Manager (Supply Chain Manager) tại Công ty TNHH Aden Services Việt Nam

3/2013 → 3/2016 (3 năm )

HCMC

- Manages operations control & support department. - Manages purchasing team, material planning, scheduling, inventory management, handles load, capacity, and bottlenecks in the industrial catering environment and cleaning services. - Improve company policies and procedures in coordination with another department. Help vendors set up policies and procedures to attain higher standards. - Identification of problems relatives to suppliers and purchasing, proposals of solutions, then resolution - Drawing up, revision or updating of the supplier contracts - Analyze pricing trends and opportunities and give feedback to the operation manager and Branch manager. Highlight opportunities for alternate sourcing and more competitive pricing. - Manages and control food cost, warehouse, checks consumption and inventory daily, monthly. - Responsibility for purchasing, cost controlling, check inventory, warehouse, distribution, transportation for 43 outlets. - Analyze inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, or optimize customer service. - Making sure suppliers have enough stock to meet demand, ensuring stores have enough stock on hand for activities at outlets. - Manage and source new suppliers with better items and better services. - Coordinate with the Development team and lead cost reduction initiatives in all aspects of the company. - Maintain the balance between quality, productivity, cost, safety, and morale to achieve positive results in all areas. - Manage supplier’s payable debts by checking purchase request against truth delivery notes at the end of monthly. - Make price comparison report monthly.

Procurement Head tại L-concept

4/2016 → 1/2017 (9 tháng)

HCMC

- Manage and control purchasing team to ensure supplying goods and service for restaurants chain in good operation. - Ensure physical stock is conducted as scheduled, identify, and organize adequate storage for all perpetual inventory items and implements corporate policy, products and initiatives in order to maximize cost effectiveness. - Translates operating forecasts into material requirements plans and thereby determines standard stock and re-order level with Department Heads and Management. - Qualify new vendors and develop reliable sources of supply, obtain competitive quotations and bids. Source, recommend and suggests all equipment and facilities for setting up a new restaurant. - Source and purchase unique equipment according to requester’s idea, sourcing and proposing them via unique vendor and producer, even oversea suppliers, or small vendor via hand carry service. - Establishes standard purchasing specifications. Ensures purchasing and delivery are accurate, supporting documents for purchase and payment correctly. - Ensures that market surveys are completed in coordination with the Head Chef, Operation Manager and Accountant. - Co-ordinate with development department to process the purchase of OES for new projects/new restaurants. - Open new restaurants, depend on concepts from each brand – L’usine, Namo, Sizzlin Steek to seek the OES vendors respectively. - Follow up the progress of projects to conduct ordering and manage supply on time. - Plan to process cluster purchases for restaurant chain how to optimize and save best costs. PARTICIPATION AND SUCCESSFUL OPENING. - Opened new restaurant: 1st Sizzlin Steak restaurant in Aeon mall in July 2016. - Opened new restaurant: 2nd Sizzlin Steak in Phu My Hung Dist 7 in Sept 2016. - Opened new restaurant: Namo Tuscan grill in Dist. 1 in Nov 2016.

Procurement manager tại Ascott International Management, Vietnam

2/2017 → 5/2022 (5 năm 2 tháng)

HCMC

- Manage and control purchasing team to ensure all purchasing activities follow Group’s policy strictly. - Monitor purchasing activities for all properties in South Vietnam (7 properties in South Viet Nam including Somerset Chancellor Court, Somerset Ho Chi Minh, Somerset Vista, Somerset Feliz, Somerset D1Mension (closed in Nov 2021) Citadines Regency SaiGon, Citadines Central Binh Duong, Citadines Bayfront Nha Trang) - Plan for cluster purchases as a chain for all items and outsource services of building/properties. (Quarterly and yearly). - Do centralized purchase for all routine items/ repeated item/ categorized group items how to optimize and save best costs. - Check the budget and propose the best goods and services to match with budget targeted. Seek approval for additional budget of goods or services which are overrun budget. - Systematize purchasing activities how to simplify process. - Check, review, revise all contracts to protect and limit risks for the company. - Support management board to review, check approval letters before circulating to them. - For construction/opening of new building/properties, to control all purchase activities to ensure P&P compliance and procedure of Ascott’s group. And follow the opening plan to push deliveries on time as targeted. - Support management board the cost of OES for budgeting. Based on each brand of property, It may Ascott, Somerset or Citadines. The respective OES will be applied accurately. - Process all purchases of setup cost items, equipment, tools, outsource service contracts for opening and operating of new building/properties. - Take full responsibility to set up, train the purchase process for new team/building/property, including P&P, DOA, Procedure and Software system usage (SAP system). - Control the cost for new properties’ purchase by checking actual consumption, to compare consumed quantity from other properties and advise reasonable quantity for ordering. - Manage/ lead the tender/bid to comply Ascott Group’s policy. Attend and lead the tender interview to negotiate the price, payment term and finalize spec, delivery schedule, warranty, after sales service how to get the best deals. PROJECTS PARTICIPATION AND SUCCESSFUL OPENING. - Opened new property: Citadines Regency Sai Gon in July 2018. - Opened new property: Citadines Central Binh Duong in Nov 2018. - Opened new property: Somerset D1Mension in Oct 2019. - Opened new property: Somerset Feliz HCM in July 2021.

Annual KPI appraisal PL2 - Over expectation

2/2017

Performance Appraisal annual from 2017 to 2022 archived PL2 that is over expectation. PROJECTS PARTICIPATION AND SUCCESSFUL OPENING: - Opened new property: Citadine Regency Sai Gon in July 2018. - Opened new property: Citadine Central Binh Duong in Nov 2018. - Opened new property: Somerset D1Mension in Oct 2019. - Opened new property: Somerset Feliz HCM in July 2021. OTHER PROJECTS PARTICIPATION AND SUCCESSFUL OPENING IN 2016. - Opened 1st Sizzlin Steak restaurant in Aeon mall in July 2016. - Opened 2nd Sizzlin Steak in Phu My Hung Dist 7 in Sept 2016. - Opened Namo Tuscan grill in Nov 2016.

Cassie Sia - South Financial Controller (retired- enclosed Malaysia phone No.)

Ascott International Viet Nam

cassiesia1212@yahoo.com - 60127702671

Dung Elvis Tran Nguyen Anh - South Vietnam General Director – Aden Services Vietnam

Aden Services Vietnam

elvisdung@yahoo.com - 0934153599