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ALPHA CRC VENDOR COORDINATOR ASIA & AFRICA – JOB DESCRIPTION（工作语言是英语）

MISSION

Alpha's vendor coordinator in Asia & Africa will interface with the Vendor Management function located in Alpha's HQ in the UK and help to identify, qualify, engage and monitor external suppliers worldwide, but focusing primarily on the Asian and African markets, in order to build a reliable pool of external resources that will ensure quality of service, timeliness and competitive rates for Alpha's ever expanding projects.

TASKS

• Identify new suppliers using available channels and explore untested channels

• Identify vendor capabilities (language pairs, subject matter expertise, references)

• Work with Alpha's Vendor Management and the project managers to identify needs and find appropriate resources

• Engage in constructive relationships with new and existing vendors with a view to maintain a long term collaboration relationship

• Negotiate framework agreements including rates, deliverables, scalability

• Anticipate future demands by paving the road for access to talents for emerging needs

• Assess new suppliers to understand history, capabilities and environment

• Organize and conduct meetings with established vendors (typically once or twice a year) to address issues and requirements

• Monitor payment cycles

• Manage vendor complaints

SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES

• Good listening skills

• Experience in negotiating

• Excellent communication skills in English and Chinese

• Understanding of multicultural environment

• Ability to work autonomously with little or no supervision

• Ability to produce tangible results

• Previous experience in a localization/translation environment preferred

This opportunity is based in Shanghai.

About Alpha

Alpha has been at the forefront of the translation, localisation and now globalisation industries since 1987, and is a global top-10 localisation provider. We've built an in-house production model for the world's most demanding companies and work with many of the world's biggest brands.

Alpha is a warm, lively and welcoming firm with over 30 nationalities represented in its 18 offices. Every individual adds their own personality to our culture, and everyone contributes to defining our core brand values, which are: smart, human and global.

In the end, being part of the team is about more than work. We have activities ranging from summer paint-ball to cookery contests; book exchange to film watching, taking place across all our 18 countries. The global client list currently counts more than 1,000 companies and covers a number of sectors including automotive, fashion and luxury brands, games, and IT.

Alpha CRC has become one of the world's most successful globalization companies over the past 26 years. We are passionate about our role in Globalization (GL10n), Localization and Translation.

Over this period, Alpha CRC has developed a complete, in-house AGILE GL10n service solution for clients worldwide.With a commitment to continuous development, we continue to enhance our global 'end-to-end' solution, producing multi-million word globalization projects and offering specialist services for world-class companies.