Wei Chen Leslie Lu

Utilizing the language skills and expertise in merchandising to bring more savory, healthy, and high quality food choice to the community as always been my passion in working as a oversea buyer.

Work Experience

Oversea Procurement Administrator  •  Johnson Health Technology Co, Ltd

June 2020 - Present

1.  Sourcing organic and health- promoting products from well-developed countries such as Europe,                   Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand and distribute them to Taiwan.

2.  Develop strategic plans for product selection and business partner selection to make our scope more         focused and attract audience who shop at the same value.

3.  Supervise inventory control and propose order plans to monitor overall product costs and successfully        meet 10% reduction goal.

4.  Handling contract Renewal and negotiations with suppliers.

Merchandiser  •  Simple Mart Retailing Co., Ltd

April 2018 - November 2019

1. Develop annual procurement strategy based on the target budget

2. Analyze sales reports and develop future action plans

3. Observe consumer behavior and market trends in the shops to introduce new and attractive products           from Japan and Korea

4. Successfully introduce product of different genre to attract different customer to shop in                                Japanese/Korean snack section and generate 20% sales growth in 2019.

Oversea buyer  •  Lynnbros Industrial Co., Ltd

April 2010 - February 2018

1. Sourcing new food ingredients or additives requests from sales team.

2. Negotiating prices with manufacturers, and striving for the best price.

3. Responsible for major food additives suppliers whose products accounts for almost 2/3 of the annual sales.

Product Specialist  •  Glory Kingdom Co., Ltd

September 2006 - September 2009

1. Handling and coordinating in all business of new product launch or promotional activities for the Aboca      brand.

2. Coordinating with designer teams to make marketing aids tool such as pamphlet, package renewing,          shelf talkers, display stands etc.

3. Writing healthy lifestyle educational articles in brochures, magazines, and other promotional aids

4. New personnel Training for all company products.

Education

2000 - 2004

University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Food Science Dietetics

Skills

Language


  • word
  • Demand Planning
  • excel
  • powerpoint
  • toeic900+
  • JLPT N1
  • CPP

  • English — Professional
  • Chinese — Professional
  • Japanese — Conversation