James Tee Meng Kwee
Summary
Experienced professional with 28 years in Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics, Marketing, and Operations. Known for dedication and hard work ethic, driven by internal motivation to deliver exceptional results. Diverse background provides skills to excel in fast-paced, dynamic work environments.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Procurement
STUFF'D VENTURES PTE LTD
07.2022 - Current
- Managing procurement team from sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing goods and services of food & non-food related to meet the need of company by following compliance and guidelines. This involves managing the entire procurement process, from identifying needs to finalizing contracts and managing supplier relationships.
- Managing a Procurement team for handling 4 Companies under Stuff’d Ventures (Stuff’d Ventures, Ordinary Burgers, Hugabo & Dabba Street) food & non-food related sourcing strategies to meet the needs of internal customers.
- Ensure compliance with the Procurement policy and company guidelines.
Assistant Manager, Procurement
RE&S ENTERPRISES PTE LTD
06.2021 - 03.2022
- Managing sourcing team to develop and implement food & non-food related sourcing strategies to meet the need of company by following compliance and guidelines.
- Develop and implement food & non-food related sourcing strategies to meet the needs of internal customers.
- Ensure compliance with the Purchasing policy and company guidelines.
- Actively work with indent team, internal customers to ensure earliest engagement.
- Execute expertise in cost comparisons to meet the requestors’ requirement with the interest of the Company, in terms of quality, service and negotiate best supply terms/Trading terms for the Company.
- Lead inter-departments for promotion work representing procurement team.
- Continuously works on analysis, understanding of the evolution of the market, suppliers and goods & services and use the results for the sourcing process.
- Lead negotiation for category of work (seafood, flour, rice, nonalcohol beverages and crockery & utensil from local and oversea), manages two-way communication through active involvement.
- Handle quality-supply claims issues with internal customers and suppliers.
- Proactively provide information to superior on product related procurement opportunities and issues and respective sourcing alternatives.
- Work closely and effectively with internal management.
- Guide and train new/junior staffs within the department.
Senior Executive, Procurement, SCM
PIZZA HUT SINGAPORE PTE LTD
05.2019 - 05.2021
- Works closely with the Food Innovation Department (FID) team on new product developments by sourcing food items.
- Negotiates with suppliers to obtain best prices.
- Updates the price list of Pizza Hut food items and submits to the relevant departments (Finance & FID).
- Monitor the stock levels of food items & replenish to the target stock holding levels.
- Monitors the draws and usages of promo SKUs and highlights potential stock concerns to cross functional teams.
- Sends promo alert to suppliers.
- Processes purchase orders for food items.
- Works closely with Agility (3PL) on stock and supplier issues for Pizza Hut food items.
- Coordinates delivery shipping documents and import permit for weekly purchases from / to Pizza Hut Malaysia.
- Submits Halal Certificates to the halal liaison officer for onward submission to the MUIS for halal approval.
- Ensures Halal Certificates from suppliers are updated for company’s halal certificate renewal.
- Works closely with QA and 3rd party warehouse on shelf-life matrix, product temperature, FEFO practice and ensure that suppliers adhere to Pizza Hut requirements.
- Managing products sourcing, price negotiation and coordination of QA approval.
Senior Executive, Procurement
RE&S ENTERPRISES PTE LTD
01.2018 - 04.2019
- Managing categories of Fresh & preserved Vegetables, Fruits, toys and Crockery & Utensil (local & oversea).
- Source for supply requirement and liaise closely with suppliers and respective department to ensure timely delivery.
- Execute expertise in cost comparisons to meet the requestors’ requirement with the interest of the company, in terms of quality and service.
- Responsible for best-sourcing, negotiating and processing of materials purchase.
- Ensure correctness, completeness and traceability of documents as well as timely payment to suppliers.
- Check and determine Purchase Request information provided by the respective departments.
- Manage orders / PO to suppliers.
- Keep system information updated.
- Monitor suppliers’ performance to ensure timely deliveries and specification of products order.
- Match and verify invoices with deliveries and purchase orders.
- Replenish and source for existing & new products.
- Coordination with outlets on issues and return of goods to warehouse / suppliers.
- Process claims with suppliers.
- Monitor and updating of master product list and pricing / supplier list.
- Ensure proper code creation for system masters, including product description, UOM eg.
- Administration and maintenance of E10 system.
- Update central filing on products specification, suppliers’ profile, products catalogues and pricelist.
- Issue and update Memo to outlets.
- Stock Movement update for top SKUs and Expiry Stock Check.
- Co-ordinate internal customer’s feedback to team for follow-up.
- Update SOP.
- Supporting Ad-Hoc PO request by other department.
Executive, Logistics
MARTIN BROWER PTE LTD
01.2017
- Plan and monitor inbound shipment and work closely with 3PL to ensure smooth inventory movement for client (McDonalds).
- Plan and monitor inbound shipments/freights from overseas and local suppliers.
- Work closely with Operation team and 3PL in executing inbound shipment plan.
- Cascade daily and weekly shipment plan to 3PL for feedback if any capacity issue on warehouse operation and capacity.
- Work with purchasers and inventory controller to adjust inbound shipment/freight plan, based on stock holding and feedback from 3PL.
- Track and monitor cost of unloading containers per shipment/freight plan. Raise it for management approval per governance.
- Track and consolidate shipping documents from suppliers and share it timely with 3PL for import license permit application.
Senior Executive, Marketing
McDONALD’S RESTAURANTS PTE LTD
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Strategizing, planning and execution of campaigns across the nationwide restaurants, McDelivery, McCafe, Dessert Kiosk and Drive-Thru, alongside the marketing and cross functional colleagues.
- Possess supervisory, effective team work, strong communication and interpersonal skills and has the ability to interact with colleagues and business partners in a mature and professional manner.
- Plan alongside the management team with communication briefs, sales/product projection, consumer research and other planning tools put in place to clearly define the strategies and achieve the objectives.
- Manage the Marketing/Campaign budgets and deployment along with Marketing Members and cross functional Team.
- Work closely with Media and Creative agency at developing media schedules and also creative/media strategies to each of the campaigns.
- Follow through the full array of campaign execution duties from pre to post campaign.
- Ability to complete assignments on tight dateline.
- Ability to work independently, self-driven and results-oriented as well as able to cope to with multi-roles work.
- Strong customer service background with an exceptional attention to detail.
- Able to adapt fast on constant changes within working environment.
- Received McDonald’s Top Cross-Functional Team Award in 2013, an award to team members who had demonstrated great team work and initiative during the planning and execution of the event culminating in the success of National Breakfast Day.
- Responsible for customization of all point-of-sales-materials to 132 restaurants island-wide. Key project lead for Happy Meal program.
Restaurant Manager
McDONALD’S RESTAURANTS PTE LTD
01.1997 - 01.2012
- Managing the restaurant day to day operation by planning and execute smooth working flow.
- Develop each of employees for succession plan.
- Plan, organize and manage the Restaurant effectively in executing the day-to-day operations.
- Plan, propose and execute Marketing promotion.
- Ensure proper development of staff in order to enhance their competence level by conducting regular reviews of job performance and conducting the staff’s Learning Needs Analysis.
- Facilitate and motivate a team in interactions, Work health Safety Program and moving towards better working life style.
- Facilitate and motivate the team to innovate.
- Plan, organize and implement Restaurant budget, conducts regular analysis of Branch’s expenses to optimize operational and maintenance costs in the Restaurant. Ensures accurate determination of expenses budget forecasts, projection and variances between actual and full-year expenses in the Profit and Loss Statement within variance of +/-10%.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
University of Wales
01.2011
Advance Diploma - Business Management
Raffles Education Corp College
01.2009
Diploma - Commerce Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Kaplan Higher Education Institute
01.2018
Skills
- Teamwork
- Inventory Management
- Negotiation
- Strategic Planning
- Multi-tasking
- Vendor Management
- Interpersonal skills
- Operations management
- Executive support
- Customer-oriented
LANGUAGE
English
Malay
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Driving License Class 2 & 3
Timeline
Manager, Procurement
STUFF'D VENTURES PTE LTD
07.2022 - Current
Assistant Manager, Procurement
RE&S ENTERPRISES PTE LTD
06.2021 - 03.2022
Senior Executive, Procurement, SCM
PIZZA HUT SINGAPORE PTE LTD
05.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Executive, Procurement
RE&S ENTERPRISES PTE LTD
01.2018 - 04.2019
Executive, Logistics
MARTIN BROWER PTE LTD
01.2017
Senior Executive, Marketing
McDONALD’S RESTAURANTS PTE LTD
01.2013 - 01.2016
Restaurant Manager
McDONALD’S RESTAURANTS PTE LTD
01.1997 - 01.2012
Advance Diploma - Business Management
Raffles Education Corp College
Diploma - Commerce Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Kaplan Higher Education Institute
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
University of Wales
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