This role focuses on business development in retail robotics, expanding partnerships with convenience stores in Japan.
About this role
This specialist sources AI-robot components from early device design through prototypes, validation and mass production. The role manages purchasing across current and next-generation models and coordinates specifications with engineers and overseas suppliers.
Responsibilities include evaluating quotations and cost validity, selecting suppliers, reducing next-model cost, maintaining BOM cost sheets, negotiating price and terms, and drafting and concluding procurement contracts.
Candidates need three to seven years of purchasing in robotics or an automotive, industrial-equipment, electronics or other meaningful-volume industry. They must solve issues proactively, use Excel quantitatively with VLOOKUP and SUMIF, discuss a technical domain peer-to-peer with engineers, build processes from zero, and read mechanical, electrical or both kinds of drawings. Conversational English is required for overseas suppliers and manufacturers. Japanese must be native-level or JLPT N1 equivalent.
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