Korean Bilingual Procurement Analyst

The Opportunity

Join LGEAI and play a key role in shaping our procurement strategy as a Korean Bilingual Procurement Analyst II. In this role, you’ll manage critical tasks within the General Procurement Process, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and value across all purchasing activities.

You’ll be responsible for analyzing procurement data, ensuring stability of SVC parts pipeline and proposing innovative approaches that can transform current ways of working. The role requires close collaboration with global vendors and prospective suppliers across multiple countries, monitoring market trends and global issues that impact operations, and supporting forecasting and cost analysis to enable data-driven decision-making. Strong cross-functional collaboration will be essential to align product delivery, pricing, and quality expectations, helping to achieve company goals.

Responsibilities

• Vendor and market research
• - Conduct market research to support sourcing and procurement strategies
• - Track cost savings initiatives and process-innovation goals
• - Understand internal stakeholders’ needs and provide procurement solutions
• - Coordinate with various internal groups to align expectations
• Risk Management
• - Analyze global economic, geopolitical, and supply chain environments to assess present and future risks and minimize them
• Performing metrics analysis and reporting
• - Weekly, monthly and yearly reporting on a variety of metrics and/or projects. Areas include process innovation and cost saving on savings, status of procurement requests and issues
• Interdepartmental support
• - Working with various groups within the company (Accounting, Quality and Engineering, Customer Service, Field Support, Tech Support, etc.) and provide informative and correct analysis of commodity markets, technology, and trends upon request
• - Working with the Legal Team to create contracts with vendors that minimize risks

Education / Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; data-related or analytical fields strongly preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, project management preferred
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel (advanced level) and Power Point
• Proven hands-on experience with data analysis tools, including Python, SQL, and/or equivalent data analytics platforms, with a demonstrated ability to automate reporting, analyze large datasets, and drive data-based proposals
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to work successfully in a fast-paced, and rapidly changing, environment
• Ability to travel up to 10% if required
• Korean-English bilingual proficiency required (verbal and written)