Hieu Nhan - AMCT

Experience

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  Nike Vietnam LLC

  Jan 1996 - Jul 2011

  Manage the materials sourcing business for all Nike Vietnam Footwear factories in a manner that is consistent with corporate strategies, supports product integrity and promotes and protects the vendor-Nike-factory relationship.• Strategically built and implemented an efficient material sourcing model - the local supplier base model - to increase materials localisation, ensure right-first-time quality materials delivered on time and drive material cost savings initiative • Partnered with footwear business leaders and functional leaders in Sustainable Manufacturing & Sourcing (SM&S), Laboratory... in selection of global and local material suppliers • Partnered cross-functionally with Materials Labs, Product Development, Product Engineering and Product Chemicals, Supply Planning... in helping suppliers to increase operational efficiency, improve material quality by identifying potential improvements and implementing more cost-effective process in areas such as: reduce expedite orders from factories to suppliers, increase color RFT (Right-First-Time)… • Collaborated with the NITC (Nike Innovation and Training Center) & the Lean team in developing the LEAN community among the suppliers to drive “continuous improvement” through NOS Competency Camp training program• Led the team in revamping the Global Material Scorecard to monitor supplier performance - both global and local suppliers• Played key role in supporting materials innovation, sustainable materials roadmaps and suppliers' capability/capacity building• Designed and implemented the new “Leadership Development Curriculum” for Footwear Materials Team's talents Show less Oversee country-wide systems operations, infrastructure, processes and procedures to facilitate the Footwear Product Process within Nike and our Manufacturing partners.• Administered operating, capital, and IT project budgets of up to US$ 800,000• Successful negotiated with local telecom company (VNPT) to get 20% discount for leased-lines from Nike Vietnam LO to WHQ/Hong Kong and 7 footwear factories, plus telephone charges; resulted in annual savings of US$100,000• Organized Nike and factories to manage Y2K concerns, determined Y2K application and/or third-party utility issues both internally and with factories by leasing hardware to create rollover date simulations and applications test. Results included: Proof of company’s testing performance; Full Y2K compliance for all applications and remediation of all systems before January 1st, 2000 Show less

  • Footwear Materials Director

    Sept 2005 - Jul 2011

  • Country System Manager/IT Manager

    Aug 2002 - Sept 2005

  • Assistant to Country System Manager

    Mar 1997 - Aug 2002

  • Quality Auditor

    Jan 1996 - Mar 1997
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  Nike Global Trading B.V. - Singapore Branch

  Jul 2011 - now

  • Assist Nike Global Treasury team by building relationships with factory partners in order to gather the best view of the factory's foreign exchange (FX) sourcing exposures during the product cycle. • Be the primary resource for the factories in educating, training, sharing NIKE’s process impacts related to FX. • Assist with departmental projects, and interact with a number of internal customers and external partners to ensure customer satisfaction with data requests and Treasury services. • Manage of exposure information gathering from the factories, which serve as base information for treasury to manage NIKE’s buy-side FX exposure.• Stay on top of current and forecasted impacts to the factories’ and NIKE’s exposures by tracking and evaluating global currency movements and changes in the manufacturing landscape which impact global FX sourcing exposures. • Responsible for the maintenance of the FX-components of the vendor-master set-up, the factories’ FX splits and the exception-table managing the timing of the FX adjustments. • Directly interact with inter-company counter parts, including Senior Financial Analysts within Treasury, Product Engine Costing, Product Engine Finance and Country/Geography Finance teams. • Adhere to and educate others on internal controls, policies and procedures that appropriately safeguard accuracy and confidentiality of sensitive factory information. Show less

  • Senior Manager - FX Risk Management

    May 2014 - now

  • Financial Supply Chain - Factory Relationship Manager

    Jul 2011 - May 2014