The Global Sourcing Manager will play a crucial role in helping the VP of Global Sourcing optimize our supply chain, drive cost efficiencies, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality raw materials and finished goods. This role is responsible for developing and managing supplier relationships, including negotiating with outside vendors to ensure appropriate quality, pricing and factory capacity.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage Open to Buy planning with S&OP team to ensure margin goals are met with proper inventory management.
• Ensures that all approvals from Product Development and Tech Design have been received in a timely manner per our Go to Market calendar in order to maintain bulk delivery requirements.
• Material management and negotiation strategies including global sourcing.
• Request and analyze quotations and bids. Promote the need to share cost break down analysis to aide negotiations of per unit cost, commanding best overall cost and commercial terms.
• Train and direct personnel (internal and overseas teams); strategic supplier reviews, product lifecycle management, and obsolete inventory disposition.
• Works with Raw Materials Planner to ensure fabric and trim needs are aligned with finished goods PO’s.
• Develop measure and report performance metrics related to purchasing, strategic planning, and inventory management.
• Develop and support relationships with strategic suppliers within assigned regions to ensure quality consumer products are manufactured and delivered on time. (including traveling to the manufacturing plants)
• Evaluate existing sources for technical capability and progressiveness, manufacturing capability, quality system, management and financial stability, cost competitiveness and responsiveness.

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Economics or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with production sourcing, product development, or merchandising in apparel required.
• Strong working knowledge of production process, garment construction, and technical design.
• Foundational understanding of global trade agreements and trade regulations.
• Must be able to troubleshoot production issues and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
• Proficient in MS Office applications.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in the Uniform industry highly valued.
• Experience with SAP/CIMs or comparable MRP/ERP systems preferred.

COMPETENCIES

• Service Focus – Places great emphasis on creating customer loyalty by ensuring the highest value of service is always provided and by delivering on commitments to the customer.
• Information Seeking – Underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. Goes beyond routine questions and digs for exact information to resolve discrepancies.
• Composure and Resiliency – Ability to deal effectively with pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, and remain optimistic and persistent even under adversity. Able to maintain self-confidence and avoid overly emotional responses in tense or difficult situations.
• Communicating – Provides the information required by others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way. Strives to ensure that the receiver clearly understands the specifics of their message and they are able to listen to, receive, and understand messages conveyed by others.
• Conflict Management – Addresses problems openly and objectively and brings substantial conflicts and disagreements into the open with the intention of resolving issues in an unemotional and constructive manner.
• Analytical Thinking – Capability and the inclination to identify and synthesize information from diverse sources by looking for patterns in data, making connections between seemingly unrelated events, and understanding how different parts of a system are interdependent.
• Accountability – Takes responsibility for their own performance and accepts full ownership of issues, problems, and opportunities regardless of the source. Works in a careful and organized manner, pays attention to all pertinent details, follows through on commitments and promises, and builds trust through reliability.
• Time Management – Ability to manage multiple responsibilities by being organized and keeping on top of important time sensitive tasks.

**Along with a competitive compensation package, the company offers an excellent benefits package, including Medical, Dental, a defined contribution plan (e.g. 401(k)), life insurance, long-term disability, a flexible spending account (FSA) and paid maternity/paternity leave.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law