Sourcing Coordinator

The Sourcing Coordinator supports the Sourcing Manager and is a key player in liaising with vendors and cross-functional teams, helping ensure we source product that meets business requirements for pricing, aesthetics and quality.

Responsibilities:

• The Sourcing Coordinator is responsible for supporting the Sourcing Manager on daily tasks.
• This role involves daily communication with global suppliers to place price inquiry up until PO placement.
• The Sourcing Coordinator will collaborate with various cross functional departments to understand their sourcing needs and to align with organizational goals.
• Costing seasonal styles from multiple brands directly with multiple vendors.
• Communicating with vendors regarding styles tech packs and packaging, to negotiate pricing.
• Responsible for verifying tech pack and packaging guides for styles.
• Ability to analyze data and make informed decisions by analyzing pricing received from various vendors on multiple styles/brands.
• Product engineering efforts to build product into target costs while maintaining design integrity.
• Strong understanding of price/cost relationship of materials options and the relative impact on price/targets.
• Maintaining and updating vendor allocation for market Sampling and Costing tech pack which support vendor strategy, product elevation and cost savings opportunity.
• Assessing prospective vendors to add into our company vendor matrix.
• Creating and maintaining vendor/factory profiles in the vendor.
• Responsible for passing paperwork to sourcing assistant when vendors are ready to be added to the compliance team for audit requests.
• Create and maintain the costing logs for each brand/project throughout the different seasons.
• Able to handle data entry and spreads quickly and accurately.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize day-to-day responsibilities in conjunction with ad-hoc projects requiring quick turn-time.
• Tracking, passing, and reviewing development/cost engineer styles with sourcing manager prior to the due date.
• Understanding of product life cycle, from fibers through apparel manufacturing across a wide variety of apparel categories.
• Maintaining all the sourcing team’s charts, which are used daily.
• Support the PD team with creating and sending all "submit requests" to vendors.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years' of experience in sourcing, price negotiation, production, product development.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and other Microsoft Office Applications.
• Must be strategic thinker who can drive corporate initiatives while also managing day-to-day responsibilities including on-going projects.
• Hybrid: In office 2-3 days a week.

Annual salary starting at $70,000.

The disclosed salary range is commensurate with experience and does not reflect the total compensation package. Our associates have access to other valuable benefits that our Human Resources team is happy to share with candidates during the interview process.