Job Description
Due to continued growth a fantastic opportunity has become available for a Sourcing Manager to join a successful, global fashion business. It's your job to turn our designer's ideas into reality for our customers, by managing sourcing decisions & relationships effectively from factories around the world and managing the critical path to ensure on time delivery.
Main Responsibilities will include:
- Using your network develop and integrate new sources where applicable and in line with growth plans and quality parameters
- Source new merchandise and review existing product offer to remain competitive and increase market share whilst being good brand ambassadors
- Work with on boarding new suppliers on the developing processes
- Work closely with Design, Merchandising, Sourcing and QA to steer brand evolution.
- Effectively maintain the Development plan and critical path for all Brands
- Work with Design, Merchandising and Sourcing to manage expectations and key deadlines
- Ensure collections are delivered to Showroom within GTM dates agreed with Sales team
- Monthly meeting with Retail to gather feedback on performance and analyse all act upon all problems
- Critical Path Management
- Monitor and analyse product Range Plans season by season
- Analyse Historical sales to ensure Core Category sales are covered
- Use Brand/Category budgets to ensure Range plans / SKU offer is sufficient to realise and exceed target
- Undertake initial meetings with Vendors to determine suitability for brands and potential next steps
Person Specification
- Resourceful and Self Motivated
- Experienced working with knitwear, jersey and woven product categories
- Held sourcing management, merchandising or production manager role previously
- Used to dealing remotely with China, Pakistan & Bangladesh
- An energetic leader & manager, confident and resilient
- Have well developed business, analytical, planning and organisational skills
- Be commercially minded and have a business like approach
- Well developed negotiator
- Good creative ability and eye for detail
- A strong understanding of the fundamentals of growing and supporting a multi channel retail business
- Ability to maintain strong working relationships with internal teams and key stakeholders
