Sourcing Specialist
Posted by Mountain Hardwear on 08/12/2019
Job Basics
Industry Sector: Lifestyle, Outdoor
Job Categories: Management - Product -Brand,
Company Type: Apparel/SoftGoods
State: CA
City: Richmond
Country: United States
Required Experience:
Job Type: Full Time
Salary:
Required to Relocate:
Required to Travel:
Employee May Telecommute: No
Job Seeker Must Live Within:
Job Description & Requirements
Summary:
Directly
responsible for the sourcing and costing of a segment of the Columbia
Sportswear product line. This would
include managing the product process interface between sourcing/costing and
other Columbia work functions; monitoring factory performance matrix related to
source decisions; and acting as the liaison between the home office
and liaison offices. Responsibilities:
- Implement the seasonal source strategy for the segment of Columbia Sportswear product line under your category. Expectation is to execute source strategy, costing and margin requirements, in conjunction with meeting OTP, SMP and quality performance expectations.
- Achieve a proper balance between the source selection options of factory specific, country specific and open bid pricing models that will enable the product category to meet corporate goals.
- Be an active participant and help facilitate timely development and commercialization of the seasonal product category.
- Drive the costing process with the product category team and liaison offices. Utilize costing skills to negotiate prices from a position of knowledge.
- Collaborate effectively with co workers across all work related functions and departments.
- Monitor on an ongoing basis the quality and delivery performance of the factory source base producing your product category styles.
- Participate on projects or issues that impact sourcing, costing, production flow, and other related manufacturing areas.
- Keep current on trade agreements and pending trade regulations that may impact the course of our product source decisions.
- Execute operational support, analysis, problem identification and resolution for the Category Commercialization team.
- Drive data management process utilizing established tools ensuring timely availability and information integrity.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree specializing in related field and three to five years experience in Sourcing, Planning, Merchandising, or Product Development.
- Must have the ability to work under pressure, to meet strict timelines and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Knowledge of global sourcing options specifically related to the apparel and textile industry.
- Candidate should have basic understanding of global trade agreements and trade regulations.
- Working knowledge of garment and textile manufacturing, garment costing methods, supply planning, factory evaluation techniques and vendor compliance requirements.
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
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About Mountain Hardwear
We create performance apparel and equipment to empower outdoor athletes to live boldly.
Mountain Hardwear was founded in 1993 by a small band of outdoor industry iconoclasts. They saw the industry changing, compromising quality and dumbing down products to serve less technical users. Mountain Hardwear was founded to buck this trend in order to stay true to the needs of outdoor athletes
