The Sourcing Manager will oversee the sourcing and production of a department or brand and work closely with overseas offices to ensure the development of new resources and resolve quality and delivery issues.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work closely with the Product Approval team and overseas offices to achieve quality and on-time delivery
• Collaborate with capacity planning team to strategically place orders
• Identify, resolve and follow up on all quality and testing issues
• Align with capacity and PA teams on priority styles by season
• Assist with negotiations on FOB prices with overseas vendors in order to meet financial goals with Sourcing Director and Senior Sourcing Manager
• Partner with cross functional teams to identify opportunities to maximize the capacities in overseas factories
• Partner with Design and overseas partners to effectively cost new products within our approved vendor base
• Align with Demand Planning teams to review and finalize all order placement for global and domestic orders
• Create and share pricing projections with international customers
• Recruit top talent, train and develop team members
• Provide direction and management to your team to meet deadlines
• Support the sourcing director to resolve any issues in production timing and deliveries to meet customer demand
• Travel to overseas vendors/factories to build and establish collaborative relationships
• Special projects as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in International Trade or Business, Fashion Merchandising or related field
• 3+ years of experience in Sourcing or Supply Chain Management within the fashion industry
• Proven ability to work with international business partner to drive results
• Ability to travel as needed (up to 40%)
• Excellent organizational and communication skills with attention to detail
• Advanced knowledge of AS40

Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.