Associate Sourcing Manager

Job Requirements ABOUT THE ROLE

The Associate Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing leads sourcing, product development, costing, supplier performance, and production execution for assigned merchandise categories. Working across Design, Merchandising, Quality Assurance, and supplier partners, the role translates creative concepts into commercially viable, manufacturable, compliant, and scalable products. The position executes category sourcing strategies, manages critical timelines, and balances design intent, quality, cost, compliance, and delivery requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute sourcing strategies and action plans for assigned merchandise categories.
• Manage product development from concept handoff through production readiness.
• Develop and manage project timelines, critical paths, milestones, and cross-functional deliverables.
• Partner with Design, Merchandising, Quality Assurance, and suppliers to achieve product objectives.
• Translate design intent into commercially viable and manufacturable production solutions.
• Conduct initial cost negotiations and recommend value-engineering opportunities within established business parameters.
• Manage day-to-day supplier relationships and monitor development, cost, quality, compliance, capacity, and delivery performance.
• Track production progress, identify risks, and drive timely resolution of development and production issues.
• Support supplier capability assessments, onboarding, continuous improvement, and risk mitigation.
• Provide functional guidance, training, coaching, and knowledge sharing to junior team members.
• Lead assigned projects and cross-functional workstreams; travel as required to review supplier capabilities, development, and production.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Six to eight years of experience in global sourcing, merchandise sourcing, product development, production management, merchandising, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of product construction, materials, manufacturing processes, costing, and the end-to-end product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated project management, critical-path management, negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to balance creative, commercial, quality, compliance, and delivery requirements while managing multiple priorities.
• Strong supplier relationship, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English and Mandarin; strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Understanding of applicable product safety, testing, labeling, regulatory, and supplier compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience coaching, training, or providing functional direction to junior team members.
• Product-specific technical education, manufacturing experience, or formal project management experience.
• Experience working in a multicultural, matrixed organization; proficiency in an additional relevant language.

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