Sourcing & Buying Manager (Home Textile, Decorations), EEC Market

• Build Sourcing and Buying Strategies (GPS) for your process.
• Identify the most suitable suppliers that can deliver cost plus, flexibility, commitment, lead-time, VMI, reactivity, production engineering, quality, reliability, on-time delivery, vertical integration, transparency sustainability, social, and traceability.
• Develop new vendors/ sourcing countries in collaboration with Country Leaders and present it to the leadership team for alignment.
• Develop and implement the allocation strategy of files per country and confirm vendor allocation.
• Coordinate with Merchandising, Service Providers, Sourcing Business Analyst and Capacity Team for volume allocation.
• Mobilize teams, vendors, and service providers to optimize product availability while improving cash flow.
• Co-Build Fabric Strategy with Fab Lab & Collection in collaboration with vendors to ensure greater traceability, sustainability and reduce lead-times.
• Co-lead fabric workshops to ensure significant leverage for rationalization, cost, and transversality.
• Identify fabric strategies between NOOS, Fabric Booking and Allocation, and Nomination strategies to support multi-country reactivity, and replenishment.
• Build GTMC for PUSH process having a global view and a strong understanding of capabilities of sourcing countries to optimize production flow, ensure quick replenishment, speed on product development in line with commitment strategy.
• Define the operational budget (volume, price, country, capacity allocation, etc.) of their perimeter with other team members.
• Validate allocation to vendors and instruct Sourcing Officer to issue Purchase Orders.
• Develop and promote fair business behavior keeping in mind social compliance and environmental as a priority.
• Define Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) approach and animate the long-term partnership with key vendors based on the company vision.
• Define and construct a global benchmark looking at market intelligence, mega trends, best countries, sourcing fairs, etc.
• Support merchandising teams to improve collaboration with collection.
• Animate performance in a multi-country environment for your team, foster teamwork & initiatives
• Responsible for claims settlement with Vendors and Service Providers
• Contribute and be an actor in company projects to develop efficiency and support change management in the organization.

• University graduate in Procurement/Purchasing/Textile Engineering or related discipline
• Minimum 10 years relevant working experience of which 5 years in Home Textile Experience in managerial of strategic role in designing, buying or sourcing environment is an advantage
• Good command of spoken & written English and Chinese including Mandarin. Communication in French is a definite advantage
• Effective negotiation, influencing and sourcing skills
• Proactive, dynamic with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A good team player and self-motivated

Levin