Vice President of Global Sourcing

About This Role

Lead global sourcing strategies and play a critical role in purchasing and importing products for a leading international home fashions producer. Oversee the sourcing team, ensure ethical standards, manage quality control, and maintain supplier relationships globally.

Responsibilities

• Direct the Global Sourcing team in the development of new sources, ethical standards, price negotiations, production processes, on-time delivery, quality control, quality testing, and security of goods.
• Ensure purchases align with Company plans and market conditions to achieve gross profit requirements.
• Travel to overseas factories to develop new sources, negotiate prices, assess factory capacities, monitor ethical standards, review security, and maintain positive relationships.
• Ensure quality controls are in place in each country and suppliers adhere to Company guidelines.
• Direct the management of overseas offices and staff, including recruitment, development, budget preparation, and compliance with local laws and regulations.

Requirements

• 10-15 years’ experience in Home Textiles directing a Global Sourcing team
• Experience purchasing products in a highly intensive SKU environment
• Experience assessing factory capacity and production capabilities
• Technical understanding of textile printing processes, fabrications and construction
• Costing and margin analysis skills
• Proven strong negotiator with factories
• Previous travel to China factories
• Experience managing staff of buying Directors
• Experience managing an overseas office
• Direct management of Quality Control functions and AQL auditing
• Experience dealing with Retail customers’ quality requirements, quality testing and regulatory compliance
• Experience managing Ethical Standards within factory base
• Experience monitoring and controlling production timelines and shipping schedules
• Previous sourcing of goods for Mass Market retailers
• Hands-on managerial style
• Ability to work in Metuchen office
• FOB volume $50M+

Qualifications

• 10-15 years’ experience in Home Textiles directing a Global Sourcing team and purchasing in a highly intensive SKU environment.