Job Summary
The Sourcing Coordinator assists the company with meeting initial margin goals for all assigned products, while maintaining the integrity of the designs. You will manage production and sourcing needs for all our uniform brands. The Sourcing Coordinator focuses on maintaining quality standards, ensuring on-time delivery, and managing Works-In-Progress so that all calendar deliverables are met.
Role and Responsibilities
- Partners closely with Product Development and Design teams to ensure vendor selection meets aesthetic, quality, cost goals, and is in line with the Sourcing Strategy.
- Ensures that all approvals from Product Development and Tech Design have been received in a timely manner per our Time Action Calendar in order to maintain bulk delivery.
- Tracks and monitors all costing information and bulk execution information.
- Partners with our overseas operations teams to solve production/quality issues that may cause delays.
- Works with Raw Materials Planner to ensure fabric and trim needs are aligned with finished goods PO’s.
- Assesses vendor capability and capacity to effectively make product for the company.
- Monitors order flow and margins at each vendor and ensure monthly replenishment POs on active categories are being sent to the most strategic vendors.
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Business/Economics or related field.
- 3+ years of experience with production sourcing, product development, or merchandising in apparel required.
- Strong working knowledge of production process, garment construction, and technical design.
- Foundational understanding of global trade agreements and trade regulations.
- Must be able to troubleshoot production issues and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
- Proficient in MS Office applications.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in the Uniform industry highly valued.
- Experience with SAP/CIMs or comparable MRP/ERP systems preferred.
Competencies
- Service Focus – Places great emphasis on creating customer loyalty by ensuring the highest value of service is always provided and by delivering on commitments to the customer.
- Information Seeking – Underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. Goes beyond routine questions and digs for exact information to resolve discrepancies.
- Composure and Resiliency – Ability to deal effectively with pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, and remain optimistic and persistent even under adversity. Able to maintain self-confidence and avoid overly emotional responses in tense or difficult situations.
- Communicating – Provides the information required by others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way. Strives to ensure that the receiver clearly understands the specifics of their message and they are able to listen to, receive, and understand messages conveyed by others.
- Conflict Management – Addresses problems openly and objectively and brings substantial conflicts and disagreements into the open with the intention of resolving issues in an unemotional and constructive manner.
- Analytical Thinking – Capability and the inclination to identify and synthesize information from diverse sources by looking for patterns in data, making connections between seemingly unrelated events, and understanding how different parts of a system are interdependent.
- Accountability – Takes responsibility for their own performance and accepts full ownership of issues, problems, and opportunities regardless of the source. Works in a careful and organized manner, pays attention to all pertinent details, follows through on commitments and promises, and builds trust through reliability.
- Time Management – Ability to manage multiple responsibilities by being organized and keeping on top of important time sensitive tasks.