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Senior Manager Sourcing, Men's and Women's Sweaters - CALVIN KLEIN

The Senior Manager Sourcing is responsible for dual-gender management of the sweater product category, supporting business strategies and overarching Supply initiatives. This includes leading functions related to sourcing, product development, pre-production/production and meeting organizational Key Performance indicators (KPI’s).

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE JOB: 

Strategic

• Clear understanding of divisional goals (quantitative & qualitative) and seasonal strategies
• Understand competition, macro-economic landscape; keep abreast with industry trends, trade regulation etc.
• Manage to the total cost of goods/IMU for the sweaters business unit
• Collaborate and drive process innovation & improvements.
• Collaborate and drive project management calendar discipline (adherence & mitigation)
• Lead meetings with cross functional/global partners to ensure alignment.
• Manage & develop direct reports.
• Onboard new vendors

Product Development/ Sourcing

• Spearheads product and raw material allocation based on vendor strategy, cost targets & supplier capability.
• Drive raw material sourcing, in collaboration with Hub partners.
• Owns timing for delivery of proto types, Collection Preview & Salesperson samples as well as identification of mitigation opportunities for any delays.
• Serves as the business-facing Sourcing lead in brand meetings/proto and Collection Preview reviews/SMS reviews/line finalization meetings.
• Drives interaction with all cross functional parties including but not limited to Hub partners, design, technical design, global merchandising, merch planning, regional sales teams and merch operations to provide manufacturing & supply chain expertise to drive top-line, profitable sales.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams on any product, quality or delivery issues and offers possible options to resolve.
• Work in conjunction with planning lead on global supply planning long lead time commits, global reconciliation for collaborations.
• PO management to ensure on-time delivery & mitigate where possible.
• Lead new vendor onboarding with cross-functional teams, ensuring vendors are connecting with all internal partners as needed to execute production.

Costing

• Creates cost-guidance tools for design teams to reference when building products into designated cost buckets.

• Maximizes gross margin opportunities through leverage, product re-engineering and product versioning (where applicable).
• Reviews costs prior to presentation to merchants including cost options (must be fact based and in line with the macro trends).
• Establishes/maintains cost folio within approved vendor matrix.
• Facilitates team in managing Entefy and Centric PLM system costing updates.
• Lead vendor counter-sourcing initiatives, in alignment with sourcing strategy

REQUIRED SKILLS & CAPABILITY:

• Growth mindset
• Must have strong soft skills, ability to influence across and up.
• Experience working with global mills and vendors.
• Good judgment & decision-making skills (with an ability to get to root cause analysis and corrective action planning).
• Excellent communication & presentation skills (to include good listening & negotiation skills, must have the ability to present at leadership level)
• Must be detail oriented, extremely resourceful, have excellent follow-up skills; using all appropriate contacts to gather information & drive solutions.
• Must be flexible and can function in a fast-paced environment, with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate and work as a team, transcending different cultures, geographies & time zones.
• Ability to develop efficient processes, review & refine; always aspiring for continuous improvement.
• Computer skills - Microsoft office is a must, PLM/Centric preferred, Cost systems are a plus.

BEHAVORIAL COMPETENCIES:

• Integrity
• Results Oriented/Solution Driven/Analytical
• Customer focused
• Develop self & others
• Innovative/Creative problem solver
• Flexible & adaptable
• Comfortable with ambiguity & constructive tension

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QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Experience: Minimum of 10 -15 years’ experience in Product Development, Sourcing, Manufacturing and Supply Chain related space. Sweater expertise a must
 

Education: Bachelors degree required

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DECISION MAKING: All day-to-day decisions to deliver into divisional goals (pertaining to finished goods).

RESOURCEFULNESS/CREATIVITY:  Must be extremely resourceful, have excellent follow-up skills; learning and using all appropriate contacts and data bases to gather information, influence decisions and drive solutions that enhance successful project completion.

ENVIRONMENT: Fast paced with competing priorities, must have the ability to multi-task and drive results in a matrixed reporting structure.  Must be available to be in office minimum 4 days/week, flexible to 5 days as necessary.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

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Pay Range:$112,300 - $145,000

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