Sourcing Specialist

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Job Description:

In this role you will be part of the global Sport Category Sourcing team, reporting to the Global Sports Apparel (GSA) sourcing Director. You will collaborate daily with Sport Focus Product Creation, Finance, Supply Planning, Materials, and Manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities:

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• As a Sourcing Analyst II, we’re looking for a strategic and entrepreneurial person to manage sourcing and cost planning activities. The ideal candidate will provide a proactive approach to bring multiple stakeholders together and thrives in a cross-functional environment. This role is perfect for a teammate with product creation and manufacturing experience with strong communication skills.
  
  The candidate needs:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Textiles, Supply Chain, or related field or an additional 2 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience (supply chain, product or manufacturing experience a plus).
• Strategic thinking and enterprise mindset
• Ability to maintain a high level of integrity, remain effective in an environment of ambiguity, and have strong attention to details
• Strong analytical skills. Able to manipulate and shape data to answer questions, identify trends, and provide business solutions to complex issues.
• Ability to communicate up and down to different levels of the organization as well as listen and respond to diverse stakeholder input

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• You will be responsible for a specialty sports such as Cricket, Basketball Special Projects, and Olympics sideline product, working with the triad to build the appropriate source strategy and ensure you execute to that strategy. You will drive profitability by
• defining the style level targets by working with Finance to understand the Sport Category profitability targets.

The role entails:

• Creating and executing the various Sport Focus sourcing strategies
• Managing the cost planning process to ensure profitability, helping product teams assess tradeoffs between product cost/margin and other criteria
• Understand global sourcing process from strategic sourcing to seasonal execution

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (minimum) highly preferred
• 3+ years’ minimum experience required in a sourcing role (candidates must have knowledge of apparel and/or footwear manufacturing, product creation, textiles)
• Candidates will assist team with factory allocation, sourcing, and costing, so that experience will be preferred

Top must-have skills include the following:

• Excel expertise (formulas, pivot tables, vlookups, basic calculations)
• Retail math knowledge
• Strong analytic problem solving skills - how to look at data and then work toward a solution

Desired soft skills:

• Ability to influence, collaborate, and create consensus
• Comfortable working both in a group environment and independently
• Combination of skills/expertise that would make a candidate stand out:
• Data visualization experience (Tableau, Power BI)
• Deck building (specifically PowerPoint)
• Previous experience with apparel/footwear/etc. through a supply chain lens
• Lots of cross functional work; candidates with prior experience in a cross functional matrix environment will be preferred
• Will work on a direct team of ~ 10-15 on a more face-to-face level