Supplier Manager

Bare Home |Forest Lake / Columbus, Minnesota| On-Site |Full-Time

"Build the Supplier System — Own Vendor Accountability, Dual-Sourcing, and Cost"

JP Ecommerce has been named one of the top-ten fastest-growing businesses in Minnesota by Inc. 5000 for four consecutive years. We provide customers with high-quality bedding through our brand Bare Home and are expanding into USA-made mattresses. As a leading textile retail company, we source premium products from China, India, Pakistan, and Turkey, and we have built a reputation for sustainable and ethical sourcing.

What sets us apart is an entrepreneurial, collaborative environment where team members see their ideas turn into action quickly. We are a Minnesota-based company with small-town values and big dreams — where you can help shape not just this role, but the company culture itself.

The Supplier Performance Manager builds and runs the supplier performance system at Bare Home — vendor scorecards and accountability, new-factory identification and qualification, dual-source and multi-country coverage for our priority products, and the cost and commercial terms that protect our margins. This role owns the clock and the consequences: on-time performance, qualification speed, contract remedies, and the cost file.

This is a builder's seat. We have strong sourcing execution today; what we are hiring is the other half — the person whose whole job is designing the performance system, standing up new factories, and creating the supplier leverage we do not yet have. You will work hand-in-hand with our Sourcing, Quality Control, Product Development, Planning, and Finance teams, and your recommendations on volume shifts, chargebacks, and supplier exits will carry real weight.

Fair warning: you will have real opportunity to shape not just this role, but how our entire supplier program runs.

Supplier performance is a contact sport. You will work directly with samples, cost sheets, and factory calls from our Columbus, MN headquarters, alongside our Sourcing, Quality, Product Development, and Supply Chain teams and our executive leadership — where decisions are made quickly and your system gets implemented immediately.

• Build and own the supplier performance system: scorecards, monthly reviews and QBRs, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and volume-shift recommendations
• Install and track OTIF, quality, sample-turn, cost, and responsiveness metrics — and act on them through a clear escalation path: warning, chargeback, volume shift, exit
• Put late-delivery and quality remedies into supplier contracts and actually enforce them
• Define target supplier profiles, build short lists, negotiate commercial terms, assess capability fit, and apply clear kill criteria
• Stand up multiple new suppliers per year — running two to three factories in parallel through sampling until a winner is chosen
• Write and run a qualification playbook that moves commercial, capability/audit, quality, color, testing, packaging, and logistics tracks in parallel — cutting first-article and pre-production cycle time without lowering the quality bar
• Build a complete request-packet standard so factories receive everything the first time: spec, workmanship, color standard, tests, dates, and quantities
• Build and maintain a product source map: primary and backup factories, country of origin, tool-up cost, quality delta, and landed cost under current and stressed tariff scenarios
• Own the cost file: should-cost discipline, negotiation calendar, payment terms, MOQs, lead times, and penalty clauses
• Deliver landed-cost business cases that inform where volume goes

• Run a weekly qualification and launch gate with…