Senior Manager, Global Procurement - Footwear
Core
Own and drive cost structures and savings for the footwear category to deliver high-quality products at low prices.
Role type
Senior Manager, Global Procurement
Builds
Competitive costing environment and supply chain for footwear
Domain
Retail apparel / Footwear manufacturing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Commodity costing, clean sheet costing, manufacturing excellence, RFP execution, strategic negotiation, supply chain strategy, data-driven decision making, cross-functional collaboration, AI platform leverage, upstream sourcing
Preferred skills
Apparel/soft goods experience, MBA, experience with Tier 1/2 suppliers
Technologies
Vendor Portal, Product Catalog tools, AI agents, LLMs
Responsibilities
Define and execute commercial roadmap and vendor distribution strategy; deliver product cost reductions; structure and run competitive RFP processes; create and utilize component-level clean sheets; negotiate launch and scale pricing; partner with material sourcing teams; identify value creation opportunities in the supply chain.
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC
