Senior Manager, Global Procurement - Women Knits & Woven Tops
Core
Own and drive cost structures and savings for women's knits and woven tops, achieving product cost at or near should-costing while securing supply continuity.
Role type
Senior Manager, Global Procurement
Builds
Competitive costing environment with T1/T2 suppliers; AI agent for systematic RFPs and scenario analysis
Domain
Apparel manufacturing, global sourcing, supply chain
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Commodity costing, clean sheet costing, RFP execution, strategic negotiation, supply chain optimization, data-driven decision making, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Apparel/soft goods experience, AI/LLM platform usage, MBA
Technologies
Vendor Portal, Product Catalog tools, LLMs
Responsibilities
Define and execute commercial roadmap and vendor distribution strategy; Structure and run competitive RFP processes; Create and utilize component-level clean sheets for pricing transparency; Negotiate launch costing and set renegotiation schedules; Partner with material sourcing teams for upstream material availability; Identify opportunities for verticalization and volume consolidation.
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC