Assistant Sourcing Manager
- Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Proactively drives measurable efficiencies of team communications, tasks, and overall workflow to support continuous improvement.
- Assists management on the growth of global and segment-wide relationships.
- Supports manager to execute short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed categories, proactively drive the set priorities, objectives, and action plans to improve supply base and mitigate risk with
- Assists manager in the leveraging opportunities and executes sourcing strategies for global site-specific items.
- Collaborates with Quality Assurance team to ensure products placed with managed suppliers are meeting
- Drives product development management, communicating key milestones and deadlines within the sample approval process.
- Drives proactive production tracking, communicating and troubleshooting exceptions and delays.
- Negotiates costing and proposes value engineering options to achieve profitability goals while ensuring product vision is achieved.
- Collaborates with factory and Product Design to bring new art techniques and applications and researching trends.
- Support managers to monitor the managed suppliers continues to meet ILS MCS, regulatory standards, and other established supplier performance requirements.
- Strong knowledge of product-specific construction standards, materials, and manufacturing processes/techniques.
- Outstanding negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to balance conflicting priorities between creative design and cost of goods objectives.
- Proficient in English and Mandarin or Cantonese.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and strategy-formulation skills.
- Ability to influence internal stake holders and drive efficient decision-making.
- Experience in merchandise sourcing and production management.
- Strong computer skills. (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, MicroCharts, etc.)
- Ability to work on multiple projects within specified time frames.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Understanding of US and Global testing, safety, and labeling requirements and impact to product design and manufacturing processes.
- Understanding of free-trade agreements, duties and resulting impact of sourcing strategies.
- 5 – 8 years’ experience in Global Sourcing and/or Merchandising
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience a plus
- Proficiency in English (spoken and written)
- Ability to communicate in other languages would be a plus