Associate - Sourcing

Role : Associate - Sourcing
Team - FWD
Location : Bengaluru
Type : Full time

Roles & Responsibilities

● Executes seasonal and short-term sourcing plans, utilizing knowledge of apparel sourcing to meet line financial, customer service, quality, aesthetic, safety and terms-of-engagement requirements.

● Must communicate capacity and price requirements to meet line margin and delivery requirements.

● Must be able to provide alternatives to merchandising/design teammates to meet commercial requirements at the most competitive cost. Identify and enable opportunities to leverage library of components, fits, and sources.

● Must closely review the capacity plan & production schedule to optimise capacity and utilize available vendors.

● Would be involved in product execution from sketch to delivery, including fabrication alternatives, garment engineering, sample management.

● Develops, manages and coaches a high-performing vendor team, ensuring current and future business needs are met.

● “Go to Market” Accountability: Responsible for accurately tracking adoption rates, delivery of proto/shoot/catalogue/PP samples to meet required targets.

● Responsible for driving team to meet GTM deadlines. Able to negotiate and influence Design and buying/Merchandising partners to achieve GTM milestones.

● Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.

Qualifications & Experience

● 3-4 years of experience in fashion apparel/ fabric sourcing or product development 

●Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant category.

● Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.

● Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.

● Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.

● Degree in garment textiles is good to have.