Senior Manager, Global Procurement – Footwear

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $147k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Quince

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Quince is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce retailer offering affordable luxury essentials across apparel, home goods, bedding, beauty, and accessories. The company emphasizes high-quality materials (cashmere, European linen, leather, silk), a factory-direct model to keep prices low, sustainable practices, and long return policies. Quince sells men's and women's clothing, baby and kids items, furniture and home decor, and lifestyle products through an online storefront with focus on honest pricing and value.

📋 Description

• Own and drive cost structures and savings for the Footwear category • Define and execute the commercial roadmap and vendor distribution strategy for assigned categories • Establish short- and long-term procurement targets aligned to business growth • Deliver exceptional product cost without sacrificing product quality or ESG considerations • Partner with the technology team to embed procurement capabilities and playbooks into Vendor Portal and Product Catalog tools • Identify and deliver 700 bps product cost reductions over the next 12 months • Structure and run competitive, end-to-end bidding processes with manufacturing partners • Own the full RFP lifecycle from vendor identification through award • Deliver product cost savings through negotiation and institutionalize repeatable negotiation frameworks • Build an AI agent to run RFPs systematically in 2026 and support scenario analyses • Create and utilize component-level clean sheets to drive pricing transparency • Review, approve, and optimize costs for buy events within assigned categories • Ensure scale and clean-sheet costing with finished-goods manufacturers and negotiate upstream with material suppliers • Lead buy-plan margin reviews to govern company margin targets • Partner with the material sourcing team to ensure transparent, competitive pricing • Negotiate launch costing and establish schedules for renegotiating scale pricing • Provide merchandising with achievable scale-costing targets • Partner with the Material Manager, Sourcing Teams, and Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors to implement material benefits into finished-goods costing • Integrate upstream material availability into product design and development cycles • Identify and execute supply-chain value creation opportunities beyond traditional sourcing, including verticalization and volume consolidation

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in global procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management in a retail apparel environment • Proven track record running competitive RFP processes with international manufacturing partners • Hands-on experience building and leveraging clean sheets for cost negotiation • Strong analytical skills and comfort with data-driven decision making • Experience working cross-functionally with merchandising, materials, and production teams • Technical aptitude for leveraging AI-powered platforms, such as LLMs, to conduct scenario analysis and automate complex procurement tasks • Excellent negotiation skills and commercial acumen • Experience in apparel, soft goods, or home goods strongly preferred • Bachelor’s degree required • MBA or advanced degree a plus • Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus may be provided for eligible roles • Equity may be provided for eligible roles • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Mission-driven work contributing to a more sustainable, accessible future • Background check conducted in compliance with applicable laws

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