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Sourcing Category Manager Jobs

Company

lululemon
Address Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Employment type FULL_TIME
Salary
Category Retail
Expires 2023-06-14
Posted at 1 year ago
Job Description
Description & Requirements
Founded in 1998 in beautiful Vancouver, BC lululemon athletica creates components to live longer, healthier more fun lives.
Sourcing Category Manager
Reporting to the Director, Accessories Sourcing, the Sourcing Category Manager will be the resident expert in sourcing, costing and delivering margins against our hardgoods accessories products, which include products such as yoga, training, and water bottles. The Sourcing Category Manager will co-develop and maintain the hard goods source plan for short, mid and long-term basis in accordance to global sourcing strategy. They will develop factory relationships to develop capabilities aligned with their product category to deliver quality products in a timely, consistent manner. The Sourcing Category Manager will develop plans and strategies that will address category specific margin goals.
Sourcing Department
We are the Sourcing Department. We manage the relationship with our apparel & accessories vendors & ensure that lululemon has best in the world manufacturers. We work cross-functionally across the entire product team to ensure product meets our business strategy, quality & cost goals. We then work with our vendors to make those products a reality.
A day in the life of a Sourcing Category Manager
  • Build strong relationships with vendors and cross functional teams to help foster partnership and trust
  • Develop action plans to mitigate Margin/Capacity risk and proposals to reduce cost working closely with cross functional partners.
  • Ensure cost and margin for assigned category meets target
  • Translate long range strategies to drive seasonal allocation and execution priorities
  • Support sourcing of and onboarding of new vendors successfully working closely with supply chain onboarding team
  • Manage data analysis of product cost and margin, including data updates in costing systems where applicable
  • Manage category vendor relationship on long range planning, challenges and opportunities.
  • Track all GTM Calendar by whens and ensure that all sourcing seasonal calendar timelines are met
  • Negotiate category vendor costing in partnership with Costing and LLO Merch team where applicable.
The finer print
  • You are an expert in the hard goods manufacturing process & are familiar with operating principles such as LEAN, ISO & Continuous Improvement
  • You have visited countless factories & have a keen eye for quality, compliance & process optimization
  • You have no problem getting your hands dirty & negotiating face to face
  • You have experience in training and fitness products with knowledge of electronic products
  • You enjoy Excel, Power BI and Smartsheet
  • You have over 7-10 years experience working closely & building relationships with off-shore manufacturers
  • You can manage multiple projects working with a variety of cross-functional partners