Sourcing Specialist Jobs

Sourcing Specialist | Montreal, QC | On-Site | Retail Industry | Competitive Compensation Package

Your new company

Hays is proud to partner with a major Canadian retailer that is looking to recruit for the role of Senior Planning Analyst. Continuing its expansion and opening new stores across the country they are always looking for talented, adaptable, energetic and passionate individuals who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

Your new role

As Sourcing Specialist will be responsible in assisting, maintaining and developing the assigned product categories. The person will gather and analyze information for merchandising plans, improve product offerings, prepare various reports and maintain relationships with vendors. The role ensures that design integrity, product quality, and target price are maintained and that products are developed on schedule and delivered within the allocated timeline.

• Ensure the quality of goods through supervision of approval samples;
• Understand vendors’ strengths and weaknesses to limit risk;
• Take product inspiration and create, construct, and manage the production process;
• Attend buyer meetings, presentations and travel with the team as needed;
• Identify and propose new product selection by spending time in our stores;
• Maintain and analyze product categories and ensure the correct cost and product performance;
• Manage the entire product life cycle.
• Anticipate and identify potential obstacles and issues from all aspects of development, costing and delivery; and
• Visit competing retailers and identify product and retail pricing opportunities;
• Find new suppliers by attending Trade Shows in Asia;
• Assist in the completion and tracking of purchase orders;
• Identify new opportunities, such as new items presented by key vendors, sourcing items from other retailers, analyzing the market in identifying retail opportunities, and maximizing trends;

What you'll need to succeed

To succeed in this role, you will have a minimum of 3+ years’ of relevant experience, strong purchaing/sourcing experience, strong analystical and negotiation skills, experience with Excel and SAP, strong attention to detail, have the ability to work on fast paced and changing environment, and have strong analytical skills.

What you'll get in return

There is a competitive compensation package associated with this position plus benefits and many other employee incentives. Opportunities for career progression within a high growth and stable Canadian companies that values its employees.

What you need to do now

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