Overview
Senior Manager, Global Procurement (Jewelry) to own and drive cost structures and savings across assigned categories, reporting to the Head of Procurement.
What you'll do
- Define and execute the commercial roadmap and vendor distribution strategy for assigned categories to improve margins as Quince scales.
- Establish short- and long-term procurement targets aligned to business growth.
- Consistently deliver exceptional product cost without sacrificing product quality or ESG considerations.
- Partner with the technology team to embed procurement capabilities and playbook into the 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 to secure optimal cost and commercial terms with manufacturing partners, owning the full lifecycle from vendor identification through award.
- Deliver immediate, best-in-class product cost savings through rigorous negotiation while institutionalizing repeatable negotiation frameworks.
- Build an AI agent to help run RFPs systematically in 2026 with the capability to build scenario analyses.
- Create and utilize component-level clean sheets to drive pricing transparency; review, approve, and solution to optimum cost for all buy events within your categories.
- Ensure scale and clean sheet costing with finished goods manufacturers; negotiate upstream of finished goods to secure best pricing and availability of inputs (e.g. fabrics, yarns, fibers, commodities, trims).
- Lead buy plan margin review to govern company margin targets.
- Partner with the material sourcing team to ensure transparent, competitive pricing from all key material suppliers.
- Negotiate reasonable launch costing and set a schedule (monthly, quarterly, or at trigger points) to renegotiate for scale pricing as the business grows.
- Support the merchandising team by providing scale costing targets (what cost is achievable at scale).
- Partner directly with the Material Manager, sourcing teams and Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors to align on and implement material benefits into finished goods costing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate upstream material availability into product design and development cycles.
- Identify and execute opportunities to reshape the supply chain and extract new financial value beyond traditional sourcing boundaries, including verticalization and volume consolidation.
What you'll need
- 12-15 years of experience in global procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management in a consumer goods or retail 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.
Details
- Location: United States, remote.
- Reports to the Head of Procurement.
- Pay range $164,000 to $240,000 USD base salary; bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
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