Senior Manager, Global Procurement - Lounge / Swim / Intimate / KBM

Overview

Senior Manager, Global Procurement for the Lounge, Swim and KBM categories at Quince, owning cost structures and savings through competitive sourcing, clean-sheet costing and upstream material partnerships.

What you'll do

• Define and execute the commercial roadmap and vendor distribution strategy for assigned categories to improve margins as Quince scales.
• Consistently deliver exceptional product cost without sacrificing product quality or ESG considerations, including Procurement.
• 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 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 or clean-sheet costing with finished goods manufacturers and negotiate upstream of finished goods to secure best pricing and availability of inputs (e.g. fabrics, yarns, fibers, commodities, trims) for new categories and new products.
• Lead buy plan margin review to govern company margin target.
• 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, 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, ensuring early-stage cost optimization and seamless material-to-finished-good transitions.
• Identify and execute opportunities to reshape the supply chain and extract new financial value beyond traditional sourcing boundaries, including verticalization and volume consolidation plays.

What you'll need

• 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 (e.g., LLMs) to conduct scenario analysis and automate complex procurement tasks.
• Excellent negotiation skills and commercial acumen.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Nice to have

• Experience in apparel, soft goods, or home goods.
• MBA or advanced degree.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India.
• Reports to the Head of Procurement.