Sourcing Manager - KBM (Kids, Baby and Maternity)

3 weeks, 1 day ago
Full-time
Lead
Product Management
Quince

Quince

Quince challenges the notion that quality comes at a high price. They aim to provide products of equal or superior quality to luxury brands at significantly lower prices by eliminating middlemen and overseeing every aspect of production. Their goods ar...

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods
51-250
Founded 2018
$64M raised

Description

  • Scout vendor partners in APAC who can manufacture high-quality products with fast production lead times.
  • Pitch, onboard, and evaluate vendor partners through an initial test period with clear scaling criteria.
  • Drive excellence in partner operations for existing supplier relationships across current Quince categories.
  • Expand the supply base while improving product costs, quality, and commercial terms.
  • Act as an ambassador to partners and deepen supplier relationships through ongoing collaboration.
  • Improve launch performance by increasing hit rates across reviews, returns, and sales.
  • Identify bottlenecks in product development and propose solutions to speed up development times.
  • Work with vendors and US partners to co-build fabric strategy and support rationalization and cost leverage.
  • Analyze and scrutinize vendor quotations, including fabric cost, materials, trims, labor, packaging, overhead, and logistics.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of sourcing and merchandising experience in Kids, Babies, and Maternity apparel categories with high-end national brands in the United States.
  • Proven ability to work as a self-starter and independent learner who adapts quickly to new challenges.
  • Exceptional attention to detail with a data-driven approach to decision-making and problem-solving.
  • Strong analytical mindset focused on execution, process improvement, and brand enhancement.
  • Deep understanding of the product development process and bringing new products to market quickly through factory and vendor expertise.
  • Ability to identify suppliers with strength in cost, flexibility, commitment, lead time, reactivity, production engineering, quality, reliability, on-time delivery, vertical integration, transparency, sustainability, social responsibility, and traceability.
  • Experience co-building fabric strategy with vendors and US partners to improve leverage, rationalization, cost, and transversality.
  • Ability to rigorously analyze vendor quotations across fabric, materials, trims, labor, packaging, overhead, and logistics costs.
  • Continuous learning mindset with curiosity, adaptability, and openness to new perspectives.
  • Background in supply chain management or operations, with strong interpersonal, written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Benefits

  • Mission-driven work at a company reshaping retail and sustainable commerce.
  • Opportunity to work with talented colleagues on meaningful, high-impact challenges.
  • Equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination protections.
  • Reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
  • Employment contingent on successful completion of a background check.
  • Secure and legitimate recruiting practices, including official communication channels and protected handling of personal information.

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