Global Sourcing Manager

Petco is seeking a Global Sourcing Manager to lead global sourcing activities for owned-brand products, drive cost savings, and negotiate with vendors on product availability and price. The ideal candidate will have 3 years of progressive work experience in global sourcing or sourcing related roles, and a Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field.

Requirements

• Initiates and facilitates competitive bids, request for quotes (RFQs), negotiations, and resourcing activities to provide vendor matrix options that drive category growth, flexibility, speed to market and profitability.
• Develops and distributes financial models and reports to monitor and improve profitability and mitigate financial risk.
• Provides guidance on financial goals to cross-functional team members and others at start of new product development cycles.
• Develops short- and long-term production and financial plans to support strategic business goals.
• Studies product roadmap, development strategy and innovation needs, and develops vendor matrix strategies to provide options that deliver on business goals.
• Evaluates vendors based on qualitative and quantitative data (e.g., performance, quality, pricing, service, etc.) and reviews data with the vendors and internal teams.
• Manages vetting and onboarding of new vendors.
• Partners with domestic and international transportation and logistics providers, and vendors to optimize freight costs for products.
• Recommends and implements sourcing policies and business processes and systems to scale efficiently and drive value, sales, and profits.
• Manages sku set-up and implementation for both new and existing vendors.
• Troubleshoots incongruencies in data between Petco and the vendors (i.e. cost discrepancies).
• Identifies and drives sustainability initiatives within owned-brand products, supply chain, manufacturing practices and packaging.
• Travels domestically and internationally to visit and evaluate vendor production sites, and attends industry trade shows to identify, evaluate and build relationships with vendors.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan