International Vendor Manager
About The Position
The International Vendor Manager maintains negotiation and execution while managing a global supplier base to drive competitive costs, maintain production and shipment schedules, and ensure on-time delivery without compromising quality. This role partners closely with Merchandising, Quality, Planning/Inventory, Logistics, and Finance to balance speed, cost, and risk across the business. The position requires strong, data-driven decision-making, analytical rigor, and creative problem-solving to improve vendor performance and deliver measurable business results. With dynamic cross-functional involvement and responsibility for driving projects to completion, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact and supports strong potential for career growth.
Requirements
- Strong, data-driven decision-making
- Analytical rigor
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to drive projects to completion
- Strong organization skills
- Attention to detail
- Execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing a global supplier base
- Experience in cost negotiations
- Experience with international travel
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day business with a large global supplier base across China, Vietnam, India, and other low-cost countries, maintaining a consistent operating cadence through status updates, capacity reviews, and risk assessments.
- Build strong vendor partnerships that promote transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and rapid issue resolution while continuously monitoring supplier performance across lead times, quality, and on-time delivery.
- Lead multi-round cost negotiations across a large spend portfolio, delivering measurable savings through data-driven strategies that account for labor and material changes, yield, packaging, MOQs, lead-time tradeoffs, tariffs, and duties.
- Identify and execute cost-reduction opportunities through benchmarking, specification optimization, alternative sourcing, and informed commercial decision-making.
- Own production execution by tracking critical-path milestones, factory capacity, material readiness, and shipment schedules to ensure finished goods are delivered on time to port.
- Proactively identify risks, escalate issues early, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions to resolve delays, shortages, capacity constraints, and documentation challenges.
- Analyze data related to shipments, production capacity, purchasing plans, cost negotiations, tariffs, and duties to deliver accurate, decision-ready reporting and business insights on demand.
- Partner closely with Merchandising, Quality, Planning/Inventory, Logistics, and Finance to align priorities, manage tradeoffs, and ensure decisions reflect total enterprise impact across cost, speed, availability, quality, and risk.
- Drive projects to completion by working effectively within and around existing systems while maintaining strong organization, attention to detail, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Continuously improve tools, workflows, and standard operating procedures to increase predictability, efficiency, and scalability; share best practices across the Vendor Management team.
- Travel internationally as needed to strengthen vendor relationships and drive results.
- Support departmental process improvements and perform additional duties as assigned by management.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- 401k plan
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Paid time off up to 236 hours per year (inclusive of PTO, floating holidays, and paid holidays)
- Paid sick time up to 80 hours per year unless otherwise required by law
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
