Manager, Global Sourcing

PetCo • San Diego, CA

100d • $103,800 - $155,700

About The Position

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics, and eight distribution centers. We're focused on purpose-driven work, and strongly believe what's good for pets, people, and our planet is good for Petco.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field.
• 7 years of progressive work experience in global sourcing or sourcing related roles, or an equivalent combination of education, related experience, and/or training.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Leadership and management experience in private label sourcing and/or exclusive brands.
• Strong analytical skills and sense of curiosity.
• High sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity.
• Polished influencing and negotiation skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal/relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• 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 the start of new product development cycles.
• Develops and provides options on product costs to product development and design staff, and merchandising staff.
• Develops short- and long-term production and financial plans to support strategic business goals.
• Partners with inventory, merchandising, and planning staff to align business needs with vendor capacity and ensure on-time and in-full delivery.
• 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.
• Establishes goals for vendor improvement and matrix optimization.
• Performs analyses to allow for objective decision making, including total cost of ownership (TCO) opportunities.
• Manages vetting and onboarding of new vendors, including negotiating contract terms and supervising initial product development timing, cost engineering, test runs, and production.
• Partners with domestic and international transportation and logistics providers, and vendors to optimize freight costs for products.
• Researches, analyzes, monitors, and reports on changes in macroeconomic conditions, cost component and raw material fluctuation, and industry trends.
• Recommends and implements strategies to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate operational and financial risk.
• Evaluates, designs, recommends, and implements sourcing policies and business processes and systems to scale efficiently and drive value, sales, and profits.
• 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.
• Provides supervision to assigned staff, including hiring, counseling, guiding, training, and delivery of disciplinary processes as required.

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• 401K
• Incentives
• PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree