Vice President, Global Sourcing

Dollar Tree • Chesapeake, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President of Global Sourcing initiates, develops and guides the comprehensive sourcing strategy for Family Dollar. Working closely with the Merchandising Teams, the VP provides the leadership and vision for all import product lines and categories across all lines of business. This role manages the Home Office sourcing team, the Quality and Compliance team as well as International Sourcing offices.

Requirements

• BA/BS or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of experience in Retail Buying, Product Development, or Sourcing
• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written – at all levels of management
• Ability to build bridges and alliances with business partners – managing expectations and adeptly communicating strategies and tactics throughout the company
• Strong financial acumen, analytics, problem-solving, multi-tasking and prioritization
• Innovative thinking
• Sense of urgency to quickly and decisively put into place strategic ideas and action plans for execution
• Intermediate to advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office desktop applications, inclusive of Excel and Access Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Moderate to intermediate working knowledge of web-based product life cycle management tools inclusive of work flow, task management, supplier/service provider collaboration and, management reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and champion the import sourcing vision for the company – inclusive of people, process and technology across U.S. and foreign based sourcing staff
• Develop and champion the Quality and Compliance vision for the company – inclusive of people, process and technology across U.S. and foreign based quality staff
• Work collaboratively with all aspects of merchandising, supply chain, legal, private label, marketing, store operations, risk, IT and others to ensure effective execution of the total sourcing and quality process
• Continuously evaluate opportunities to expand new resources, factories and points of manufacturing for enhanced sourcing capabilities
• Manage global vendor structure to meet all regulatory and compliance requirements
• Manage P&L for all sourcing related entities to achieve planned and agreed to budgets
• Support the merchandising teams in executing trend identification and strategic and tactical business initiatives
• Partner with the merchandising leaders to build financial plans and evaluate business opportunities by classification to build long term strategies
• Recruit, train, develop and mentor Global Sourcing and Quality & Compliance leaders
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
• International and domestic travel required (30-40%)

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive