As a Manager Fabric Sourcing at Best Denim, a leading supplier of high-quality denim fabrics, your role is crucial in executing seasonal and short-term sourcing plans tailored for exporters, brands, and buying houses. Your deep understanding of fabric sourcing will ensure alignment with financial goals, customer service standards, quality benchmarks, aesthetic preferences, safety regulations, and terms-of-engagement requirements. You will be responsible for executing seasonal and short-term sourcing plans focusing on denim fabrics, 100% cotton grey fabrics, yarn dyed fabrics, bottom-weight fabrics, 100% cotton GOTS fabrics, BCI fabrics, and 100% Tencel fabrics. Your role includes communicating capacity and price requirements to meet margin and delivery targets, providing alternative sourcing options, identifying opportunities to optimize sourcing strategies, overseeing product execution from sketch to delivery, and developing a high-performing vendor team. Key Responsibilities: - Execute seasonal and short-term sourcing plans for various fabric types, ensuring alignment with financial objectives, customer service standards, and quality benchmarks. - Communicate capacity and price requirements to meet margin and delivery targets. - Provide alternative sourcing options to meet commercial requirements at competitive costs. - Identify opportunities to optimize sourcing strategies. - Oversee product execution from sketch to delivery, including managing sample processes. - Develop, manage, and coach a high-performing vendor team. - Take accountability for "Go To Market" activities and analyze procurement costs. Qualifications & Experience: - 3-4 years of work experience in Sourcing and Product Development within the garment industry. - Familiarity with sourcing, vendor management, and textile categories. - Strong market understanding and business judgment. - Demonstrated negotiation skills and networking relationships with suppliers. - Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation. - B-Tech in textiles or related field preferred.,
Role Overview: As the Manager Fabric Sourcing at Best Denim, you will be responsible for executing seasonal and short-term sourcing plans tailored for exporters, brands, and buying houses. Your deep understanding of fabric sourcing will be crucial in achieving financial goals, maintaining quality benchmarks, and meeting customer service standards while adhering to safety regulations and terms-of-engagement requirements. Key Responsibilities: - Execute seasonal and short-term sourcing plans focusing on denim fabrics, 100% cotton grey fabrics, yarn dyed fabrics, bottom-weight fabrics, 100% cotton GOTS fabrics, BCI fabrics, and 100% Tencel fabrics, ensuring alignment with financial objectives, customer service standards, and quality benchmarks. - Communicate capacity and price requirements to meet margin and delivery targets. - Provide alternative sourcing options to merchandising/design teams to meet commercial requirements at the most competitive cost. - Identify opportunities to optimize sourcing strategies using a library of components, fits, and sources. - Oversee product execution from sketch to delivery, explore fabrication alternatives, and manage sample processes. - Develop, manage, and coach a high-performing vendor team to meet current and future business needs. - Take accountability for "Go To Market" activities, track adoption rates, and ensure timely delivery of samples to meet required targets. - Analyze and calculate procurement costs, recommend methods to decrease expenditure. Qualifications & Experience: - 3-4 years of proven work experience in Sourcing and Product Development with a leading garment exporter, buying house, brand, or international buying office. - Familiarity with sourcing, vendor management, and relevant categories within the textile industry. - Strong understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgment for informed sourcing decisions. - Demonstrated ability to negotiate effectively and sustain networking relationships with suppliers. - Comfortable with data analysis, interpretation, and attention to detail. - A B-Tech in textiles or a related field is preferred.,