Sourcing Manager – Furniture

Location: Bangalore
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Furniture / Interiors / Manufacturing / Retail

Role Objective

Build and manage a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient supplier ecosystem for customised and premium furniture, while ensuring consistent quality, lead-time adherence, and strong commercial competitiveness across categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard OEM partners across furniture categories including Sofas, Beds, Dining, Storage, and Accent Furniture.
• Build a diversified and balanced supplier portfolio to reduce concentration risk while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
• Develop long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors, including exclusivity arrangements where relevant.
• Drive supplier capability development across quality, finishing standards, compliance, and scalability.
• Own end-to-end costing, pricing, and commercial negotiations with vendors.
• Deliver cost optimisation through material optimisation, process improvements, volume leverage, and alternate sourcing.
• Lead annual rate negotiations, cost resets, and contract renewals.
• Work closely with Category, Design, and Product teams to enable New Product Development (NPD).
• Ensure sourcing feasibility for design-led, customised, and make-to-order products.
• Define, implement, and enforce supplier SLAs covering quality standards, lead times, and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with Vendor Managers and QC teams to ensure On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
• Review vendor performance regularly and drive corrective actions and improvement plans.
• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks related to capacity constraints, supplier dependency, and raw material volatility.
• Partner with Finance on contracts, payment terms, and commercial governance.

Success Metrics (KPIs)

• Cost savings and margin improvement (CM1 / Gross Margin)
• Supplier OTIF and lead-time adherence
• Quality acceptance rate and defect reduction
• Reduction in supplier concentration and dependency risk
• New supplier onboarding, capability building, and scalability metrics

Ideal Profile

• 6–10 years of experience in furniture sourcing, manufacturing, or category operations.
• Strong understanding of furniture materials, production processes, and finishing standards.
• Proven expertise in vendor negotiations, cost management, and supplier development.
• Experience in customised or make-to-order manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a hands-on execution mindset.

What We Offer

• High-impact role influencing margins, supply reliability, and product quality
• Opportunity to build and scale a strategic supplier ecosystem
• Cross-functional exposure across sourcing, design, manufacturing, and finance

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹300,000.00 - ₹500,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person