Sourcing Specialist

You will be joining our Founders office/SCM team as an Associate, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring cost-effective sourcing of garments. Your responsibilities will include evaluating vendor capabilities, negotiating costs, and supporting better vendor allocation strategies. The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong interest in fashion and supply chains, along with a data-driven mindset to drive measurable improvements in sourcing outcomes. Your main responsibilities will revolve around Garment Costing & Analysis. This will involve assisting in evaluating garment cost breakdown for new and existing styles, analyzing cost components to identify cost-saving opportunities, defining cost benchmarks across vendors, and developing Excel dashboards for cost tracking and vendor scoring. Additionally, you will be involved in Vendor Evaluation & Sourcing Strategy tasks. This will include organizing and analyzing vendor data, assisting in vendor performance analysis, and maintaining allocation trackers and dashboards for internal reporting. You will also contribute to Order Allocation & Planning by organizing and analyzing data for past orders, assisting in identifying allocation strategies, and maintaining allocation trackers for internal reporting. Furthermore, you will work on Cost Optimization Initiatives by identifying cost-saving opportunities, participating in discussions with vendors to negotiate costs, and preparing data reports and presentations for internal cost review meetings. Your role will also involve Process Improvement, where you will support in identifying bottlenecks or inefficiencies in current costing and sourcing workflows, propose and test process enhancements, and contribute to SOP creation for costing, order allocation, and vendor engagement workflows. To be successful in this role, you should have a Bachelor's degree in Fashion Technology, Apparel Merchandising, Textile Engineering, or related fields, along with 2-3 years of experience in sourcing, costing, or production. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, good understanding of garment construction and textile terminology, and comfort working with large datasets are essential. Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, good communication skills, and eagerness to learn and collaborate will be valuable assets in this role.,