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Petco · 1 day ago

Global Sourcing Manager

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$89K/yr - $133K/yr

3+ years exp

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and Petco partners. The Global Sourcing Manager is responsible for managing global sourcing activities for Petco’s owned-brand products, identifying cost-saving opportunities, negotiating with vendors, and ensuring timely delivery of products while driving sustainability initiatives.

Animal FeedNutritionPet

H1B Sponsor Likely

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 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. Activities include: negotiating contract terms for new vendors, and supervising initial product development timing, cost engineering, test runs, and production to achieve on-time delivery

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

Recommends and implements sourcing policies and business processes and systems to scale efficiently and drive value, sales, and profits

Manages sku set-up and implementation for both new and existing vendors. Responsible for initiating vendor set-ups in internal systems to ensure appropriate on-boarding and maintenance

Responsible for keeping the supplier’s database updated as a source of information for the sourcing team

Troubleshoots incongruencies in data between Petco and the vendors (i.e. cost discrepancies)

Runs ad hoc reporting to support business needs in varying magnitudes of complexity

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

Qualification

Global sourcingVendor negotiationFinancial modelingAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsRelationship-building

Required

Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field

3 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

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

Benefits

Health and financial benefits

401K

Incentives

PTO

Company

Petco

Glassdoor3.0

Where the Pets Go. Celebrating 60 years of helping pets live their best life!

Founded in 1965

San Diego, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.petco.com/unleashed

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