Manager - Sourcing/Procurement - Luggage Industry

Vendor Development: -

- Identify new vendors for both finish goods & Raw materials.

- Vendor benchmarking to gauge future product development & rationalization.

Product Development: -

- Work along with vendors for product sample development.

- Gathering information about new market trends.

- Work alongside with design and marketing teams to understand products and cost requirement.

- Communicate requirement and design packs with suppliers.

- Following up on sampling and product conclusion.

- Price negotiation and price closing with vendor.

- Evaluating quality of product based on Raw Material & suggest for meeting quality standards.

- Coordination / quality and Delivery timelines.

- Coordinate with supplier about Raw material & finish goods quality for new developments.

- Communicate & resolve quality issue as and when arises.

- Coordinate with various departments to meet on time product launch date.

- Knowledge of Bill of Material

- Product Value engineering to meet cost target

- Multi Country, multi team coordination.

CANDIDATE REQUIRED :-

- Engineering & MBA preferably .

Experience Requirements :-

- 10+ years- experience in handling sourcing activity.

- Knowledge of vendor development & management, costing & negotiation with vendors.

- Understand product development.

- Sensitive to costing.

- Multi-tasking and multi coordination.