At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead supply chain strategy, drive savings, and optimise product costs.
- Company: Leading window furnishings business with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Autonomy to influence sourcing strategy and develop supplier relationships.
- Other info: Opportunity for continuous improvement and strategic project involvement.
- Why this job: Make a genuine commercial impact and drive significant cost efficiencies.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in supply chain leadership, strong analytical skills, and team management.
The predicted salary is between 55350 - 67650 $ per year.
- Supply Chain, Sourcing & Product Costing Manager (Window Furnishings)
- Supply Chain, Sourcing & Product Costing Manager
Lead strategy. Drive savings. Shape the future of supply chain.
Our client, a leading window furnishings business, is seeking an experienced and commercially driven Supply Chain, Sourcing & Product Costing Manager to lead their end-to-end procurement and supply chain function.
This is a senior leadership opportunity for a strategic thinker who can combine supplier management, sourcing, product costing, NPD and commercial optimisation to deliver measurable results.
The Opportunity
Reporting into senior leadership, you will play a key role in developing and executing supply chain strategy, strengthening supplier networks, optimising product costs and supporting new product development.
A key focus of the role will be delivering cost savings through strategic sourcing, product innovation, component optimisation and supplier development.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead purchasing and sourcing optimisation across the business
- Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and supplier negotiations
- Identify and deliver significant cost-saving opportunities
- Lead NPD programs, including product and component sourcing, COGS optimisation and supplier/product R&D, qualification and validation
- Conduct annual and ad-hoc product cost and pricing reviews
- Manage and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs), including new and enhanced BOMs
- Maintain fabric grouping and customer pricing structures
- Update and publish customer price lists
- Support inventory management and product sourcing when required
- Work closely with manufacturing to identify operational challenges and implement product and supplier improvements
- Manage the end-to-end introduction of new fabrics and products, including customer swatching and system updates
- Resolve internal and external stakeholder issues effectively
- Lead and contribute to continuous improvement and other strategic projects
About You
You will be a commercially minded supply chain professional with a strong understanding of procurement, sourcing, product costing and manufacturing environments.
You'll ideally bring
- 5+ years' experience in a similar supply chain, sourcing, procurement or product-focused leadership role
- Strong team management and leadership capability
- Proven experience in forward planning and stock management
- Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail
- A naturally inquisitive and improvement-focused mindset
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under pressure
- Strong problem-solving and resolution management capabilities
- Advanced computer skills, particularly Excel
- The ability to understand technical and mechanical concepts
- Demonstrated success delivering measurable improvements and cost savings
- Product and/or industry knowledge, ideally within manufacturing or window furnishings
- Experience with product costing, NPD and project management
- A qualification in Supply Chain Management, Product Costing, NPD, Project Management or a related discipline will be highly regarded.
Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to make a genuine commercial impact.
You'll have the autonomy to influence sourcing strategy, develop supplier relationships, drive innovation and deliver significant cost efficiencies across the business.
If you're a strategic supply chain leader who enjoys finding better ways to source, manufacture and deliver products, we'd love to hear from you.
Supply Chain, Sourcing & Product Costing Manager (Window Furnishings) employer: Excel Recruitment
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