Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Negotiate most competitive cost with the appropriate country and factory, based on customer requirements.
- Cost engineer into target price ensuring that costs reflect testing/quality requirements of the customer.
- Review all incoming costs to ensure accuracy before passing to Sales, and before PLM entry.
- Work with Sales team on deadlines for costing / production / shipping on all programs.
- Align with Design department on all development. Follow through from sample order to receipt in NYC.
- Coordinate with Packaging department to ensure packaging is available at time of costing requests.
- Review incoming costs to verify.
- Evaluate costing for repeat SKUs on a regular basis for any benefit from global market conditions, raw material and currency fluctuation.
- Analyze overall factory plans to ensure capacities are available for all orders and reorders.
- Track/manage roll out orders.
- Participate in weekly development and production meetings for all customers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree plus ten years of previous sourcing experience working with overseas vendors at a large volume wholesale or retail business.
- Experience with importing rugs and home textile.
- Excellent costing and negotiating skills.
- Prior experience managing a team.
- Modest overseas travel required (I think once a quarter qualifies as modest).
- Understanding of trade regulations, product integrity, testing protocols, production cycle timeline and logistics.
- Computer proficiency to include MS office, especially Excel.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strategic thinker with excellent business acumen and strong tactical skills.
- Works independently with ability to multi-task and meet demanding deadlines.
- Superior organizational skills with a strong attention to detail.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong sense of urgency.
Barry Graff