Job Summary:

• Develop assigned product areas and enhance members’ competitiveness in the marketplace.
• Select products and negotiate price and delivery terms, plans, and schedule product purchases
• Ensuring optimal cost efficiencies to members.
• Negotiates with authorized suppliers for promotional allowances, volume incentives
• Negotiate agreements with suppliers ensuring product availability to meet members’ current and future needs.
• Employ knowledge of industry and market conditions to assist in the preparation of forecasts
• Ensure maximum member savings and efficiencies. 
• Review market conditions to evaluate their effect on products and programs. 
• Recommends the need for program changes, new procurement or market strategies, product introductions.
• Initiates, manages, and ensures timely completion of category reviews.

Skills on Resume: 

• Product Development (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Negotiation (Hard Skills)
• Cost Efficiency Management (Hard Skills)
• Supplier Relationship Management (Hard Skills)
• Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Savings and Efficiency Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Program Evaluation and Recommendation (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Investigate alternative distribution and cost options to achieve member savings.
• Conducts reviews of volume incentive programs to ensure maximum tiers and payouts are achieved.
• Keep members informed of promotions, cost advantages, product availability, market trends, vendor.
• Obtains required legal documentation from suppliers
• Ensures compliance with legal restrictions, buying policies, and guidelines.
• Ensures product packaging is competitive with brand standards
• Maintains sufficient packaging inventory to meet members' day-to-day orders and future needs.
• Deliver total consumer and member satisfaction in product quality
• Participating in the establishment of quality standards
• Working with Quality Assurance and other quality assurance groups

Skills on Resume:  

• Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
• Negotiation Skills (Soft Skills)
• Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
• Legal Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Management (Hard Skills)
• Quality Management (Hard Skills)
• Attention to Detail (Soft Skills)
• Collaboration Skills (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Ensure that specifications and standards are met continuously.
• Develops a supplier base by evaluating current suppliers regularly
• Maintains and develops assigned product areas
• Create and maintain a sample tracking chart
• Making field trips to members, suppliers, and potential suppliers 
• Motivates and trains support staff to achieve communicated goals.
• Enhances efficiency by streamlining existing processes
• Promotes the achievement of corporate goals and objectives
• Responsible for escalating management direction
• Create and manage adherence to the commitment calendar.

Skills on Resume: 

• Attention to Detail (Hard Skills)
• Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
• Product Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Organizational Skills (Hard Skills)
• Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
• Leadership and Motivation (Soft Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Thinking (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Partner with sales, marketing, and design to execute product strategies.
• Drive decision-making on calendar management and cost containment alternatives. 
• Identify detailed product costs, including freight, packaging, and related requirements.
• Participate in supplier evaluations, selection, and qualification initiatives. 
• Maintains positive supplier relationships following policies and procedures. 
• Investigate and proactively address quality, delivery, and production issues with suppliers
• Evaluate and recommend new suppliers including domestic and international sources of supply.
• Understand current vendor matrix and performance standards to make value-added and strategic recommendations.
• Recommend vendors for orders based on capabilities evaluations and understanding of strategic business needs.
• Identify detailed product costs, including freight, packaging, and related requirements. 

Skills on Resume: 

• Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Decision-Making (Hard Skills)
• Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Supplier Management (Soft Skills)
• Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
• Supplier Evaluation (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Performance Assessment (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Sourcing (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Manage tracking samples end to end each season for accounts/sub-categories
• Responsible for sample factory placement and request quotes by style by factory
• Review factories’ samples to make sure they match tech packs and quality standard
• Support Assistant Sourcing Manager as needed
• Lead end-to-end costing process each season for the categories
• Accountable for communication with internal and external partners on the status of production, approvals, and deliveries
• Partner with agents and vendors on concerns for balancing design and merchant needs with customers’ requirements
• Initiate and manage cost negotiation with suppliers to achieve the pricing and margin objectives.
• Responsible for the assigned product or brand portfolio to meet sourcing strategy and cost containment objectives
• Manage, track, and ensure data integrity of data: cost, weights, dimensions, Standards, etc. in SAP

Skills on Resume: 

• Sample Management (Hard Skills)
• Factory Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Quality Control (Hard Skills)
• Supportive Role (Soft Skills)
• Costing Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
• Vendor Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Data Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Identify and source vendors, taking into account cost, quality, delivery, and capacity parameters.
• Oversee the sampling delivery concerning achieving requirements on products, quality, and timeline.
• Monitor the test status to ensure the product is quality buy-ready.
• Plan orders and capacity management with vendors based on seasonal forecasts and business needs.
• Responsible for analyzing over/under capacity utilization
• Assist and support the senior management in delivering, leading, and quality requirements.
• Work with key business stakeholders to ensure and maintain agreed dates and timelines.
• Assess and evaluate the overall capabilities and performance of all vendors
• Support price negotiation processes and provide the best market intelligence to deliver cost optimization.
• Partner with technical and product development teams 

Skills on Resume: 

• Vendor Management (Hard Skills)
• Sampling Oversight (Hard Skills)
• Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Planning (Hard Skills)
• Capacity Utilization Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Leadership Support (Soft Skills)
• Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Vendor Performance Evaluation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Improve vendors' product capabilities and lead time reduction.
• Manage liability to verify liability amount and cross-check
• Aggregate and coordinate expenditures across the organization
• Work with senior business users, and negotiate innovative and commercial terms
• Support the roll-out of standard group systems, processes, practices, and reporting
• Build and maintain senior stakeholder relationships with the business
• Develop and manage supplier relationships to constantly improve of service quality and total cost ownership
• Ensure the Company's policies and procedures are followed
• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities as they relate to procurement services
• Identify potential supply-related risks with mitigation plan and contribute to procurement control framework

Skills on Resume:

• Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management (Hard Skills)
• Financial and Legal Acumen (Hard Skills)
• Negotiation Skills (Soft Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
• Policy Enforcement and Compliance (Hard Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Risk Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Supports the business in the development of category strategies and vendor management activities.
• Applies sourcing vendor management methodologies, leading cross-functional teams executing multiple projects
• Partners with finance and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, build executable action plans
• Manages multiple complex sourcing projects and delivers agreed business targets
• Influences effectively ensure business needs consider commercial reality and do not unknowingly compromise value
• Escalates key risks and helps achieve effective resolution
• Accountable for the quality and timeliness of critical deliverables and communications
• Manages sourcing calendar of events to drive budget discussions
• Supports sourcing managers in the strategic planning and sourcing process
• Prepares fact-based negotiation packages through research and data analytics

Skills on Resume: 

• Category Management (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Management (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Financial Acumen (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
• Risk Management (Soft Skills)
• Communication (Soft Skills)
• Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Supports Control Brand Sourcing Managers in the execution of effective control brand sourcing strategies
• Collaborates with resources across the business to ensure the control brand sourcing strategies are being met.
• Prepares detailed analysis and reporting to ensure controlled brand sourcing delivers anticipated financial benefits
• Develops strong working relationships with Category across all Divisions and LBL teams
• Manages buying timelines and communicates with Supply Chain, Category Management
• Ensures thorough understanding of control brand standards and guardrails
• Support Control Brand Sourcing Managers on transactions
• Assists with control of brand sourcing and ad hoc projects which are undertaken
• Improve or develop processes that are important for improved business performance.
• Projects involve collaboration with resources from across the business and require the incumbent

Skills on Resume: 

• Sourcing Strategy Execution (Hard Skills)
• Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
• Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Understanding of Standards and Compliance (Hard Skills)
• Transactional Support (Hard Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develop and implement Category Strategies and Programs
• Drive the highest quality, lowest total cost, and on-time delivery performance
• Support new product development through quoting, supplier selection, supplier qualification, cross-functional team engagement
• Assist in scheduling of introductions, end-of-life, and prototype processing with selected suppliers
• Focus on inventory management and control as part of Strategy and Programs
• Partner with Global and Divisional Category Sourcing leaders to ensure supply chain and operations objectives are met
• Support the Buying team for inventory replenishment, capacity, MRP effectiveness, and supplier visualization programs
• Support Financial budgeting and monitor the department's expenses
• Identify, develop, maintain, and improve policies and procedures for the operation of department activities
• Provide mentoring and training within the department.

Skills on Resume: 

• Category Management (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Management (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Supplier Relationship Management (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
• Financial Acumen (Hard Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Mentoring and Training (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Support and Monitor Supplier delivery and Quality performance
• Initiates and facilitates competitive bids, requests for quotes, negotiations, and resourcing activities
• Provide vendor matrix options that drive category growth, flexibility, speed to market, and profitability.
• Develop and distribute financial models and reports to monitor and improve profitability and mitigate financial risk.
• Guides financial goals to cross-functional team members and others at the start of new product development cycles.
• Develop and provide options on product costs for product development.
• Develops short- and long-term production and financial plans to support strategic business goals.
• Partners with inventory, merchandising, and planning staff
• Align business needs with vendor capacity and ensure on-time and in-full delivery.
• Studies product roadmap, development strategy, and innovation needs

Skills on Resume: 

• Supplier Management (Hard Skills)
• Procurement and Negotiation (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
• Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Product Costing (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Management (Hard Skills)
• Market and Innovation Awareness (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develops vendor matrix strategies to provide options that deliver on business goals.
• Evaluate vendors based on qualitative and quantitative data
• Review data with the vendors and internal teams. 
• Establishes goals for vendor improvement and matrix optimization. 
• Perform analyses to allow for objective decision-making, including total cost of ownership opportunities.
• Manage vetting and onboarding of new vendors.
• Negotiate contract terms for new vendors, and supervise initial product development timing
• Responsible for cost engineering, test runs, and production to achieve on-time delivery.
• Partners with domestic and international transportation and logistics providers, and vendors
• Research, analyze, monitor, and report on changes in macroeconomic conditions, cost component

Skills on Resume: 

• Vendor Management and Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis and Evaluation (Hard Skills)
• Communication and Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Goal Setting and Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Analytical Decision-Making (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Vetting and Onboarding (Hard Skills)
• Contract Negotiation and Supervision (Hard Skills)
• Supply Chain Management (Hard Skills)
• Economic Analysis (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Recommend and implement sourcing policies business processes and systems
• 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
• Recommends and implements strategies to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate operational and financial risk.
• 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
• Runs ad hoc reporting to support business needs in varying magnitudes of complexity
• Identifies and drives sustainability initiatives within owned-brand products, supply chains, manufacturing practices, and packaging.
• Visit and evaluate vendor production sites, and attend industry trade shows to identify, evaluate, and build relationships with vendors.
• Evaluate and improve core business processes and support Control Brand Sourcing Managers on key projects and initiatives

Skills on Resume: 

• Policy Development and Implementation (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Management (Hard Skills)
• Data Management (Hard Skills)
• Risk Management (Hard Skills)
• Reporting and Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Sustainability Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Evaluation and Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Performing scoping, tendering, bid analysis, negotiations, contracting and evaluations
• Implement sourcing strategies in areas like market intelligence, creative agencies
• Optimize risk management, value add, and contract harmonization
• Ensure that selecting, contracting and performance are compliant with valid guidelines
• Communicate and manage change with business partners
• Guide purchasing processes and share knowledge and best practices.
• Ensure Control of Brand supplier’s quality and on-time delivery
• Conducts and contributes to research, analysis, project planning, recommendations
• Responsible for controlling brand suppliers' risk assessments, customer satisfaction, and colleague engagement
• Assists in the development of requests for information, proposals, and quotations to collect supplier information

Skills on Resume: 

• Procurement Management (Hard Skills)
• Sourcing Strategies (Hard Skills)
• Risk Management (Hard Skills)
• Contract Management (Hard Skills)
• Change Management (Soft Skills)
• Purchasing Process Guidance (Soft Skills)
• Quality Control and Delivery Assurance (Hard Skills)
• Research and Analysis (Hard Skills)