Senior Manager, Global Procurement
Hybrid (Hong Kong), Hybrid (Shanghai, China), Hybrid (Shenzhen, China), Hybrid (Vietnam)full-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Senior-level procurement role focused on global category management, cost leadership, and supply chain optimization across multiple product categories including hard and soft home, jewelry, apparel, luggage, trims, and raw materials. Leads cost structuring, supplier negotiations, and upstream sourcing to achieve near should-costing while maintaining quality and ESG standards.
Responsibilities
- Procurement Category Strategy: Define and execute the commercial roadmap and vendor distribution strategy for assigned categories to improve margins as Quince scales. Establish short- and long-term procurement targets aligned to business growth.
- Consistently deliver exceptional product cost without sacrificing product quality or ESG considerations, including Procurement.
- Partner with the technology team to embed procurement capabilities and playbook into the Vendor Portal and Product Catalog tools.
- Identify and deliver 700 bps product cost reductions over the next 12 months.
- RFP Ownership & Execution: Structure and run competitive, end-to-end bidding processes to secure optimal cost and commercial terms with manufacturing partners. Own the full lifecycle from vendor identification through award.
- Deliver immediate, best-in-class product cost savings through rigorous negotiation, while institutionalizing repeatable negotiation frameworks for sustainable advantage.
- Build AI agent to run RFP systematically in 2026 with scenario analyses.
- Clean Sheet & Buy Plan Approvals: Create and utilize component-level 'clean sheets' to drive pricing transparency; review and approve cost solutions for all buy events.
- Lead Buy Plan margin review to govern company margin target.
- Partner with material sourcing team to ensure transparent, competitive pricing from key material suppliers.
- Negotiate launch costing and set schedule for renegotiation as the business grows.
- Support merchandising with scale costing targets.
- Upstream Sourcing: Partner with Material Manager, Sourcing Teams and Tier 1/2 vendors to align on material benefits in finished goods costing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate upstream material availability into product design and development cycles.
- Value Creation: Identify opportunities to reshape the supply chain, including verticalization and volume consolidation, to extract new financial value.
Qualifications
- 12-15 years of experience in global procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management in a consumer goods or retail environment
- Proven track record running competitive RFP processes with international manufacturing partners
- Hands-on experience building and leveraging clean sheets for cost negotiation
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with data-driven decision making
- Experience working cross-functionally with merchandising, materials, and production teams
Skills
Required:Procurement category strategyRFP managementCost optimizationNegotiation
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Quince
High Quality Essentials, Radically Low Prices
Quince brings luxury products like Mongolian Cashmere, Italian Leather, Turkish Cotton and Washable Silk to everyone at radically low prices. Shop premium essentials with no middleman.
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