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Senior Manager, Global Procurement (Hard Home)

Quince· Product Sourcing
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Hybrid (United States)$164k - $240kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior role owning cost structures and savings for Hard Home category, driving competitive costing, supplier negotiations, and upstream material sourcing to achieve near should-costing, supply continuity, and alignment with innovation and sustainability goals.

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.
  • Build AI agent to help 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, approve, and solution to optimum cost for all buy events within categories.
  • Lead Buy Plan margin review to govern company margin target; partner with material sourcing team for transparent, competitive pricing from key material suppliers.
  • Negotiate launch costing and set schedule to renegotiate for scale pricing 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; integrate upstream material availability into product design and development.
  • Value Creation: Identify opportunities to reshape the supply chain and extract new financial value beyond traditional sourcing boundaries (e.g., verticalization, volume consolidation).

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 strategyRFP managementCost modeling / clean sheetsData-driven decision making
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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