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Senior Manager, Global Procurement (Materials)

Quince· Procurement
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full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Manager responsible for global raw materials procurement (linen, cotton, cashmere, silk, denim, leather, down, etc.) with a focus on cost structures, upstream sourcing, vendor strategy, and value creation to achieve near should-costing while ensuring supply continuity and alignment with sustainability goals.

Responsibilities

  • Commodity Insights: Establish a monitoring framework to forecast global market shifts, raw material fluctuations, currency risks, and macro-material trends. Deliver actionable intelligence to procurement and leadership on a regular cadence. - Build and operationalize a live tracking system for key raw material prices, currency movements, and supply risks to proactively surface threats and opportunities.
  • Upstream Cost Engineering: Construct and scale material-specific clean sheets to lock in baseline component costs before finished-goods production. Provide the costing foundation for Tier 1 negotiations. - Build material-specific clean sheets for all top raw material inputs to create pricing transparency and support Tier 1 negotiation. - Support Buy Plan margin review to govern company margin target. - Partner with material sourcing team to ensure transparent, competitive pricing from all key material suppliers (we own material, we own costing)
  • Tier 2 (and Tier 3) Vendor Strategy: Map and design an upstream network strategy to consolidate raw material volumes across key material types and maximize direct-to-mill leverage. Reduce supply chain complexity while improving cost and availability. - Complete mapping of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 vendor landscape and deliver a defined material and vendor strategy that reduces complexity, ensures capacity, and increases direct-to-mill buying power. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate upstream material availability into product design and development cycles, ensuring early-stage cost optimization and seamless material-to-finished-good transitions.
  • Material RFPs: Design and execute RFPs tailored specifically to raw material vendors, yarn spinners/mills, tanneries, and textile mills. Own the full bidding process from vendor outreach through award. - Consistently deliver product exceptional material cost without sacrificing product quality or ESG considerations - Negotiate and execute immediate cost-reduction agreements directly with Tier 2 material suppliers, while simultaneously institutionalizing repeatable negotiation frameworks to build long-term material maturity and sustainable competitive advantage. - Partner directly with the Material Sourcing, Product Sourcing and Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors to align on, and implement, material benefits into finished goods costing.
  • Value Creation: Identify and execute on opportunities to reshape the supply chain and extract new financial value beyond traditional sourcing boundaries, including verticalization and volume consolidation plays. - E.g. How do we become a market maker for Cashmere, Silk, etc? Could we sell cashmere and silk to other retailers? How can we partner with other mills or manufacturers to build a verticalized supply chain for critical materials, like linen, from French/Belgian farms and scutchers to linen mills? How do we buy/sell commodities to manage price fluctuations (e.g. gold pricing, Cashmere pricing)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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