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You’ll manage complex sourcing initiatives, make supplier network recommendations and partner across the business to improve cost, quality, service, innovation and speed to market.\nSkills Needed:\nSystems Thinking & Problem Solving - Identify the right problems to solve by understanding the broader system - customers, stakeholders, processes, data, technology, and AI. Connect root causes, dependencies, tradeoffs, and upstream and downstream effects to develop practical, scalable solutions that improve the whole.\n\nApply Judgment - Make sound decisions by evaluating data, context, assumptions, risk, and outcomes. Critically assess ideas and AI-generated outputs, consider interdependencies, voice a clear point of view, and own the results and impact.\n\nCreate & Shape Ideas - Generate, test, and develop new ideas into useful, high-quality solutions and experiences. Use creativity, curiosity, technology, and different perspectives to see around the corner, innovate and develop ideas into outcomes that create value and scale.\n\nInfluence & Collaborate - Build trust, communicate clearly, and work across boundaries to drive action and shared outcomes. Seek and integrate different perspectives, contribute ideas, work through dependencies, and help teams make progress together through change and ambiguity.\n\nLearn & Adapt - Continuously grow and adapt as technology, customer needs, roles, and work systems evolve. Stay curious, learn beyond your core specialty, experiment with new approaches, use AI to accelerate learning, and improve through feedback and setbacks.\n\nWhat You’ll Do and Impact:\nOwn sourcing strategy and performance for one or more DS Brands categories.\n\nDevelop multi-year supplier and sourcing strategies that support portfolio growth, profitability, supply continuity, innovation and customer value.\n\nEvaluate supplier networks and recommend supplier selection, market expansion, dual-sourcing strategies, supplier transitions and manufacturing footprint changes.\n\nLead sourcing activities within category planning and portfolio roadmaps in partnership with Product Management and business leaders.\n\nEstablish annual cost, margin, supplier performance and supply continuity objectives and drive execution against those targets.\n\nLead complex commercial negotiations involving strategic supplier partnerships, new manufacturing capabilities, tooling investments, exclusivity arrangements and long-term agreements.\n\nDevelop and recommend business cases for supplier investments, product transitions and sourcing model changes.\n\nAnalyze market opportunities, competitive activity, geopolitical risks, supply chain trends and emerging technologies to inform category and sourcing strategies.\n\nOwn relationships with strategic suppliers and lead senior-level business reviews focused on performance, opportunities and risks.\n\nLead cross-functional initiatives that span product categories, suppliers or business functions.\n\nMentor Sourcing Associates and Senior Sourcing Associates and help strengthen sourcing practices and standards.\n\nUse AI, market intelligence and advanced analytics to improve portfolio performance and support strategic decision-making.\n\nPartner with Product Management and Finance to identify opportunities for profitable portfolio growth and margin improvement.\n\nContribute to annual business planning, OKR development and long-range strategic initiatives.\n\nAdvise leaders on sourcing opportunities, supply risks, capacity constraints and potential supply chain investments.\n\nExperience:\nBachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Marketing or a related field.\n\n6-10 years of experience in sourcing, product supply chain, supplier management, product development or a related area.\n\nExperience managing strategic supplier relationships and negotiating commercial agreements.\n\nStrong analytical, financial and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to make data-informed recommendations.\n\nProficiency with data analytics, reporting and business intelligence tools.\n\nAbility to travel by car and/or plane up to 20%.\n\nAdditional Items of Interest:\nExperience with private label or branded products, product lifecycle management or category management.\n\nMBA.\n\nProfessional certification such as CSCP or CPSM.\n\nExperience working at a software or technology company.\n\nJob to be performed in the location listed. Generous benefit package available.\n© 2013 to 2026 Direct Supply, Inc. 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