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As the leading destination for creating and celebrating in North America, we operate over 1,300 stores in 49 states and Canada and online at Michaels.com and Michaels.ca. The Michaels Companies, Inc. also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, Michaels is the best place for all things creative. For more information, please visit www.michaels.com.\nAt Michaels, we prioritize the wellbeing of our teams by providing robust benefits for both full-time and part-time Team Members. Our benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), paid time off, tuition assistance, generous employee discounts, and much more. For more information, visit mikbenefits.com.\nMichaels is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are here for all Team Members and all customers to create, innovate and be better together.\nThis position is responsible for supporting the execution and improvement of end-to-end best practices in Global Sourcing for assigned product categories. This role is accountable for supporting the development and management of vendors, as well as maintaining existing vendor relationships and driving projects to ensure that vendors meet or exceed their contractual obligations by delivering innovative, quality products on time.Assist the team in Sourcing Process Execution and Vendor Management\n\nExecute and improve the end-to-end sourcing processes including vendor management, price negotiation, product development and sample assessment to meet the on-time delivery, quality and commercial KPIs\nSource and develop potential vendors as well as drive a respectful and collaborative vendor relationship with existing vendors to ensure they meet all company’s requirements including value, quality and innovation.\nLiaise with various parties in sample handling, order management, laboratory testing, packaging artwork creation and approval processes.\nSupport on Request for Proposal, category costing bids and product development independently in conjunction with and product development and sourcing teams.\nAssists in product development trip, sourcing trip and finalization events to ensure its smooth arrangement\nExecute order management to ensure accuracy of database; Monitor and regular update on project status of assigned product categories.\nPerform data entry and provide other administrative support in the team; Support ad hoc assignments and projects if necessary.\nMinimum Education\nDegree/Associate Degree/Diploma holder in Merchandising/ Business Management or related discipline\nMinimum Special Certifications or Technical Skills\nHands-on computer knowledge in MS word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point & Chinese Word Processing\nMinimum Type of Experience the Job Requires\nMinimum 1 year’s work experience\nOther\nEnergetic, self-motivated, detail-oriented and independent working style\nSets good example for collaborating with others\nGood communication and interpersonal skills\nEager to work in a team in order to achieve best results\nThe ability to work in a demanding but collegial, team-oriented environment. Good command of both written and spoken English and Mandarin\nUp to 15% travel\nPreferred Type of Experience the Job Requires\nBasic sourcing experiencegained from US buying office/ retailer is preferable\nApplicants in the U.S. and Canada must satisfy federal, state, provincial and local legal requirements of the job.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3559,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"associate","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Home Decor","Arts, Crafts & Hobby Supplies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T07:23:39Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T09:10:51Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/michaels-associate-sourcing-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/michaels-associate-sourcing-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T09:10:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15089,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3018631},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3018631"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmichaels-associate-sourcing-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmichaels-associate-sourcing-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmichaels-associate-sourcing-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/michaels-associate-sourcing-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmichaels-associate-sourcing-specialist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4059374}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"michaels.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4059374},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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