Sourcing Manager Associate

4 days ago

San Diego, California, United States Petco Full time

Improve Lives by Sourcing with Petco

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics, and eight distribution centers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Initiates and facilitates competitive bids, request for quotes (RFQs), negotiations, and resourcing activities to provide vendor matrix options that drive category growth, flexibility, speed to market, and profitability.
  • Develops and distributes financial models and reports to monitor and improve profitability and mitigate financial risk.
  • Provides guidance on financial goals to cross-functional team members and others at the start of new product development cycles.
  • Develops and provides options on product costs to product development and design staff, and merchandising staff.
  • Develops short- and long-term production and financial plans to support strategic business goals.
  • Partners with inventory, merchandising, and planning staff to align business needs with vendor capacity and ensure on-time and in-full delivery.
  • Studies product roadmap, development strategy, and innovation needs, and develops vendor matrix strategies to provide options that deliver on business goals.
  • Evaluates vendors based on qualitative and quantitative data (e.g., performance, quality, pricing, service, etc.) and reviews data with the vendors and internal teams.
  • Establishes goals for vendor improvement and matrix optimization.
  • Performs analyses to allow for objective decision making, including total cost of ownership (TCO) opportunities.
  • Manages vetting and onboarding of new vendors. Activities include: negotiating contract terms for new vendors, and supervising initial product development timing, cost engineering, test runs, and production to achieve on-time delivery.
  • Partners with domestic and international transportation and logistics providers, and vendors to optimize freight costs for products.
  • Researches, analyzes, monitors, and reports on changes in macroeconomic conditions, cost component, and raw material fluctuation, and industry trends.
  • Recommends and implements strategies to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate operational and financial risk.
  • Evaluates, designs, recommends, and implements sourcing policies and business processes and systems to scale efficiently and drive value, sales, and profits.
  • Identifies and drives sustainability initiatives within owned-brand products, supply chain, manufacturing practices, and packaging.
  • Travels domestically and internationally to visit and evaluate vendor production sites, and attends industry trade shows to identify, evaluate, and build relationships with vendors.
  • Provides supervision to assigned staff: includes activities such as hiring, counseling, guiding, training, and delivery of disciplinary processes as required.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field; 5 years of progressive work experience in global sourcing or sourcing-related roles, or an equivalent combination of education, related experience, and/or training.
  • Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
  • Leadership and management experience in private label sourcing and/or exclusive brands.
  • Strong analytical skills and sense of curiosity, high sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity, polished influencing and negotiation skills, excellent communication and interpersonal/relationship-building skills.

Petco is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from qualified candidates with arrest or conviction records. We are committed to providing a fair and inclusive hiring process.

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.

The pay ranges outlined below are presented in accordance with state-specific regulations. These ranges may differ in other areas and could be subject to variation based on regulatory minimum wage requirements. Actual pay rates will depend on factors such as position, location, level of experience, and applicable state or local minimum wage laws.

$64, $97,200.00

/ year

For a more detailed overview of Petco Total Rewards, including health and financial benefits, 401K, incentives, and PTO -see

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