Sourcing Category Manager - Vancouver, Canada - Lululemon

Lululemon

Verified Company

Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Founded in 1998 in beautiful Vancouver, BC lululemon athletica creates components to live longer, healthier more fun lives.

Sourcing Category Manager

Reporting to the Director, Accessories Sourcing, the Sourcing Category Manager will be the resident expert in sourcing, costing and delivering margins against our hardgoods accessories products, which include products such as yoga, training, and water bottles.

The Sourcing Category Manager will co-develop and maintain the hard goods source plan for short, mid and long-term basis in accordance to global sourcing strategy.

They will develop factory relationships to develop capabilities aligned with their product category to deliver quality products in a timely, consistent manner.

The Sourcing Category Manager will develop plans and strategies that will address category specific margin goals.

Sourcing Department

We are the Sourcing Department.

We manage the relationship with our apparel & accessories vendors & ensure that lululemon has best in the world manufacturers.

We work cross-functionally across the entire product team to ensure product meets our business strategy, quality & cost goals. We then work with our vendors to make those products a reality.

A day in the life of a Sourcing Category Manager

Manage category vendor relationship on long range planning, challenges and opportunities.
Translate long range strategies to drive seasonal allocation and execution priorities
Negotiate category vendor costing in partnership with Costing and LLO Merch team where applicable.
Ensure cost and margin for assigned category meets target
Manage data analysis of product cost and margin, including data updates in costing systems where applicable
Develop action plans to mitigate Margin/Capacity risk and proposals to reduce cost working closely with cross functional partners.
Support sourcing of and onboarding of new vendors successfully working closely with supply chain onboarding team
Build strong relationships with vendors and cross functional teams to help foster partnership and trust
Track all GTM Calendar by whens and ensure that all sourcing seasonal calendar timelines are met

The finer print

You have over 710 years experience working closely & building relationships with offshore manufacturers
You are an expert in the hard goods manufacturing process & are familiar with operating principles such as LEAN, ISO & Continuous Improvement
You have experience in training and fitness products with knowledge of electronic products
You have visited countless factories & have a keen eye for quality, compliance & process optimization
You can manage multiple projects working with a variety of crossfunctional partners
You have no problem getting your hands dirty & negotiating face to face
You enjoy Excel, Power BI and Smartsheet