Position: Sourcing Lead

Location: Indiranagar, Bangalore

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Experience Required: 8-10 Years

Our Client

We're building clothing for modern life in motion. From workouts to workdays, airports to after-hours , we create products that move seamlessly across moments, routines, and identities. We believe the future of lifestyle brands sits at the intersection of culture, utility, storytelling, and technology. We're looking for a Sourcing Lead who can own the supply chain from the ground up , someone who can negotiate like a merchant, think like a brand builder, move like an operator, and build vendor relationships that give our client a durable competitive edge. This role is not about “managing purchase orders.” It’s about building the sourcing engine that powers everything Our Client makes.

What You’ll Lead

Fabric Sourcing

- Own fabric sourcing across India and key international markets , wovens, knits, technical fabrics, sustainable materials.
- Build and maintain deep relationships with mills in Surat, Tirupur, Ludhiana, and offshore markets including Bangladesh, Turkey, China, and Portugal.
- Translate seasonal briefs and design intent into material solutions that are on-quality, on-cost, and on-time.
- Stay ahead of material innovation , bring new fabric stories, finishes, and sustainability options to the table before the team asks.

Trims Sourcing

- Lead all trims sourcing end-to-end: zippers, buttons, labels, hang tags, elastics, hardware, packaging, and accessories.
- Build a trim library that reflects the brand's aesthetic and quality standards.
- Develop vendor options across price tiers so the team always has choices, not just constraints.

Garment Sourcing

- Manage CMT and FOB garment sourcing across domestic and offshore factories.




- Build a factory matrix , knowing which vendors are right for which product categories, price points, and volumes.
- Work closely with production and QA to ensure vendor capability matches what we're building.

Costing and Negotiations

- Own all cost negotiations across fabric, trims, and garments with a clear mandate: best landed cost without compromising quality.
- Build and challenge cost sheets , know what things should cost, not just what vendors quote.
- Track commodity movements, currency dynamics, and market shifts to protect margins and inform buying decisions.
- Partner with leadership and finance on seasonal cost targets and report against them with clarity.

Vendor Development & Strategy

- Build a sourcing map for Our Client , diversified, resilient, and built for scale.
- Identify and onboard new vendors; never let the business be over-indexed on any single supplier.
- Develop preferred vendor programs that reward the right partners and create competitive tension where needed.
- Build a long-term sourcing roadmap aligned with where the brand is going , not just where it is today.

Quality & Compliance

- Set and enforce quality standards across all sourcing categories in partnership with QA.
- Lead or oversee factory audits , social, technical, and environmental.
- Stay current on global compliance frameworks, certifications (GOTS, OEKO-TEX, BCI, GRS),



and responsible sourcing standards.
- Drive root cause and corrective action when things go wrong , which they will, and that's fine.

Cross-functional Collaboration

- Work closely with design, production, merchandising, and leadership to align sourcing decisions with creative and commercial priorities.
- Feed into the critical path with sourcing timelines that actually hold.
- Mentor junior sourcing team members as the function grows.
- Be the person suppliers want to call , and the person the internal team trusts completely.

What We’re Looking For

- 8–10 years in apparel sourcing , fabric, trims, and garments, not just one of the three.
- Deep knowledge of the Indian textile ecosystem and at least one major international sourcing market.
- Someone who can:
- Negotiate a fabric price with a mill in Surat,
- Evaluate a new CMT factory in Bangladesh,
- Build a cost sheet from scratch,
- Brief a trim vendor on brand aesthetic,
- And still catch a quality issue in a lab dip.

- Strong commercial instincts , you understand margin, not just material.
- Familiarity with factory audits, ethical sourcing standards, and sustainability certifications.
- High ownership mentality with founder-like energy.
- Fast, resourceful, relationship-driven, and execution-focused.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.

You’ll Thrive Here If You

- Care deeply about product and craft.
- Think in systems, not just seasons.
- Have strong opinions and can back them with data.
- Move fast without cutting corners on quality.
- Are the kind of person vendors trust and respect.
- Want to help build an iconic up-to-date Indian brand for the world.

📌 Sourcing Lead (India)
🏢 PinnacleU
📍 India