Role & responsibilities

- Strategic Sourcing & Sustainability: Implement and adhere to long-term sourcing and sustainability strategies that align with organizational growth, profitability, and environmental/social goals.
- Vendor Management & Development: Identify, onboard, and manage strategic vendor partners; drive vendor consolidation and ensure capacity utilization, compliance, and capability development.
- Cost & Margin Optimization: Lead season-on-season cost negotiations and margin improvement initiatives, including driving PCMRP goals and end-to-end cost visibility.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Design, Category, Planning, Buying, and Technical teams to ensure alignment on product development, approvals, and timelines.
- Product Development & Sampling: Drive the sample-to-tech pack process, ensuring timely fit approvals, PP meetings, fabric inwards, and sample readiness for buying decisions.
- Operational Excellence:



Ensure strict adherence to SOPs, Ways of Working, and weekly ORMs; implement sourcing policies based on international best practices.
- Risk & Compliance Management: Identify key sourcing risks and develop mitigation plans; ensure vendor compliance with quality, social, and environmental standards.
- Order Management & Execution: Ensure timely PO creation, manage daily PO-related issues, and maintain visibility over production and shipment timelines.
- Performance Monitoring & Improvement: Track vendor performance across key KPIs; provide structured feedback, drive corrective actions, and foster continuous improvement.

Market Responsiveness: Enable agile sourcing practices that support faster response to market trends, rapid reordering, and minimization of return due to quality issues.

📌 Assistant Sourcing Manager - Menswear (Mumbai)
🏢 OWND! - Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail
📍 Mumbai