Globally sourcing, purchasing, and developing merchandise for specific product categories to meet organizational customer demands and quality expectations while remaining competitive.
Requirements
- 3+ years of product development, merchandising, supply chain, or product engineering experience.
- Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Identifies and qualifies domestic and international vendors in order to develop and manufacture globally competitive, private label products that meet organizational customer demands and quality expectation.
- Negotiates, prepares, and executes supplier contracts and drives contract compliance.
- Collaborates with each business and merchant team to drive product selection and line reviews.
- Considers all financial impacts of programs and products and provides customized, cost-effective, quality products in order to remain competitive.
- Creates specifications for products that include packaging, safety, and environmental requirements and develops materials to sell products and programs.
- Conducts presentations at product line reviews and sales and marketing meetings.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in a finance, engineering, business, or a related field.
- Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline.
- May require certification.
- Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
