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Director Global Sourcing
QVC
West Chester, PA, United States
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Qurate Retail Group, a family of like-minded brands including QVC, HSN, zulily and Cornerstone Brands, has an immediate opportunity for a seasoned leader in the global sourcing space to join our Design, Development & Global Sourcing (DDGS) team as Director Global Sourcing. In this key leadership role, you will shape the strategy and identify key opportunities to improve the overall business performance through the management of the design and technical design functions for fashion across the enterprise. You will lead a team in the US with dotted line responsibility for the Shanghai Sourcing Team. This position is based out of our corporate headquarters in suburban Philadelphia and requires travel both domestic and international multiple times a year to stay closely connected to suppliers.
Responsibilities include:
• Develops and communicates a holistic view of the enterprise sourcing strategy for DDGS managed brands and products
• Responsible for leading the strategic sourcing strategies, developing and managing a high performing supplier matrix for brands that support the enterprise US and Global Apparel strategies.
• Lead the Sourcing team through the strategic planning and development of a global supply platform to insure the uninterrupted flow of high quality products with a costing structure which directly impacts positive margin growth.
• Develop existing suppliers and attract new suppliers who can deliver product to achieve the design and product strategies with speed and desirable costing strengths.
• Responsible for achieving financial results and margin improvement opportunities in all designed and sourced brands in the DDGS brand portfolio through strong negotiations.
• Coordinate sourcing strategies across the enterprise with Design, Buying, QA, Supply Chain throughout the process.
• Leverage knowledge of the international economic landscape and shifts in production sourcing and manufacturing to deliver a strong regionally balanced supplier matrix.
• Lead and drive the sourcing strategy that will deliver the financial and business strategies for DDGS managed home brands and products across the enterprise.
• Lead the team to execute and deliver the sourcing objectives for each brand that will achieve the sales plan across the enterprise.
• Strategically lead trending business opportunities, deliver sourcing strategies that can capitalize on trending businesses with shortened lead times
• Lead and execute the sourcing process from supplier review and selection to completed production and ex-factory shipments across the enterprise.
• Lead the calendar management and manage each sourcing milestone to deliver on time product.
Education: Bachelor degree required; advanced degree preferred.
Experience: 10+ years global sourcing experience or closely related experience in a similarly scaled retail organization.
• Strategic thinking and ability to develop a sophisticated strategy.
• Demonstrated strength with negotiating.
• Proven analytical skills.
• Deep product expertise.
• International Sourcing experience and connection to a strong supplier network.
• Strong business acumen.
• Ability to communicate effectively across cultures.
• Ability to influence within and across enterprise complexity.
• Experience managing to a budget.
• Experience evaluating suppliers using a Supplier Scorecard.
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop a global team.
Director Global Sourcing
QVC, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: QVCA, QVCB), is the world’s leading video and ecommerce retailer. QVC is committed to providing its customers with thousands of the most innovative and contemporary beauty, fashion, jewelry and home products. Its programming is distributed to approximately 300 million homes worldwide through operations in the U.S., Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and a joint venture in China. Based in West Chester, Pa. and founded in 1986, QVC has evolved from a TV shopping company to a leading ecommerce and mobile commerce retailer. The company’s website, QVC.com, is ranked among the top general merchant Internet sites.
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