Sourcing Manager

We are American Greetings – the celebrations destination.

American Greetings is a global leader in the large and enduring Celebrations marketplace.

We help people celebrate holidays, each other, and all of life’s special moments, in-person and online, guided by our purpose to make the world a more thoughtful and caring place every single day.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan and execute sourcing strategies and processes ensuring that sourcing actions and initiatives are in line with AG goals.
• Lead sourcing team to execute programs, achieve cost, quality and delivery requirements.
• Lead sourcing team to source and qualify new suppliers to cope with business strategies of regional diversification.
• Continuously develop suppliers and manage supplier’s performance, capacity and loading across all business units.
• Fully understand retailer and licensor compliance requirements and work with DI&QA team to ensure suppliers meet expectations.
• Source new products, materials, technology and collect updated market information relating to our products and share with internal team and oversea business unit.
• Identify cost saving opportunities in collaboration with suppliers and global business units, set up strategy and lead execution.
• Lead YOY cost negotiation with suppliers to achieve cost saving target.
• Closely collaborates with various Asia functional teams, overseas Business Units, suppliers and 3rd parties to ensure the team execute programs/projects and meet customers’ expectations.
• Bring in best practices and continuously improve Asia processes to drive efficiency.
• Effectively support the career development and performance management of the team to ensure job satisfaction and professional capability improvement.
• Complete other duties as assigned by the company.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCES:

• Minimum 12 years of product development and sourcing experience with a minimum of 5 years in a managerial role.
• Excellent communication skills across multiple job functions.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Solid knowledge of sourcing, related products and manufacturing process.
• Strong sourcing network.
• Ability to multi-task on numerous projects simultaneously.
• Proficient in English and Chinese.

• Must be willing to travel extensively and frequently travel to Shenzhen office