Senior Director, Sourcing - Hong Kong Sourcing Office

If you were the Senior Director, Sourcing in our Hong Kong Sourcing Office, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:

• Building, leading, and mentoring a high performing Sourcing team, fostering core competencies and capabilities in delivering a world class supply chain
• Representing the region in executive-level planning and decision making
• Aligning regional strategy with business, global sourcing and supply chain goals
• Overseeing and optimizing supplier relationship and performance through direct engagement, collaboration and partnership
• Contributing to and implementing our global sourcing strategy with the right manufacturing capacity and capability to drive our business growth and delivers on cost, quality, and speed to market needs
• Playing a key role in shaping strategic direction by providing market intelligence, regional insights and operational feedback
• Supporting business initiatives by collaborating with global leadership and translating strategy into regional execution
• Leading the search strategy for new suppliers with robust sourcing criteria, evaluation and qualification framework
• Providing leadership and expert insight into seasonal planning discussions, offering recommendations and operational perspectives
• Leading the seasonal/monthly PO process and WIP management, delivering On-Time-In-Full to meet business requirements
• Fostering a culture of growth and development across the Sourcing org and regional teams
• Building a transparent costing methodology with strong standards to deliver the right product costs and meet margin targets
• Designing comprehensive onboarding and supplier development programs for all new and incumbent suppliers to drive successful execution
• Negotiating, managing and safeguarding the terms and conditions of our supplier agreement
• Upholding the Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing through the Arc’teryx supply chain
• Advancing responsible purchasing principles and practices through adherence negotiated lead time and balanced annual capacities as outlined in the Responsible Sourcing Policy

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Developing a robust and effective network assessment framework that assures the long-term availability of quality products
• Building best-in-class supply chain processes that enhance our Innovation-to-Consumer efficiency
• Fostering a continuous improvement mindset that optimizes our supply chain
• Building a talent pipeline and creating career development opportunities that inspire and challenge the teams

Are you our next Senior Director, Sourcing?

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Apparel or Textile Design, Merchandising, along with 15+ years of leadership experience in global sourcing and supply chain
• You have deep experience in Asia-based manufacturing and vendor management
• You have in-depth knowledge of the end-to-end apparel go-to-market process
• You have proven skills at problem solving and strategy execution
• You have proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
• You have strong communication and influencing skills
• You have proven business acumen and analytical skills
• You have strong digital dexterity, including the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and leverage data
• You have extreme attention to detail
• You have an extensive knowledge of raw materials, technical construction, and sourcing
• You have proven people management skills; you set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it