Sourcing Coordinator (Rugs)

Description:

Town & Country Living is a global leader in home décor, textiles, and design. Our expanded family includes Home Dynamix and Amalgamated Textiles, providing more than 60 years of combined experience in the home décor industry. The combination of all three companies brings unmatched expertise and excellence in sales, design, development, sourcing, supply chain efficiencies, customer service, and e-commerce fulfillment. With our company’s diverse multi-product assortment across all home categories, we can provide excellent offerings and service to our retail partners while responding quickly to the ever-changing needs of the marketplace.

SUMMARY

The Sourcing Coordinator provides complex administrative support to the Sourcing department.

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES

• Daily communication with overseas offices and agents. Should be available to attend calls on China/India/Turkey timings.
• Work with sales on product requirements (Rugs and Mats), target costs, forecast and work with overseas factories to get competitive cost with the appropriate country/factory, based on customer requirements.
• Cost engineer into target price ensuring accuracy that costs reflect packaging/ testing/quality requirements of the customer before passing to sales and entering PLM.
• Evaluate costing for repeat SKUs on a regular basis for any benefit from global market conditions, raw material and currency fluctuation.
• Work with Sales/planning team on deadlines on replenishment/running changes for production. Track/manage roll out orders.
• Work in close collaboration with Design/PD on product/sample development (Rugs & Mats), follow ups, running changes, deadlines. Follow through from sample order to receipt in NYC.
• Coordinate with Packaging department to ensure packaging is available at time of costing requests.
• Analyze overall factory plans to ensure capacities are available for all orders and recorders.
• Participate in weekly development and production meetings for all customers.

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent costing and negotiating skills. Must be able to work on large excel data.
• Strong knowledge on area rugs, bath rugs, accent rugs and understanding costing for Walmart, Costco, TJX etc
• Strong relationship with Turkey, Egypt, India, China Rugs and mats vendors
• Modest overseas travel required
• Understanding trade regulations, product integrity, testing protocols, production cycle timeline and logistics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with excellent business acumen and strong tactical skills.
• Works independently with ability to multi-task and meet demanding deadlines.
• Superior organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong sense of urgency.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree with 8yrs of sourcing experience working with overseas vendors at a large volume wholesale or retail business.
• 5 years of experience in Home Textiles or Apparel preferred
• Experienced in Home Textiles – Rugs, Runners, Bath & Kitchen Mats.
• Experienced working with Walmart/Sams, Costco, TJX Brands, strong understanding of costing, timelines and requirements