Manager - Sourcing
Samsonite · Mumbai
- Product Development & Commercialization: Manage product development from concept and design brief through sampling, prototyping, validation, pilot production and commercialization, ensuring approved samples, completed milestones and timely product launches.
- Vendor Development & Supplier Management: Identify, evaluate, onboard and develop domestic and international suppliers based on their technical capabilities, capacity, quality, commercial competitiveness and ability to meet business requirements.
- Costing, Negotiation & Value Engineering: Prepare and finalize product and raw material costing, negotiate pricing and commercial terms, identify alternate sourcing opportunities and drive cost optimization through material changes and value engineering.
- BOM & Pricing Management: Prepare, finalize, and maintain accurate Bills of Material (BOMs), pricing records and cost documentation for finished goods, raw materials and components, ensuring data accuracy and availability for business decisions.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate with Design, Marketing, Quality, Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain teams to finalize requirements, secure approvals, resolve development issues and ensure timely product launches.
- Supplier Quality, Performance & Compliance: Monitor supplier adherence to quality standards and company requirements, support audits and compliance reviews, resolve development and consumer quality issues, and drive corrective actions and periodic supplier performance evaluations.
- Market Intelligence & Continuous Improvement: Monitor supplier and material trends, identify alternate sources, develop supplier capacity, improve sourcing processes and support strategic sourcing initiatives and special projects.
- Project, MIS & Documentation Management: Maintain product development trackers, sourcing databases, supplier agreements, NDAs, costing records, MIS reports and supporting documentation to ensure effective project monitoring, reporting and record control.
Who we are:
Samsonite is the worldwide leader in superior travel bags, luggage, and accessories combining notable style with the latest design technology and the utmost attention to quality and durability. For more than 100 years, Samsonite has leveraged its rich heritage to create unparalleled products that fulfill the travel lifestyle needs of conscious movers everywhere. With a portfolio of brands including Samsonite, Tumi, American Tourister, High Sierra, Gregory, Hartmann, and Lipault Paris, our products are sold in over 100 countries in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America through our company-operated retail store, websites and a variety of retail partners.