JOB DESCRIPTION
Female founded and led, Beyond Yoga creates buttery soft activewear and beyond for every size, shape, moment, and movement from our own line of meticulously researched fabrics. Our obsession for softness and fabrics, and a relentless pursuit of quality and fit makes Beyond Yoga a fan favorite at every stage of life. We proudly celebrate diversity and welcome all ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, belief systems, and identities.
We encourage our team to be active members of their local and global communities through opportunities like Social Good Day to participate in a cause of their choosing. Like us, the people we hire are passionate, honest, warm, enthusiastic, and fun!
In September 2021, we joined Levi Strauss & Co., one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear. Beyond Yoga operates as a standalone brand with the benefit of LS&Co.’s global capabilities to help it achieve its goals of brand-building, store opening, category expansion and distribution.
About The Job
- Execute long-term sourcing strategies across all supply tiers in collaboration with Design and Product Development team to deliver quality products, industry leading fit and margin to ensure sell through and profitability as well as with the entire internal teams to continuously improve operational performance, trade compliance and corporate responsibility.
- Continuously optimize the vendor portfolio across all tiers to improve quality, cost, service, capacity, and innovation while identifying, evaluating, and analyzing new potential manufacturers against strategic requirements in alignment with all stakeholders.
- Define and own the vendor qualification process, leading the identification, evaluation, selection, on or off boarding of suppliers all without disruption in quality, service, or cost.
- Build and maintain supplier relationships at the leadership level through frequent direct communication, business reviews, and co-development of strategic initiatives, managing and enforcing vendor compliance and agreements.
- Initiate and implement programs with our suppliers to improve speed-to-market, building a responsive supply chain and improving ability to react to customer demand while minimizing inventory risk and raw material risks.
- Lead sourcing contingency planning and risk management in anticipation of local and global risks of any disruption in supply, e.g., trade, labor, etc.
- Partner with the internal team to achieve optimal product total cost of ownership and maximized negotiation leverage for products, capitalizing on the global buying power through utilizing global resources, including, maximizing profitability by ensuring competitive costing execution, choosing optimal sourcing locations that offer duty relief via current and future global trade agreements as well as end to end supply chain advantage (inventory, lead-time, service, CO2 emission…).
- Work cross functionally at all levels of the organization to ensure seasonal product life cycle strategies are effectively supported by production plans and inventory positions to align with working capital objectives and sales plans.
- Collaborate with internal teams to achieve alignment and to ensure that the source base meets prototyping and development needs of the organization on a seasonal and promotional basis.
- Ensure effective communication by establishing information flows across the organization and vendor base to advance a clear understanding of dependent supply chain requirements and operational goals.
- Develop and mentor the overall sourcing team skill set to meet the challenges of an ever-increasing complex business environment and achieve best-in-class functional excellence in all areas. Foster a collaborative team to support and impact key business goals.
About You
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- 7+ years global strategic sourcing/ procurement experience, preferably apparel global sourcing context. In-depth exposure to technical sports apparel - constructions (seamless, flat-lock seaming, fuse, circular knits, performance woven) advanced fabrication system, quality management system.
- 5+ years of strategic leadership with demonstrated ability to build vendor partnerships, build functional sourcing excellence, lead change management across a global organization.
- Market leading knowledge of global market analysis, macro-economic drivers, sourcing category strategy, supplier relationship management, strategic vendor alliance programs, ‘should-cost’ models, and multi-year negotiation strategies, supplier continuous improvement programs and Lean Initiatives.
- Knowledge of critical procurement legal requirements and contracting best practices.
- High degree of analytical thinking including the creation and maintenance of analytical tools for managing sourcing decisions, product line evolution and gross margin optimization on a global level.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating effective listening through concise, clear verbal and written communication.
- Excellent interpersonal and cross-cultural skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company and in international locations.
The expected starting salary range for this role is $77,300 - $120,000. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance and business needs.
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive plans, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role; details relating to a specific role will be made available upon request.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits or other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Levi Strauss & Co. is committed to equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and recruiting and maintaining a workforce that welcomes and respects people from diverse backgrounds while enabling our employees to make an impact. We value the unique combination of talents, experiences, and perspectives of each employee, making our collective success possible.
We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care, taking time off, improving your health or planning for retirement, we've got you covered. Here's a small snapshot:
- 401K match: $1.25 for every $1.00 you contribute up to the first 6% of pay you save.
- Five hours of paid volunteer time per month with nonprofit organizations.
- Product discount.
- Paid Family Leave.
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LOCATION
USA, Culver City, Beyond Yoga HQ
FULL TIME/PART TIME
Full time
