Director, Materials Sourcing

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Principal Summary ​

Ensure Tapestry, Inc. leather articles are researched, developed, and commercialized as expectations with best quality and price. Ensure that materials meet performance expectations and are delivered on time. Follow all aspects of leather sourcing in Asia.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Follow direction from New York Tapestry brand development teams on new leather developments. Ensure the target for quality, aesthetics, and prices are in line with expectations.

• Partner closely with Tapestry material, product development, and operation teams during article development to ensure smooth transition into bulk production.

• Ensure Raw Material Suppliers and Service Providers are maintaining Tapestry Quality Standards for raw material and finished good quality and aesthetics. When required manage to quickly close any issues involving quality claims.

• Partner with Strategic Costing Team to ensure Service Providers are working to fair leather waste factors.

• Ensure the Raw Material Suppliers maintain EC Vision and communicate any delivery issues to the necessary people within the Tapestry Team.

• Work with the VP of Material Management during price negotiations.

• On-boarding of new vendors as needed.

Career Framework Components

- General profile: result oriented; self-motivated; creative problem solver; comfortable with change and shifting priorities; ability to think strategically as well hands on problem solving; excellent communicator and relationship builder; ability to energize and motivate direct and indirect teams towards common goals.

- Functional knowledge: expert in leather manufacturing, ideally in fashion industry; experienced in managing 3rd party relationships and a proven track record to improve service levels.

- Business Acumen: strong understanding of manufacturing trends and innovation across a global vendor base.

- Leadership/ Accountability: ability to effectively develop and manage leather RMS; comfortable in culturally diverse environment.

- Problem Solving: good analytical and project management. Skills to quickly identify root cause of problems and implement sustainable corrective actions.

- Impact: management of $150 MM purchase across a vendor base of ~15 suppliers as well as $250 MM of leathers received at the Service Providers.

- Influence and Collaboration: excellent relationship builder that is able to influence change in a matrix environment; excellent communicator.

- Geography: Asia responsibility.

Education/ Credentials and/or Experience: 15 years working experience in leather sourcing, manufacturing and product development.

Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
 
Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.    

Tapestry is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

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