Head of Strategic Sourcing at GNO Partners in United States

Job description

• GNO Partners works with approximately 500 Amazon brands collectively doing more than $1B in Amazon sales.
• We are launching a new division focused entirely on one thing:
• Reducing our clients' Cost of Goods.
• We are looking for a senior sourcing and procurement operator to become a founding member of this new initiative and build it together with us from zero.
• Why this role is different
• You are not joining an existing department.
• You will help build the department.
• GNO already has the client base, relationships and distribution. You will help us create the system that can potentially save hundreds of brands millions of dollars in COGS.
• For the right person, this is an opportunity to become one of the founding leaders of a completely new business unit inside GNO Partners.

Responsibilities

• You will work directly with the CEO of GNO Partners, and with established consumer brands to:
• Analyze current COGS and procurement structures
• Identify cost-saving opportunities
• Build should-cost models
• Negotiate with existing manufacturers
• Benchmark alternative factories and suppliers
• Run RFQs and supplier comparisons
• Improve payment terms and MOQs
• Identify value-engineering opportunities
• Qualify alternative suppliers
• Reduce supplier and manufacturing risk
• Build GNO's methodology, systems and SOPs
• Eventually recruit and manage the team underneath you
• This is not primarily a logistics or inventory-management role.
• We are looking for someone who deeply understands manufacturing economics, supplier negotiation and strategic sourcing.

Requirements

• China / Asia manufacturing
• OEM / ODM products
• Consumer goods
• Strategic sourcing
• Supplier negotiations
• Cost reduction
• Should-cost analysis
• RFQs
• Supplier development
• Value engineering
• Payment-term negotiations
• Experience working across multiple brands, suppliers or product categories is especially valuable.
• Backgrounds from Amazon aggregators, sourcing companies, CPG brands, procurement consulting firms or large consumer-product businesses are highly relevant.

Skills

Required

• Strategic sourcing
• Supplier negotiation
• Cost reduction
• Should-cost analysis
• RFQs
• Supplier development
• Value engineering
• Payment-term negotiations
• Understanding of manufacturing economics

Preferred

• OEM / ODM products
• Consumer goods