Sourcing Lead

Summary

Join Manufactured, a venture-backed inventory platform, as a Sourcing Lead and play a pivotal role in our rapidly growing team. You will be responsible for managing sourcing projects end-to-end, developing vendors across multiple categories and geographies, and building strong vendor relationships. This remote position offers a competitive salary of $100,000-$130,000 and the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, high-performing environment. We prioritize ownership, initiative, and a collaborative mindset. Experience in sourcing, manufacturing, or supply chain is essential, along with a proven track record of managing teams and driving business outcomes. We value authenticity, contextual ownership, and effectiveness in our work.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience
• 2+ years managing a team
• Sourcing experience in multiple industries
• Costing experience with multiple products
• Working directly with customers to drive transactions
• Past history of operating vendor databases and building vendor rating systems
• Extremely resourceful and appropriately frugal

Responsibilities

• Work in proprietary software application MFDSupply
• Thrive in a startup environment with empowered management and quick turnaround times
• Interactively sharing progress to stakeholders
• Clearly educate customers on Manufactured's product offerings
• Discover new vendors and capabilities across industries and geographies
• Maintain and update the vendor database to reflect accurate information on current and new vendors
• Regular engagement with Business Development & Channel Partners to drive Sourcing to deliver intelligence on client needs
• Clear focus on Business / Transaction outcomes to drive vendor selection, product pricing and commercial terms
• Ensure that vendors are onboarded efficiently
• Prioritize and delegate all open sourcing activities
• Ability to drive authentic relationships with potential and current vendors across all categories
• Help shorten sales cycles from lead to close
• Understand customer needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Sourcing, Manufacturing and/or Supply Chain
• You've ideally sourced for large and small customers
• You’ve managed sourcing projects end to end and have developed vendors for multiple categories across multiple geographies
• You are able to identify good vendors, truly treat them as partners, drive price discovery with an understanding of basic material costs and assembly costs
• You have managed a team and can delegate projects and tasks while maintaining a sense of urgency
• Experience in Private Label, White Label and Custom manufacturing
• Result oriented and over-communicative

Benefits

Remote work