Senior Sourcing Manager

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Plantation, FL +1

Senior Sourcing Manager for Private Brands at Chewy, focusing on cat consumables. Responsibilities include driving sourcing strategy, supplier development, assortment management, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to monitor manufacturing partner performance. Requires depth in supplier relationship management, category strategy development, and leading supply chain improvements across quality, fill rates, cost, and transparency. Key skills include negotiation, attention to detail, creativity, and cross-functional collaboration with brand managers, R&D, and finance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive category ownership including supplier selection, operational performance, relationship management and financial goals.
  2. Influence up, down and across the organization to improve category metrics and supplier performance.
  3. Partner on the evaluation, design, and development of sourcing capabilities across source to pay.
  4. Contribute to roadmap development by bringing robust insights on market trends and industry leading technologies to enhance our assortment portfolio.
  5. Manage relationships with external suppliers upholding high operating and quality standards.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of sourcing category ownership, preferably in e-commerce or Retail.
  • 3+ years of experience in manufacturing in Food space (preferred pet food).
  • In-depth working knowledge of co-manufacturing relationships.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Experience with data driven decision making and cost P&L ownership.
  • Ability to travel 30%+

Nice to have

  • MBA
  • Private Label Experience in e-commerce or Retail

What the JD emphasized

  • supplier selection
  • operational performance
  • relationship management
  • financial goals
  • category metrics
  • supplier performance
  • sourcing capabilities
  • source to pay
  • market trends
  • industry leading technologies
  • assortment portfolio
  • external suppliers
  • operating and quality standards
  • cost and quality improvements
  • negotiator
  • responsible sourcing
  • sustainability
  • high-quality product development
  • Analytical skills
  • detail orientation
  • sourcing category ownership
  • manufacturing in Food space
  • co-manufacturing relationships
  • data driven decision making
  • cost P&L ownership