International Vendor Manager - Remote

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day business with a large global supplier base across China, Vietnam, India, and other low-cost countries, maintaining a consistent operating cadence through status updates, capacity reviews, and risk assessments.
• Build strong vendor partnerships that promote transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and rapid issue resolution while continuously monitoring supplier performance across lead times, quality, and on-time delivery.
• Lead multi-round cost negotiations across a large spend portfolio, delivering measurable savings through data-driven strategies that account for labor and material changes, yield, packaging, MOQs, lead-time tradeoffs, tariffs, and duties.
• Identify and execute cost-reduction opportunities through benchmarking, specification optimization, alternative sources, and informed commercial decision-making.
• Own production execution by tracking critical-path milestones, factory capacity, material readiness, and shipment schedules to ensure finished goods are delivered on time to port.
• Proactively identify risks, escalate issues early, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions to resolve delays, shortages, capacity constraints, and documentation challenges.
• Analyze data related to shipments, production capacity, purchasing plans, cost negotiations, tariffs, and duties to deliver accurate, decision-ready reporting and business insights on demand.
• Partner closely with Merchandising, Quality, Planning/Inventory, Logistics, and Finance to align priorities, manage tradeoffs, and ensure decisions reflect total enterprise impact across cost, speed, availability, quality, and risk.
• Drive projects to completion by working effectively within and around existing systems while maintaining strong organization, attention to detail, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Continuously improve tools, workflows, and standard operating procedures to increase predictability, efficiency, and scalability; share best practices across the Vendor Management team.
• Support departmental process improvements and perform additional duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications

Strong, data-driven decision-making, analytical rigor, and creative problem-solving to improve vendor performance and deliver measurable business results.

Dynamic cross-functional involvement and responsibility for driving projects to completion.

Opportunity to make a significant impact and support strong potential for career growth.

Experience managing a global supplier base, negotiating costs, and executing production schedules.

Ability to build strong vendor partnerships and monitor supplier performance.

Proficiency in data analysis and reporting to inform business decisions.

Effective communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Ability to travel internationally as needed to strengthen vendor relationships and drive results.

Knowledge of international supply chain operations and regulations.

Understanding of cost reduction strategies and techniques.

Experience with project management methodologies and tools.

Strong organizational and attention to detail skills.

Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.