Sr. Sourcing & Costing Specialist

About the role

This is a hybrid role based out of our HQ in Richmond, CA. In-office expectation is 4 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Establish and execute seasonal sourcing strategies for assigned product categories, ensuring alignment with company margin, delivery, and quality goals.
• Lead the source selection process, balancing factory-specific, country-specific, and open bid models to optimize cost and performance.
• Drive the end-to-end product costing process, including pre-costing, in-line costing, and SMU costing, ensuring category profitability targets are met.
• Partner cross-functionally with Merchandising, Product Development, Planning, Quality, and global liaison teams to support product commercialization.
• Provide manufacturing expertise in garment construction, costing, material development, and production constraints.
• Negotiate pricing using deep knowledge of cost components to deliver competitive and transparent costing outcomes.
• Monitor factory performance across quality, delivery, cost, and compliance metrics; proactively address risks and performance gaps.
• Identify and develop new sourcing opportunities based on global trends, trade regulations, and vendor capabilities.
• Manage high-impact production issues, including non-conformance quality concerns; lead root cause analysis and recommend solutions to leadership.
• Collaborate with Product Integrity and Quality teams to implement corrective and preventive actions that drive continuous improvement.
• Lead product engineering and cost mitigation initiatives, delivering measurable results and process improvements.
• Support and streamline SMU processes, ensuring timely execution and clear cross-functional communication.
• Partner with Planning teams on forecasts, buy plans, and lead-time alignment.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with vendors, internal teams, and global partners to support sourcing objectives.
• Act as the voice of sourcing within the category, influencing decisions and driving alignment across stakeholders.
• Travel domestically and internationally to support vendor relationships, sourcing strategy, and production oversight.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, relevant certification, or equivalent experience.
• 5–8 years of experience in sourcing, costing, or product-related functions within the apparel/textile industry.
• Strong knowledge of global sourcing strategies, vendor management, and supply chain operations.
• Solid expertise in garment construction, costing methodologies, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience evaluating factory performance, capacity, and compliance standards.
• Proficiency with business tools and systems (Excel, PowerPoint, PLM/ERP, and collaboration platforms).
• Able to communicate complex or technical information clearly in English.
• Experience working with global teams and diverse cultures.
• Able to manage time pressures and solve complex problems independently.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%, including international travel.

Qualifications

You are a strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate complex sourcing and manufacturing challenges. You are highly collaborative and able to influence cross-functional partners while building trust and alignment. You are detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and tight timelines. You are a confident communicator who can clearly present insights, recommendations, and trade-offs to stakeholders. You are comfortable working independently while exercising sound judgment and decision-making. You are adaptable and effective in a global, multicultural business environment.

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Problem-solving
• Collaboration
• Detail-oriented
• Communication
• Independence
• Adaptability

Benefits

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

Pay

Hiring Range: $92,810 - $136,488 Pay decisions are determined by multiple factors, including what the market is paying, a candidate’s capabilities and skills, years of experience ,and internal equity.

Schedule

Regular full-time schedule is offered.