Production & Sourcing Manager
This role is the backbone of production inputs—ensuring accurate information, strong vendor relationships, and clear cost visibility across all programs. Responsibilities
- Source vendors across apparel and merchandise based on quality, cost, capability, and lead time
- Build and maintain a vendor network (printers, manufacturers, decorators, suppliers)
- Request, compare, and evaluate quotes for consistency and competitiveness
- Track vendor capabilities, pricing history, lead times, and performance
- Develop a clear understanding of vendor strengths and limitations
- Own product costing across all programs with accuracy and consistency
- Consolidate materials, production, decoration, and logistics into structured cost models
- Validate product feasibility with Design and the Director of Production before production
- Identify cost risks, margin pressure, and inefficiencies early
- Provide clean, organized inputs for estimates and client pricing
- Maintain product and costing databases across active and repeat programs
- Keep structured worksheets and internal tools clean and consistent
- Ensure all product data (materials, specs, decoration, packaging) is accurate and accessible
- Standardize how products, vendors, and costs are documented
- Continuously improve sourcing and costing systems
- Coordinate sampling requests, timelines, and revisions
- Evaluate samples with Design and the Director of Production
- Track vendor performance across sampling and production
- Ensure vendors are validated before full production
- Background in sourcing, production, or product development (apparel or merchandise)
- Familiarity with materials, decoration methods, and manufacturing workflows
- Experience managing vendors and sourcing processes
- Strong organization and attention to detail
- Comfortable working in spreadsheets and structured systems
- Apparel Magic experience preferred
- Able to manage multiple projects with consistency and accuracy
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