About This Opportunity: MillerKnoll is seeking a Manager of Sourcing to join our Global Retail Sourcing organizations. As a Sourcing Manager, you will cultivate and manage partnerships with best-in-class suppliers to support our product growth strategies with a focus on operational excellence and quality. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with experience in global sourcing and experience within the home furnishings and furniture industry.
As a Manager in the Sourcing team, you will support our "Lifestyle" furniture category that is focused on the residential customer. You will utilize your knowledge of global sourcing to ensure a healthy, resilient, and reliable supply chain that can deliver our product strategies and achieve our margin goals.
Responsibilities- Execute sourcing strategies that support the retail growth strategy, deliver assortment expansion, and strengthen the financial performance of the business. An understanding of supplier capabilities, country-specific advantages, risk exposure, and long-term capacity requirements will guide strategies.
- Align supplier allocation and sourcing decisions with country core competencies, margin targets, product requirements, and capacity to support successful new product development.
- Support strategies to expand and diversify the supplier base in alignment with retail growth strategies, prioritizing quality, scalability, lead times, and product capability.
- Support vendor rationalization and re-sourcing efforts to optimize cost structure, improve product quality, and delivery performance.
- Continuously evaluate and optimize the supplier matrix, providing recommendations for development, growth, or exit plans based on strategic alignment and performance.
- Advance responsible sourcing practices and strengthen supplier performance in quality, sustainability, and risk management.
- Analyze supplier performance, reliability, and compliance to inform sourcing decisions and execute strategies to drive continuous improvement and accountability across the supply base.
- Lead strategic oversight of supplier-owned inventory performance, analyzing monthly variances against order forecasts to inform procurement decisions, mitigate supply risks, and drive continuous improvement in inventory planning.
- Support cost negotiations and identify cost-saving opportunities across strategic suppliers and key collections.
- Collaborate with Innovation and Product Development teams to integrate sustainable materials and minimize environmental impact in both production and logistics.
- Travel domestically and internationally (~20%) to maintain strong relationships with suppliers and regional teams.
Qualifications:- 5+ years proven sourcing experience with previous experience in the home furnishings industry.
- Knowledge of wood, metal, stone and general furniture manufacturing and familiarity with global supplier landscape.
- Experience in new product commercialization including full development and launch cycle.
- Experience in retail operations and metrics; understanding key customer metrics and end-to-end. supply chain to enable proper supplier vetting, selection, and management.
- Experience with supplier negotiations.
- Luxury brand experience preferred.
- Strength in quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
- Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration within matrixed organizations.
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Product Development, or similar.
- High level of personal integrity, ownership and business ethics.
- Passion for design, sustainability, and innovation in sourcing.
