Overview
Sourcing Manager – London, Greater London
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
All the details
We’re hiring a proactive Sourcing Manager to lead and elevate our global fashion sourcing operations. In this pivotal role, you’ll develop sourcing strategies, manage supplier relationships, and collaborate closely with buying, design, and technical teams to uphold ethical, sustainable, and cost-effective practices.
We’re looking for someone with proven experience in garment sourcing, cost analysis, and working with international suppliers. If you’re passionate about driving value without compromising on quality or compliance, and you’re ready to make an impact across the full product lifecycle — we’d love to hear from you.
To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies and pricing negotiations aligned with seasonal fashion collections and brand aesthetics.
- Collaborate with buying, design and product development teams to source fabrics, trims, and finished goods that meet margins, design intent and quality standards.
- Manage vendor relationships across global sourcing offices, ensuring compliance with ethical and sustainability standards.
- Lead process to deliver margin managing total cost of goods and negotiating contracts analyze sourcing data and prepare reports on supplier performance, cost savings, and risk mitigation.
- Monitor the global geo balance estimating risks, and opportunities and develop strategies to maximize or mitigate.
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include
- Previous experience in garment and fashion sourcing, with a solid understanding of supply chain dynamics and the key factors influencing product costing and placement.
- Good understanding of Fashion, Home and Beauty retail and associated sourcing.
- Experience in leading complex strategies, analysing problems, collating information, generating opinions, and then proposing implementing a strategy.
- Proven ability to directly lead cross functional teams in multi locations, ability to galvanise diverse individuals with different goals and facilitate proactive discussions that align to wider business strategies.
- Skilled in vendor negotiation, analytics, and financial analysis to identify cost savings.
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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