Assistant Sourcing Manager
Bealls
Assistant Sourcing Manager
Bealls
Operates family-owned regional department store chain
WHY JOIN BEALLS?
At Bealls Inc., we've spent 111 years delivering brands, style, and value while creating exceptional experiences for our guests. As a family-owned, leading off-price retailer with more than 650 stores across 23 states, we remain committed to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and communities.
We believe success is built through innovation, teamwork, and collaboration across our organization. We offer opportunities to build skills, grow careers, and make meaningful contributions in a supportive environment where people are valued and empowered to succeed.
Assistant Sourcing Manager
FUNCTION\:
Coordinate global and domestic sourcing efforts to balance the diverse needs of our growing exclusive brand products, in both volume and complexity.Support negotiations to achieve targeted value and profitability.Leverage buying power with a focused supplier network.Ensure speed-to-market delivery through a targeted time and action calendar.Liaise communications with suppliers, design teams, import production teams, merchant teams, and key stakeholders to drive the highest quality product according to specification, delivery, and costing expectations.Collaborate with cross-functional product development teams.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES [ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS]
·Executes cross-functional international and domestic sourcing strategies for assigned product categories.
·Monitors and researches global market conditions that impact the supply chain, including tariffs, social compliance requirements, freight challenges, international labor costs, and raw material pricing.
·Supports supplier negotiations and cost management initiatives to achieve targeted value across fabrics, CMT, freight, duty, and testing expenses.
·Facilitates creation and maintenance of order worksheets to ensure accuracy of style information, product descriptions, landed costs, sizing, pre-packs, FOB origin, and other key product data.
·Manages the product development lifecycle in partnership with Design and Technical Design teams, coordinating with suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve key milestones and ensure effective execution.
·Oversees the product approval process from pre-production (PP) through top of production (TOP), including lab dips, bulk submissions, strike-offs, handlooms, trims, labeling, and packaging.
·Ensures on-time delivery by proactively managing production timelines, resolving issues, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to address purchase order revisions, canceled orders, and delayed shipments.
·Partners with internal departments to ensure accurate duty classification in accordance with the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS).
·Supports supplier compliance initiatives and reinforces company standards related to human rights, labor laws, workplace health and safety, and ethical sourcing practices.
QUALIFICATIONS
·Bachelor’s degree
·Experience in sourcing or Product Development preferred
·Strong knowledge of global supply chains and the factors that influence cost, quality, delivery, and risk
·Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to translate information into actionable insights
·Comfortable adopting and utilizing AI-driven tools and digital technologies to increase efficiency, improve accuracy, and support innovation across business processes
·Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
·Strategic thinking, sound judgment, and strong organizational and problem-solving capabilities.
·Demonstrated project management skills with a proactive, self-directed approach
·Ability to collaborate and coordinate effectively across multiple internal and external business partners
·Strong sense of urgency and the ability to develop solutions under tight deadlines
·Comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities may evolve
For more information, check out\:
www.beallsinc.com
www.bealls.com
www.homecentric.com
www.beallsflorida.com
WHY JOIN BEALLS?
At Bealls Inc., we've spent 111 years delivering brands, style, and value while creating exceptional experiences for our guests. As a family-owned, leading off-price retailer with more than 650 stores across 23 states, we remain committed to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and communities.
We believe success is built through innovation, teamwork, and collaboration across our organization. We offer opportunities to build skills, grow careers, and make meaningful contributions in a supportive environment where people are valued and empowered to succeed.
Assistant Sourcing Manager
FUNCTION\:
Coordinate global and domestic sourcing efforts to balance the diverse needs of our growing exclusive brand products, in both volume and complexity.Support negotiations to achieve targeted value and profitability.Leverage buying power with a focused supplier network.Ensure speed-to-market delivery through a targeted time and action calendar.Liaise communications with suppliers, design teams, import production teams, merchant teams, and key stakeholders to drive the highest quality product according to specification, delivery, and costing expectations.Collaborate with cross-functional product development teams.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES [ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS]
·Executes cross-functional international and domestic sourcing strategies for assigned product categories.
·Monitors and researches global market conditions that impact the supply chain, including tariffs, social compliance requirements, freight challenges, international labor costs, and raw material pricing.
·Supports supplier negotiations and cost management initiatives to achieve targeted value across fabrics, CMT, freight, duty, and testing expenses.
·Facilitates creation and maintenance of order worksheets to ensure accuracy of style information, product descriptions, landed costs, sizing, pre-packs, FOB origin, and other key product data.
·Manages the product development lifecycle in partnership with Design and Technical Design teams, coordinating with suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve key milestones and ensure effective execution.
·Oversees the product approval process from pre-production (PP) through top of production (TOP), including lab dips, bulk submissions, strike-offs, handlooms, trims, labeling, and packaging.
·Ensures on-time delivery by proactively managing production timelines, resolving issues, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to address purchase order revisions, canceled orders, and delayed shipments.
·Partners with internal departments to ensure accurate duty classification in accordance with the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS).
·Supports supplier compliance initiatives and reinforces company standards related to human rights, labor laws, workplace health and safety, and ethical sourcing practices.
QUALIFICATIONS
·Bachelor’s degree
·Experience in sourcing or Product Development preferred
·Strong knowledge of global supply chains and the factors that influence cost, quality, delivery, and risk
·Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to translate information into actionable insights
·Comfortable adopting and utilizing AI-driven tools and digital technologies to increase efficiency, improve accuracy, and support innovation across business processes
·Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
·Strategic thinking, sound judgment, and strong organizational and problem-solving capabilities.
·Demonstrated project management skills with a proactive, self-directed approach
·Ability to collaborate and coordinate effectively across multiple internal and external business partners
·Strong sense of urgency and the ability to develop solutions under tight deadlines
·Comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities may evolve
For more information, check out\:
www.beallsinc.com
www.bealls.com
www.homecentric.com
www.beallsflorida.com
Bealls operates a family‑owned retail network that includes Bealls, Bealls Florida, and Home Centric, with more than 660 stores across 22 states and annual sales around $1.9 billion. It sells apparel, home goods, and related items through its store brands, offering a shopping experience that combines a mix of brands and private-label products in physical stores. The business grows primarily by reinvesting its profits, expanding its store footprint rather than pursuing external fundraising. Bealls’ longer-standing private ownership—dating back to 1915 and still run by the founding family—helps emphasize a commitment to customers, employees, and communities. Compared with competitors, its main differences are private, family ownership, a regional-to-midwestern U.S. store network, and a strategy focused on reinvestment for growth. The company’s goal is to expand its footprint and sales by reinvesting profits while sustaining trust and value for customers and communities.
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