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Fanatics

China-based licensed sports merchandise retailer

Director – Indirect Procurement

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNew York, NY, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • The role requires 5–7 years of experience in Strategy, Finance, or Procurement roles, with exposure to complex vendor or commercial decisions.
  • Experience creating structure in ambiguous environments is required.
  • Experience building or meaningfully improving processes or operating models without precedent is required.
  • Candidates must be highly organized and process-driven, with strong analytical and operational instincts.
  • Candidates must have a strong work ethic and be comfortable owning workstreams from start to finish.
  • Candidates must be able to communicate effectively and influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Advanced Excel and financial analysis skills are required.
  • Strong PowerPoint storytelling capability is required.
  • Candidates must have intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn the operational details behind the numbers.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the single, accountable end-to-end owner of strategic and commercial sourcing activity across indirect spend, including capital expenditures and large-scale investments, technology and data services, and professional services.
  • Lead sourcing initiatives, including spend analysis, vendor evaluation, negotiation strategy, and contract optimization.
  • Identify opportunities to improve processes, governance, and analytics across vendor sourcing and management.
  • Own and operate a centralized, standardized intake and approval process for new indirect vendor requests and contracts.
  • Consolidate and maintain a centralized view of contracts across the organization and proactively develop renewal negotiation strategies well in advance of expiration.
  • Build financial models and business cases to evaluate supplier trade-offs, pricing structures, and key commercial terms.
  • Drive negotiations across pricing, service-level agreements, contractual terms, and risk mitigation, ensuring commercial outcomes and partnership alignment.
  • Partner across Finance, Operations, Legal, IT, and other functions to align vendor strategy with evolving business needs.
  • Work closely with FP&A and Accounting to ensure contracts align with budgets, forecasts, accruals, and CapEx/OpEx treatment.
  • Act as a strategic thought partner to business leaders, bringing structure, clarity, and commercial insight to decisions involving third-party partnerships.
  • Build and lead a new strategic and commercial procurement function focused on non-product-related spend.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience partnering with Legal and reviewing contracts is a strong plus.

About the Company

Fanatics

China-based licensed sports merchandise retailer

Fanatics China is a joint venture between Fanatics Inc. and Hillhouse Capital that localizes and scales licensed sports merchandise for China. It designs, manufactures, and markets fan gear for Chinese consumers, operating a multi-channel model that includes building and running e-commerce sites for global leagues and teams, exploring online marketplaces, and developing physical retail concepts. Its product workflow combines technology, data, and on-demand manufacturing to manage the entire supply chain, enabling fast response to demand. The company differentiates itself through a China-focused approach backed by Hillhouse’s network and investments, its end-to-end vertical commerce model, and partnerships with hundreds of sports organizations, which together help it navigate China’s complex retail landscape. The goal is to satisfy a previously underserved Chinese market for licensed sports merchandise by creating localized products and channels that connect fans with official gear.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$5.2B
Headquarters
Huangpu, China
Founded
1995

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