Previous working experience with a Home Decor / Lifestyle Brand or Buying house is mandatory for this job.
About Us
The Mansion is a design led premium gifting brand. We create our own products and packaging.
The Role
We are looking for a sourcing enthusiast who can lead and manage multiple products and vendors irrespective of the material. You own everything that gets manufactured in hard goods, print, and packaging, from vendor to finished piece. You are not a coordinator. You are accountable for cost, quality, and timeline.
Responsibilities
Hard goods
- Lead and manage production for hard and soft goods (scarves, clutches, leather bags, jewelry)
- Source and develop: brass, metal, wood, ceramic, stone, glass, marble
- Complete vendor management ie. Plan, communicate & coordinate with vendors, negotiations, factory visits, manage & ensure timely deliveries on production. End-to-end sampling , finishing standards , production follow - through and new product procurement/ approval process.
- Constantly look for new products & vendors and maintain a database of existing vendors for sourcing of products at better price.
Print & packaging
- Rigid boxes, sleeves, inserts, cartons, printed collateral
- Offset, screen, foiling, embossing, UV, die-cutting
- Build and maintain a locked vendor panel on annual rate contracts
Across
- Costing sheets - accurate, itemised, submitted for approval
- Production timelines mapped backward from dispatch date
- Weekly production tracker - vendor, PO, rate, stage, ETA
- Physical vendor visits during production, not after
- Overview daily dispatches of packages .
- Maintain and manage the product inventory in the warehouse of the company.
- Should have extremely good problem solving skills.
- Open to travel across different cities for sourcing and quality checks.
Qualifications
- Must have 5+ years’ experience in in merchandising - home, hardgoods, giftware, or packaging
- Live vendor relationships in at least two hard goods clusters
- Costing done independently, not just quotes collected
- Comfort with production timelines under 30 days
- Working Excel/Google Sheets. You will maintain a tracker daily.
Requirements
- Should have their own vehicle for travelling.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: ₹40,000.00 - ₹50,000.00 per month
Application Question(s):
- If you join us, how would you structure a system to ensure nothing leaves the warehouse with defects or errors? Explain step-by-step.
- What is your current CTC, expected CTC, and notice period?
- In three lines, tell us: the hardest product you've ever got made, and what went wrong.
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: In person
