Sourcing Manager - Lodi, NJ

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for building strong supplier partnerships and driving value? We’re looking for a Sourcing Manager to lead global sourcing initiatives, optimize supplier performance, and ensure competitive pricing across our product categories. If you enjoy market analysis, negotiation, and continuous improvement, this is the perfect opportunity to make an impact on a global scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Shape Global Strategy – Lead the development of sourcing strategies that drive efficiency, innovation, and long-term value across key product categories.
• Drive Market Intelligence – Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging markets to uncover new sourcing opportunities and strengthen competitiveness.
• Lead Negotiations – Partner with suppliers worldwide to secure the best total value—balancing cost, quality, and reliability.
• Champion Collaboration – Work closely with product development, supply chain, and operations teams to bring strategic insight to every stage of the process.
• Optimize Performance – Manage and continuously improve the global supply base, ensuring resilience, sustainability, and risk mitigation.

What We Are Looking For:

• Proven experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or global supply management.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and relationship-building skills.
• Expertise in cost modeling, market analysis, and supplier performance management .
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and deliver measurable results.
• A forward-thinking mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategize. Develop and improve Global Sourcing strategy and implement best practices and procedures for the responsible product categories spend.
• Expansion. Researches and explores emerging markets to improve product sourcing strategy.
• Pricing. Conducts global market competitiveness tests to ensure our purchase price is aligned with the market.
• Should-Cost Analysis. Perform Should-Cost Analysis for the responsible product categories spend.
• Negotiation. Responsible for negotiating long-range purchase contracts to optimize the purchase price.
• Commodity Pricing. Consistently monitors global commodity prices to assure purchase price is aligned with the market.
• Product Development. Participates in new product development and provides sourcing and procurement guidance to the functional team.
• Continuous Improvement. Consistently manages the supply base for continuous improvement and risk mitigation.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Finance, or other business-related fields and 5 years’ experience in a Sourcing role.
• Experience in global sourcing with a global contract manufacturing supplier base.
• Strong interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to effectively work with diverse suppliers, agents, and internal cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of and experience with ERP and MRP systems. 
• Superb financial analytical capabilities.
• Experience in working with Asia-Pacific supply base.
• Experience and knowledge of diverse manufacturing processes and materials.
• Strong organization and time management skills.

 Location: (on site) Lodi, NJ

 CFS Brands:

In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, CFS BRANDS is a market-leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor of commercial food service, healthcare, and industrial janitorial and sanitation products. The company supports stable and growing end markets that are supported by strong tailwinds.   

CFS BRANDS has maintained a market-leading position and continually grown in its segments with relentless customer support, leading product breadth and availability, and a “one-stop shop” solution serving both “front” and “back” of restaurants with a focus on customer intimacy. CFS BRANDS enjoys a unique competitive advantage with the ability to produce in-house with 6 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico, over 700,000 square feet of distribution center space in 4 U.S. facilities, and the ability to source products from all over the world.  

CFS BRANDS’s core products include dinnerware, professional cookware, cleaning tools, drinkware, disposable lids, dispensing systems, healthcare equipment, brushes, and cleaning tools.  These products are provided through major distributors to the country’s best-known restaurant franchises.

CFS BRANDS became a portfolio company of The Jordan Company (“TJC”), a private equity firm, in 2018.  With over $8 billion in cumulative equity commitments, TJC is among the world’s most respected investors in leading middle-market businesses.  The TJC team enjoys a storied history of partnering with exceptional management teams to create long-term value for management and investors. 

More information on CFS BRANDS can be found at www.cfsbrands.com.  The Jordan Company website is www.thejordancompany.com.  

CFS Brands is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s I-9 to confirm work authorization.