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Global Raw Materials Sourcing Manager – Textiles & Apparel
About UA/Uniform Advantage Brands
At UA Brands, we’re changing the way healthcare and culinary professionals get dressed. For over 40 years, we’ve created stylish, high-performance uniforms that combine thoughtful design with real-world function.
Join a team that values creativity, impact, and community—and help us redefine uniforms that don’t conform.
About the Role
The Global Raw Materials Sourcing Manager leads the global sourcing strategy for fabrics, trims, and other raw materials across our medical scrubs and chef wear assortments. This role manages textile mill and supplier relationships, fabric development, cost negotiations, capacity and lead times, quality standards, and supply continuity across global sourcing regions.
You’ll partner with Product Design, Product Development, Quality, Merchandising, and Global Supply Chain teams to ensure materials meet product, quality, cost, and delivery requirements.
What You’ll Do
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Develop and execute the global raw material sourcing strategy across fabric mills and trim suppliers.
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Build and manage relationships with global textile mills and suppliers, negotiating pricing, minimum order quantities (MOQs), capacity, and lead times.
- Manage raw material costs and identify value-engineering and cost-saving opportunities while maintaining quality and performance.
- Lead new fabric and trim development based on product strategy, emerging textile technologies, and Design and Merchandising needs.
- Partner with Product Design and Development to ensure fabrics meet performance, testing, quality, and compliance requirements.
- Manage supply risk through dual sourcing, supplier diversification, mill capacity planning, and lead-time management.
- Partner with the Egypt sourcing team (and future regional teams) on local raw material execution and supplier performance.
- Establish fabric quality standards and coordinate bulk fabric approvals with Fabric Quality and Color teams.
- Maintain seasonal fabric information and manage material status from development and sampling through testing and final approval.
- Manage fabric records in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems and coordinate greige and dyed fabric requirements.
- Monitor textile and raw material market trends and assess their impact on cost, availability, and lead times.
- Provide monthly and quarterly fabric sourcing and performance reporting to Global Supply Chain leadership.
- Visit textile mills and suppliers as needed for supplier evaluations, R&D, new collections, and fabric development.
- Lead and develop direct reports while driving continuous improvement in sourcing processes.
What You’ll Bring
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Experience in global raw materials sourcing, textile sourcing, fabric sourcing, apparel sourcing, or supply chain.
- Experience negotiating directly with global textile mills in markets such as Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, China, or similar sourcing regions.
- Strong knowledge of fabric development, textile manufacturing, supplier management, costing, capacity planning, and production lead times.
- Experience improving quality and consistency while identifying opportunities to reduce costs.
- People management experience, including at least one direct report.
- Strong analytical, organizational, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple suppliers, seasonal priorities, and deadlines across a global supply chain.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
- Yunique PLM experience is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Fashion, Textiles, Apparel, or a related field.
Where You’ll Work
Office-Based – Fort Lauderdale Headquarters
Just a short distance from the beautiful Fort Lauderdale beaches, our home base of South Florida, is a perfect reflection of our customer population and culturally rich and diverse team. These on-site, business-critical roles are the backbone of our success. Join other team members in the spacious Quad for lunch or enjoy our ongoing team member activities.
Plenty of Benefits Too
UA BRANDS offers a full range of benefits, allowing you the opportunity to customize a benefits package that addresses both your health and financial needs.
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Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) with company matching
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability
- Accident, hospital care, and critical illness insurance
- Legal insurance and identity theft protection
- Pet insurance
- Holiday pay
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Volunteer time off
UA Brands Is an Equal Opportunity Employer
UA Brands provides equal employment and advancement opportunities. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities, without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.
We are a Drug-Free Workplace.