Company Overview:
Party City Holdings, Inc. is the largest party goods supplier and party retail chain in the world. We are also the country's premier retailer of Halloween costumes, accessories, and decorations. Party City Holdings is made up of two divisions, Party City Retail Group (PCRG) and AMSCAN Wholesale. At Party City Holdings, we like to have fun! We are helpful, passionate, and creative. We inspire our customers with exciting concepts, themes and ideas and provide everything they need to bring them to life. We make it easy to create unforgettable moments.
Job Overview
The Sourcing Operations Specialist will play a key role supporting the Sourcing Operations Manager. This role will work closely with the manager to execute sourcing operations strategies and key initiatives to help achieve financial goals. The Sourcing Operations Specialist will be a key assist to the Sourcing Operations Manager in product set-up, cost management, quoting and project management.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Builds effective relationships with cross-functional partners, internal stakeholders, and external suppliers to produce positive results and champion change.
- Executes the product operations initiatives in support of the department priorities.
- Responsible for new item set up in PLM system and all data maintenance of existing products.
- Understands costing and margin to complete pricing analysis.
- Assists Sourcing Operations Manager with providing costs to PC Merchants based on margin requirements.
- Prepares pre-season item analysis (including inventory liability) for PC merchant team.
- Monitors the time and action calendar to meet deadlines.
- Review quality and delivery metrics to assist manager in identifying issues or concerns.
- Executes special projects as needed.
- Provides creative solutions to unplanned changes that may occur and proactively problem solves.
The salary range (55k – 60k) offered for this position is a good faith description of the expected salary range this role will pay. PCHI reserves the right to pay more or less than the stated range based on a variety of factors such as experience, geography, etc.
