
Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Development Manager – Furniture
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Role Objective
Build and manage a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient supplier ecosystem for customised and premium furniture, while ensuring consistent quality, lead-time adherence, and strong commercial competitiveness across categories.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard OEM partners across furniture categories including Sofas, Beds, Dining, Storage, and Accent Furniture.
- Build a diversified and balanced supplier portfolio to reduce concentration risk while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
- Develop long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors, including exclusivity arrangements where relevant.
- Drive supplier capability development across quality, finishing standards, compliance, and scalability.
- Own end-to-end costing, pricing, and commercial negotiations with vendors.
- Deliver cost optimisation through material optimisation, process improvements, volume leverage, and alternate sourcing.
- Lead annual rate negotiations, cost resets, and contract renewals.
- Work closely with Category, Design, and Product teams to enable New Product Development (NPD).
- Ensure sourcing feasibility for design-led, customised, and make-to-order products.
- Define, implement, and enforce supplier SLAs covering quality standards, lead times, and responsiveness.
- Collaborate with Vendor Managers and QC teams to ensure On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
- Review vendor performance regularly and drive corrective actions and improvement plans.
- Identify and mitigate sourcing risks related to capacity constraints, supplier dependency, and raw material volatility.
- Partner with Finance on contracts, payment terms, and commercial governance.
Success Metrics (KPIs)
- Cost savings and margin improvement (CM1 / Gross Margin)
- Supplier OTIF and lead-time adherence
- Quality acceptance rate and defect reduction
- Reduction in supplier concentration and dependency risk
- New supplier onboarding, capability building, and scalability metrics
Ideal Profile
- 6–10 years of experience in furniture sourcing, manufacturing, or category operations.
- Strong understanding of furniture materials, production processes, and finishing standards.
- Proven expertise in vendor negotiations, cost management, and supplier development.
- Experience in customised or make-to-order manufacturing environments preferred.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with a hands-on execution mindset.
What We Offer
- High-impact role influencing margins, supply reliability, and product quality
- Opportunity to build and scale a strategic supplier ecosystem
- Cross-functional exposure across sourcing, design, manufacturing, and finance

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- Testing AsInt’s applications with the support of the development team
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EXPERIENCE :
- 2 to 5 years of strong project management experience, preferably in SAP product implementation.
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Overall 2-8 years of software development experience in building web-based and highly scalable applications
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Deep knowledge and development expertise in Core Java and SpringBoot or other equivalent frameworks
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About Company
UK based company with IT-based work in Ahmedabad and seeks to empower IT professionals and
organizations through the latest technologies.We are aproduct aswell asservice-basedindustry.We have
pioneeredin handling projects from the UK related to the healthcare industry in the UK. We follow a
novel tech-led approach and expand our expertise all over the UK and the Middle East.
What are we looking for in a candidate ?
● 4to7yearsof experience alongwiththe same yearsofrelevant experience inRuby onRails.
● Experience supportingand codingwith RESTfulAPI.
● SQL familiarity shouldbe there.
● ExcellentinDATABASE design and queries with postgres.
● Comfort with modern web architecture.
● Technical design and implementation of new features.
● AWS infrastructure experience is a plus
● Knowledge of Squashing bugs.
● Knowledge ofImproving security.
● Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common librariessuch asRspec andResque.
● Experienceworkingwithbackgroundand Cron-jobs,sidekiq,resque.
● Project handling and management along with strong communication skills
What will a candidate be doing with us ?
● Design,buildandmaintain efficient,reusable, and reliable Ruby codes.
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● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers withserver-sidelogic.
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- Reaching out to target talent via social networks
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Experience & Requirements:
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