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About the role
- Supply Growth Manager at Calico AI leading supplier acquisition and capacity planning in global markets. Fostering relationships with factories to support brand demand across continents and product categories.
Responsibilities
- Build and own Calico’s long-range capacity plan aligned with brand demand forecasts, category expansion, and regional diversification goals.
- Identify gaps in current capacity — by category, region, compliance requirement, or price point — and develop plans to close them.
- Develop and maintain a forward-looking view of global supply hotspots (e.g., rising manufacturing hubs, geopolitical shifts, cost changes).
- Recommend new markets and regions to explore based on performance data, risk indicators, and customer needs.
- Source, vet, and onboard new factories across Asia, South America, and other strategic regions.
- Conduct capability assessments covering quality, capacity, compliance, costing, engineering sophistication, and production specialty.
- Negotiate commercial terms, MOQs, costing frameworks, timelines, and partnership agreements.
- Serve as Calico’s primary relationship-builder with new factory partners, adapting communication styles to different cultures and business norms.
- Monitor global supply market trends, wage shifts, raw material availability, and category-specific innovations.
- Partner with Product and Data teams to refine how new supplier data flows into Calico’s platform and AI agents.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of experience in apparel or apparel-adjacent roles across sourcing, production, vendor management, category management, or supply-chain strategy.
- Demonstrated success working across international manufacturing ecosystems, particularly in Asia (China, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh) and/or South America (Mexico, Peru, Colombia).
- Strong cross-cultural communication skills and the ability to build trust with factory leadership from diverse backgrounds.
- Multilingual proficiency preferred (e.g., Mandarin, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi).
- Strong understanding of apparel production fundamentals: capacity planning, costing, line allocation, lead times, compliance, and quality systems.
- Proven ability to evaluate new suppliers across capability, performance, risk, compliance, and commercial fit.
- Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills.
- Analytical mindset — able to translate market data and customer pipeline forecasts into supply strategies.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with high ownership and autonomy.
- Based in Canada, with willingness to travel internationally as required.
Benefits
- Remote work options
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