Senior Sourcing and Costing Assistant

Description

Footasylum is a leading UK-based retailer specialising in streetwear and sportswear, committed to delivering innovative and trend-setting products to our customers, with a strong focus on digital transformation and data-driven decision-making.

Footasylum have recently partnered with Trapstar and this role will be predominately working alongside the Trapstar team. Our team is looking for a Senior Sourcing and costing Assistant to come and work on the Trapstar.
Founded on the principle that "It's A Secret," Trapstar continues to push boundaries through innovation, creativity, and a relentless commitment to authenticity.

Overview

Optimize costing and allocation strategies to support the overall sourcing objectives, in close collaboration with the Costing and Sourcing team.

Ensure accurate product cost analysis, competitive supplier negotiations, and sustainable sourcing practices.

The role focuses on driving cost efficiency, maintaining quality standards, and building strategic supplier partnerships to support business growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Costing & Pricing

  • Deliver Brands Seasonal cost management through PLM system, conducting weekly analysis and supplier negotiations to achieve seasonal targets.

  • Ownership of price lists across Channels - Supporting margin analysis and price scenario modelling to inform pricing decisions and commercial negotiations.

• Sourcing of products and Material

  • Lead product order placement by consolidating cross-channel order books while analysing moq’s, mcq’s, lead-times and planned delivery of timely product launch.

  • Collaborate with designers and product developers during fitting sessions promoting cost-reduction solutions and margin improvement strategies.

  • Lead Pre- season material forecasting supporting all nominated material dependent production timelines.

• Supplier Communication & Relationship Management

  • Lead cost negotiations with understand of product construction and supporting analysis of previous seasons as well as cross costing.

  • Support supplier strategy and allocation by providing detailed reporting and feedback on costing, performance, and margin.

  • Build strong relationship with suppliers maintaining ethical practices and transparent cost data.

About you

· Experienced in Apparel costings / sourcing.

· Extensive knowledge of key sourcing regions—including Europe, Asia, and Turkey—and a deep understanding of their respective strengths and capabilities.

· Experienced with consolidation opportunities (same fabric, colour, mill, or factory).

· Manage capacity plans and flag risks while having a great understanding of factory capabilities, lead times, MOQ's and production planning.

· Extensive experience in reviewing and translating tech packs, BOMs, and material details into actionable sourcing and costing strategies.

· PLM/ERP systems (Centric, WFX, Backbone, Business Central etc.). experience is preferable.

· Demonstrates strong organizational skills to manage several seasons in parallel.

· Ability to guide team members to achieve professional growth and enhance performance.

· Strong team player with exceptional collaboration skills.

Diversity 

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

Recruitment Process 

We’ll help make the interview process as transparent and stress-free as possible.

We review applications individually, and if we feel you would be a good fit, we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, allowing you to learn about our work in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel this is your opportunity.

Please note this is not a remote role, and we expect that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way in Greater Manchester.