Hi there, we’re Article. 👋 Since 2013, we have been redefining the furniture industry one sofa at a time, it’s not easy — it requires solving challenging, meaningful problems. This is where you come in, as a Director, Global Sourcing, you'll provide the operational discipline, structural guidance, and strategic execution necessary to scale Article’s global sourcing function to its full potential.
*This role requires you to work onsite at least 3 days a week from our HQ in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For those outside of Vancouver, BC, relocation assistance is provided.
Why We Need You:
Reporting to the VP of Supply Chain, you will guide the evolution of our sourcing department into an adaptive, strategic business partner. This role bridges global category strategy at HQ with regional operational execution across our North American clusters and international manufacturing hubs.
As a Director, you are accountable for growing our supply base resilience, mitigating compounding global geopolitical risks, and improving manufacturing quality standards. Above all, you will build a highly optimized, supportive global environment focused on coaching team members and driving long-term scalability.
In your first 3 months, you will dive right into the work as the sourcing team is set up and delivering. In that time, you will be:
- Building trust and rapport within your team and learning internal processes.
- Partnering with your internal customers - The Product Engine, which includes Category Management (Merchandising), Technical Product Development, Product Design and Finance.
- Understanding the current supply network and current vendors.
- Presenting your learnings and potential improvement opportunities.
- Creating a road map with the supply chain leaders on how to execute your recommendations for improvement.
Why Article?
As a Particle (people of Article), you will have a high level of autonomy to solve challenging, meaningful problems the best way you can. That means you’re trusted to explore solutions you believe will work best (you’re the expert, after all). You’ll do all this while growing your skills within a company that is redefining the furniture industry.
About the Supply Chain team:
The Sourcing team of 28 Particles sits within the Supply Chain team of around 52 Particles, who are based across Vancouver, Mexico, and Vietnam. The team is made up of Sourcing Excellence Particles in HQ and Sourcing Managers/Leads/Specialists in both Vietnam and Mexico.
They are a Hybrid team - 3 days in the office, with 2 days remote per week.
Operational Rigor & Visibility:
- Build, standardize, and mature disciplined operational tracking and management frameworks from scratch, ensuring complete visibility and data-driven predictability across all global sourcing workflows.
Business Partnering:
- Champion Sourcing Business Partnering. Empower team to serve as high-value quarterbacks for internal customers and stakeholders, driving global category strategy, vendor selection, and cost governance.
Footprint Diversification & Resilience:
- Architect and operationalize proactive regional diversification strategies (spanning NA, Asia, and emerging markets) to buffer Article against severe geopolitical disruptions and market constraints
Monopoly Risk Mitigation:
- Identify single points of failure within critical product categories and expand the vendor ecosystem or strategic partnership framework to systematically reduce such dependencies and improve negotiation leverage.
Ownership over Supplier performance metrics:
- Own global vendor accountability metrics - specifically On-Time In-Full (OTIF) production, cost of product, and factory defect rates, to systematically optimize the total Cost of poor quality or manufacturing for ARTICLE and protect brand integrity
Cross-Functional & Regional Alignment:
- Partner dynamically with regional teams and peer functional heads to optimize the flow of information, decision-making, and product across the supply chain.
Organizational Maturity:
- De-risk the organization by building a self-sustaining sourcing foundation, effectively transitioning day-to-day operational subsidies away from the role to focus on long-term strategy and value creation
Team Scaling & Optimization:
- Conduct capability diagnostics to support and scale global team members, intentionally aligning individuals to roles that match their true core strengths to unlock their full career potential and prevent bandwidth stretch.
Leadership responsibilities:
- This role holds overall leadership accountability for the global sourcing structure. It directly manages the Sourcing teams at HQ, North America (remote) & Asia (Vietnam office).
- You will have 3 direct reports and 28 Particles in total within your department.
Travel required:
- 25%–35% travel. International and domestic travel is required approximately 4-5 times/year to regional offices and vendor facilities across North America, Asia, & Europe. Year 1 will require a higher density of travel to build rapport with regional teams & establish local networks.
- 15+ years of progressive corporate experience in global sourcing, procurement, operations management, or supply chain leadership.
- Retail furniture experience is highly valued; consumer goods experience with a proven track record of Footprint Diversification is preferred.
- 7+ years of direct people leadership experience managing multi-layered organizations, international offices, and distributed multi-zone teams, while upskilling the team so the business is confident in their partnership.
- Proven track record as an operational builder with a history of scaling departments, refining processes, and maximizing team capabilities during organizational milestones.
- Demonstrated success in building and executing complex supply footprint transformations and regional risk mitigation strategies.
- Proven navigation of team alignment; comfortable breaking through functional silos, resolving matrixed team friction, and guiding teams productively through evolution and change.
- Completion of a Criminal Background check.
