Yarn Sourcing Manager

Your purpose at Stanley/Stella

This role plays a strategic role in developing and executing yarn strategies that drive speed to market, improve cost efficiency, and support sustainability and innovation. This position is responsible for managing a robust global yarn matrix, leading complex negotiations, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure availability aligns with development, and production timelines. The role requires deep expertise in textile manufacturing, market intelligence, and yarn sourcing, as well as a proactive mindset to identify and mitigate material risks.

Your role and impact

• Lead Yarn Sourcing Strategy that support business goals and sustainability objectives
• Own and optimize the yarn supplier matrix to balance flexibility, lead time, quality, and cost
• Build and maintain dashboards and mill KPIs to drive continuous improvement and provide insights to leadership
• Track WIP (work-in-progress) status with mills to ensure timely yarn deliveries ; Monitor capacity actualization vs. projections
• Partner with mills and garment suppliers to resolve quality related issues and liabilities
• Partner with global yarn mills to conduct cost negotiations and capacity planning aligned with forecasted demand.
• Analyse cost components and global market trends to support fact-based negotiation strategies.
• Provide yarn forecasts, initiate commitments, and ensure clear communication for bulk execution and flexibility needs
• Drive initiatives that elevate mill performance and enable product innovation through supplier Engagement & Negotiation
• Conduct new yarn mill sourcing, technical capability reviews, and onboarding
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Development, Sustainability, Quality, and Planning to align on yarn strategies.

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Textiles
• 10-12+ years of experience in international yarn sourcing or yarn production
• Expert technical knowledge of yarn manufacturing process
• Understanding of garment production, dry/wet processing, and cut-and-sew operations.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience managing global supplier relationships.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Experience with sustainability initiatives and supply chain traceability road mapping is preferred.

About us

Founded in 2012, Stanley/Stella has become Europe’s leading brand for premium and sustainable blank apparel. Our mission is simple yet ambitious: to redefine how responsible fashion is made, distributed and experienced.

We combine contemporary design with uncompromising quality and a deeply embedded commitment to sustainability. Every choice, from the fabrics we select to the long-term partnerships we build, reflects our belief that doing better is not optional; it is essential.

At Stanley/Stella, excellence is not a slogan. It is our way of working. We operate with transparency, respect and an entrepreneurial spirit that empowers every team member to make an impact. Together we are shaping a more conscious and inspiring future for our industry and for everyone who wears our products.

Join a company that leads by example, grows with purpose and creates change that lasts.