• Responsible for the oversight of service delivery and compliance from a variety of vendors. • Manage contract life cycle, create profiles, gather documentation, update vendor license information and communicate with vendor as necessary. • Assess vendor performance according to Company’s quality standards and policies, industry compliance, regulatory requirements, and adherence to applicable state and federal law requirements. • Conducts audits to measure user satisfaction, vendor delivery, and compliance. • Provide feedback/reporting to management. • May include generating leads and recruiting new vendors.

• Own sourcing strategy and vendor relationships for North America–based manufacturers of Home Hard Line products (both MTO and stocked), including fabric mills • Lead cost negotiations, contracts, and margin improvement initiatives with Americas-based suppliers • Identify, evaluate, and onboard new factory partners with high quality standards, scalable capacity, and reliable lead times • Collaborate cross-functionally with Merchandising, Planning, and Operations to launch new products efficiently and reliably • Visit key vendor partners regularly to troubleshoot issues, audit quality and delivery performance, and build long-term strategic relationships • Drive factory-side product development cycles in close partnership with Design and Merchandising • Ensure successful order execution with vendors by reviewing production timelines, ensuring SLA adherence, accelerating production where needed, and optimizing quick-ship performance • Ensure compliance with Quince’s ethical sourcing, social responsibility, and sustainability standards

• Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies • Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction • Establishes the Sourcing marine operations Suppliers’ panel in close collaboration with GE Vernova marine operations team and Project Sourcing department • Organises the Requests for Interest (RFI), Requests for Quotation (RFQ) of marine operation services and ensure that project costing is backed up by robust supplier offers • Defines specific strategic marine operations subcontracting points such as destination country laws, vessels country of origin, cash in/out, basis for escalation formulas, etc • Forecast the marine operations subcontracting related risks such as hyperinflation or specific country and/or supplier risk • Responsible for the fulfilment of the business commitment to costs and cash-flow for the marine operations activities in ongoing project • Ensures that all relevant marine operations subcontracting processes, work instructions and guidelines are followed within the organization as well as ensure compliance with Corporate Instructions, other Group Directives, etc • Responsible for supplier selection, monitoring and performance evaluation • Gives feedback from on-going agreements and execution issues to the GE marine operations team, to PMO Sourcing team • Ensures appropriate marine operations risks, contracts and claim management awareness and know-how in his/her unit • Has the authority together with the GEV projects sourcing manager to negotiate Frame Agreements, Purchase Orders conditions within its scope of responsibility and manage contracts during execution being the point of contact of suppliers for commercial and contractual issues

• Commercial Development • Close deals. Based on your knowledge and understanding of our financial tools, the physical (organic soft commodities) market, and thanks to your commercial experience and instinct; • Manage internal processes, like sharing market intel globally and working on intercompany deals to manage global positions. • Take responsibility in growing the business, reaching your personally set goals, and constantly aim for more; • Responsible for the procurement and sales of the assigned product group; quantities, deliveries according to specs, contracts, and cost price calculations. • Formulate sourcing strategy, cost, and sales budget. • Strategy • Be involved in internal discussions regarding market directions, market/product trends, and (inventory) positions; • Develop strategic, long-term partnerships with customers and suppliers. Understand their needs and collaborate with other disciplines (Technical, Logistical, Financial) to develop new business opportunities; • Customer/Vendor management • Speak daily to customers and suppliers to gather market information, monitor price movement, and discover trends; • Ensures optimal customer satisfaction; • Responsible for handling product complaints from customers; • Define all quality aspects towards all product providers and customers (either when buying/selling on a contract basis or otherwise); • Market knowledge • Travel around the world, visiting customers and suppliers and attending trade fairs; • Gets acquainted and keeps track of international market developments; • Visits trade-related fairs; • In-depth knowledge of competitive landscape;