Director, Retail Sourcing and Acquisition (RSA) – Supply Chain, InStock & Regulatory Affairs
Coupang
| Company | Coupang |
| Category | Legal & Compliance |
| Location | Seoul |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Director |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 11 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
About Coupang
Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the moment they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door. Powered by an end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a culture of customer obsession, Coupang has redefined tradeoffs between speed, selection, and price. We provide fast delivery on millions of items, including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year. South Korea represents one of the most dynamic and fast-growing e-commerce markets globally, and Coupang continues to lead through innovation and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
1. Global Vendor Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Drive logistics quality improvement by optimizing costs and leadtime while reinforcing on-time delivery execution.
Maintain relationships and, in partnership with the procurement team, lead negotiations with logistic partners to ensure optimal cost, quality, and service levels.
Monitor third party vendors performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives across logistic operations.
Lead systems improvements aligning with cross functional teams to the benefit of all global businesses at Coupang.
Get ahead of supply chain swan events and, where possible programmatically approach opportunity areas to stabilise COGS impact for our business (i.e. managing our currency hedging programme in collaboiration with Treasury department).
2. Global and local Vendors In-Stock Management (ISM)
Develop in-stock plans that balance cost, quality, speed, and innovation.
Collaborate with business, excellence, planning, and finance teams to improve forecasting accuracy and optimise Days of Coverage (DoC), balancing Lost GMV minimization and tight controls overs Aging Inventory.
Build frameworks to drive shifts in supplier capabilities and market conditions for both local and global vendors, including solving for Product Returns deploying more efficient out of country inbounding programmes aimed at reducing minimum order quantities across global vendors.
Lead systems and mechanisms improvements, aligning with cross functional and category teams, innovating across both to ensure a reduction in manual workload and scaling efficiency for the RSA in-stock team.
Innovate across core product groups to step change our capabilities to deliver product processing capabilities in-house or via third party vendors serving the business team plans to grow GMV and improve margins (i.e. in-house ripening systems for imported avocados).
3. Regulatory Governance (RG) Management
Ensure business continuity running in&nbs