Senior Manager, Global Procurement – Materials

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🌐 France, Germany, +2 more countries – Remote

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🛒 Procurement

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Quince

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Quince is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce retailer offering affordable luxury essentials across apparel, home goods, bedding, beauty, and accessories. The company emphasizes high-quality materials (cashmere, European linen, leather, silk), a factory-direct model to keep prices low, sustainable practices, and long return policies. Quince sells men's and women's clothing, baby and kids items, furniture and home decor, and lifestyle products through an online storefront with focus on honest pricing and value.

📋 Description

• Own and drive cost structures and savings for global raw materials procurement • Establish monitoring frameworks to forecast global market shifts, raw material fluctuations, currency risks, and macro-material trends • Build and operationalize live tracking systems for raw material prices, currency movements, and supply risks • Construct and scale material-specific clean sheets to establish baseline component costs and support Tier 1 negotiations • Support Buy Plan margin reviews and ensure transparent, competitive pricing from material suppliers • Map Tier 2 and Tier 3 vendor landscapes and develop material and vendor strategies to reduce complexity, ensure capacity, and increase direct-to-mill buying power • Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate upstream material availability into product design and development cycles • Design and execute RFPs for raw material vendors, yarn spinners, mills, tanneries, and textile mills • Own the full bidding process from vendor outreach through award • Negotiate cost-reduction agreements directly with Tier 2 material suppliers and institutionalize repeatable negotiation frameworks • Partner with Material Sourcing, Product Sourcing, and Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors to implement material benefits into finished-goods costing • Identify and execute value-creation opportunities, including verticalization and volume consolidation • Report to the Head of Procurement

🎯 Requirements

• 12-15 years of experience in raw material sourcing, commodity procurement, or upstream supply chain management • Deep knowledge of textile raw materials including yarns, fibers, fabrics, leather, and related commodities • Experience negotiating directly with mills, tanneries, yarn spinners, and raw material vendors • Familiarity with commodity hedging frameworks and global market indices • Proven ability to build and execute material-specific clean sheets • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; comfort with large data sets • Technical aptitude for leveraging AI-powered platforms, such as LLMs, for scenario analysis and automating complex procurement tasks • Experience in upstream supply chain network design or consolidation preferred • Experience working cross-functionally with merchandising, sourcing, and production teams • Bachelor's degree required • MBA or advanced degree a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations • Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background check

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