Head of Procurement

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Paula's Choice Skincare

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1995

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Marketing

Paula's Choice Skincare is a company that specializes in skincare products. It offers a wide range of skincare collections including boosters, cleansers, exfoliants, and moisturizers designed to address various skin concerns. The company emphasizes the importance of sustainability and recycling and provides customer perks such as auto replenishment and private consultations. Paula's Choice Skincare is committed to research and education through their Science Advisory Board and offers numerous client services like order returns, shipping information, and personalized consultation. They also have programs for students and affiliates and focus on community engagement through editorial guidelines and educational initiatives.

📋 Description

• Own the Paula’s Choice sourcing strategy, aligning brand growth priorities, innovation roadmaps, regulatory requirements, and margin targets into an integrated plan. • Lead cost and margin improvement initiatives across formulations and packaging through value engineering, alternate ingredient/pack development, and supplier consolidation. • Act as the first point of contact for escalated supplier issues and brand procurement questions. • Serve as the primary interface with Planning, R&D, Marketing, Quality, and Portfolio Procurement. • Represent procurement in brand forums and translate commercial and market insights into brand impact and decision recommendations. • Drive supplier relationship management, including QBRs, performance scorecards, innovation engagement, and continuous improvement. • Maintain risk and contingency plans for critical formulations and components, including dual sourcing, capacity reservations, and alternates. • Consolidate brand-level spend and supplier data to identify trends and inform strategy. • Contribute to executive dashboards for savings, risk, and margin performance. • Promote effective use of digital procurement tools and process improvements. • Partner with central portfolio procurement and brand supply chain on change management and capability building. • Deliver cost savings, gross margin improvement, improved lead times, OTIF, inventory efficiency, supplier resiliency, on-time NPD sourcing, and stakeholder satisfaction.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, or related field. • 8–10 years in procurement roles within beauty, luxury, or FMCG sectors, with expertise in skincare ingredients and packaging. • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects with R&D and supply chain and drive adoption of best-practice procurement processes. • Exceptional business partnering and stakeholder management with senior brand leaders in a matrixed environment. • Strategic thinking with the ability to translate brand ambition into sourcing execution and measurable commercial impact. • Deep RFx and negotiation capability, including price, terms and conditions, and risk. • Strong analytical and commercial acumen, synthesizing market trends, spend, supplier capability, and formulation dynamics. • Fluent in procurement and CLM tools; adept at digital reporting and decision transparency. • Clear communication and escalation handling with suppliers and internal stakeholders. • Working knowledge of procurement in New Product Development (NPD) and stage-gate processes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off, including time off to volunteer • Learning and development resources to support personal and professional growth • Wellness benefits like meditation app memberships, product discounts, and free samples of our amazing products • Most roles are fully remote • Dog-friendly office • Participation in the company discretionary bonus plan