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Scentbird

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

💄 Beauty

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

Beauty • Retail • eCommerce

Scentbird is a subscription-based fragrance service that delivers designer perfumes and colognes directly to your doorstep each month. With over 700 designer scents to choose from, Scentbird allows customers to explore a wide variety of fragrances by selecting and trying different scents each month. Subscribers receive an 8 mL vial of their chosen fragrance, and they can manage their fragrance queue to suit their preferences, with the flexibility to skip a month or cancel at any time. Scentbird offers a personalized experience through a scent profile quiz, helping customers find the best matches for their fragrance preferences. The service is known for its convenience and variety, offering a luxurious and affordable way to try high-end perfumes and colognes.

📋 Description

• Identify and vet international wholesalers, exporters, and parallel-market distributors selling genuine full-size fragrance • Build direct supplier relationships and negotiate pricing, minimum order quantities, and payment terms • Confirm product authenticity and traceability, including counterfeit risk and trademark/import compliance • Manage the full sourcing cycle from supplier discovery and sampling through quality checks, purchase orders, and logistics coordination • Track customs records, bills of lading, certificates of origin, and other import documentation • Monitor international pricing trends and excess/closeout inventory to identify deals • Partner with Quality to inspect incoming products for damage, mislabeling, or specification issues • Maintain supplier scorecards covering reliability, pricing, lead times, and red flags • Monitor trademark disputes and legal actions involving gray-market fragrance distributors and flag risks • Report to the COO and collaborate with Purchasing, Quality, and Legal

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in international sourcing, procurement, or supply chain • Ideally experience in fragrance, beauty, or CPG • Direct experience with gray-market or parallel-import sourcing • Network of, or ability to quickly build relationships with, international fragrance wholesalers and exporters • Comfort reading customs and trade data, including bills of lading and import/export records • Strong negotiation skills and experience managing supplier contracts across currencies and time zones • Working knowledge of trademark and parallel-import law for consumer goods • Willingness to travel internationally to meet suppliers and inspect goods • Nice to have: relationships with fragrance wholesalers in Dubai, Europe, or Singapore • Nice to have: experience in fragrance subscription, discount beauty, or off-price retail • Nice to have: a second language such as Arabic or Dutch

🏖️ Benefits

• International travel opportunities to meet suppliers and inspect goods • Inclusive environment committed to diversity and different backgrounds and perspectives