Head of Procurement
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Paula’s ChoiceSkincare procurement
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary$170,000 - $190,000 USD/annually
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8–10 in procurement roles within beauty, luxury, or FMCG sectors
- Required Skills
- Negotiation
Requirements
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field.
- Bring 8–10 years in procurement roles within beauty, luxury, or FMCG sectors.
- Have expertise in skincare ingredients and packaging.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead cross-functional projects with R&D and Supply Chain.
- Drive adoption of best-practice procurement processes.
- Bring business partnering and stakeholder management skills with senior brand leaders in a matrixed environment.
- Translate brand ambition into sourcing execution and measurable commercial impact.
- Have deep RFx and negotiation capability, including price, terms and conditions, and risk.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and commercial acumen across market trends, spend, supplier capability, and formulation dynamics.
- Be fluent in procurement and CLM tools and adept at digital reporting.
- Have working knowledge of procurement in New Product Development (NPD) and stage-gate processes.
Responsibilities
- Own Paula’s Choice sourcing strategy, aligning brand growth priorities, innovation roadmaps, regulatory requirements, and margin targets.
- Lead cost and margin improvement initiatives across formulations and packaging through value engineering, alternate ingredients and packaging, and supplier consolidation.
- Act as the first point of contact for escalated supplier issues and brand procurement questions.
- Serve as the primary procurement interface with Planning, R&D, Marketing, Quality, and Portfolio Procurement.
- Represent procurement in brand forums and translate commercial and market insights into recommendations.
- Drive supplier relationship management through QBRs, performance scorecards, innovation engagement, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain risk and contingency plans for critical formulations and components, including dual sourcing, capacity reservations, and alternatives.
- Consolidate brand-level spend and supplier data to identify trends and inform strategy.
- Contribute to executive dashboards for savings, risk, and margin performance.
- Promote digital procurement tools and process improvements, and partner on change management and capability building.
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