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About the Role
As our Senior Sourcing Executive, you'll be the link between our creative ideas and the brilliant partners who bring them to life. Working with our Senior Sourcing Manager, you'll deliver our sourcing and quality strategy across every Papier channel – D2C, Wholesale and B2B. You'll own your own projects and ranges from first sample to launch: finding the right suppliers, negotiating costs and keeping the critical path on track, so our products land on time, beautifully made and at the right margin. You'll join a vibrant, energetic team where your voice really counts, with real influence over product, range and pricing, and a direct impact on how the business performs. This role suits someone confident talking to suppliers, naturally personable and assertive enough to hold firm in a negotiation, who loves building relationships as much as landing a great deal.
Responsibilities
- Own projects and ranges end to end, setting and tracking the critical path to ensure product launch dates are met and updating the business on any timeline changes.
- Negotiate deals for materials, production, labelling, and packaging costs, MOQs, and payment terms with new and existing suppliers, ensuring contracts or T&Cs are in place before orders are placed.
- Identify new suppliers and cultivate long-term partnerships by evaluating business profiles, factory audits, quality systems, service levels, and sustainable procurement practices to improve lead times, costs, and products, including supplier and printer visits.
- Collaborate with Design on New Product Development (NPD), suggesting materials and influencing product changes to maintain range aesthetics and profitability.
- Partner with Print Partners on production costs, print NPD, and improvement projects, managing print quality and implementing new processes.
- Champion quality by working with QA and third-party experts to ensure products meet specifications, reduce returns, and establish charge-back mechanisms for substandard products.
- Lead sustainability initiatives, including FSC certification and EUDR compliance, to shape responsible sourcing practices.
Requirements
- Experienced sourcing expert, ideally from a fast-growing business, with a track record of driving cost efficiencies.
- Confident, assertive negotiator, comfortable holding ground with suppliers while maintaining strong relationships.
- Personable and a brilliant communicator, able to adapt communication style for suppliers, printers, and colleagues at all business levels.
- Experience managing product development and delivering ranges end to end, including working with offshore suppliers.
- Analytical and commercially minded, with the ability to calculate margin and meet profit and budget targets.
- Ability to work at pace and solve problems, with a good knowledge of quality management processes.
- Experience managing FSC certification or an understanding of EUDR regulations is a plus.
Skills
- Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Product Development
- Commercial Acumen
- Problem Solving
- Quality Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Sustainability Initiatives
- FSC Certification
- EUDR Compliance
Location
- Central London Office
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- 25 days' holiday, plus the option to buy 5 more each year
- 10 days a year to work from anywhere in the world
- Private medical & rewards with Aviva (including optical & dental coverage, gym memberships, wellbeing perks & more)
- Pension with Penfold
- Enhanced parental leave offerings
- A weekly wellness hour
- £45 monthly cultural allowance
- £75 personal stationery allowance every year, plus £150 for a lifetime special occasion
- 40% staff discount (and 20% for friends & family)
- Cycle to work scheme
- 2 paid days a year to volunteer for a cause you care about
- Weekly team lunch
- Access to mental wellbeing resources and support
About the Company
- At Papier, we believe in the power of the blank page. Since the business was founded in London in 2015, we've been crafting beautifully designed stationery - from journals and planners to wedding invitations - that inspire creativity and meaningful connections. With over £60 million raised and a growing presence in the UK, US and beyond, we're on a mission to make everyday moments noteworthy.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, welcoming people from all backgrounds, identities and experiences.