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Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

New York, NY

 

#MaesaMagic   

The next gen beauty company, Maesa is transforming the industry by incubating and growing meaningful, innovative brands and making prestige beauty accessible. Maesa believes beauty ignites inspiration, creativity, imagination, and connection, sparking new ideas and possibilities, and meeting unmet consumer needs. Through best-in-class design, formulation, brand creation and marketing capabilities, Maesa delivers new, better and different products with an unsurpassed speed to market. Maesa works with a variety of retailers to create and launch brands across beauty and wellness categories. The current portfolio includes Kristin Ess, Hairitage by Mindy McKnight, Fine'ry, Being Frenshe, MIX:BAR and Niches & Nooks among other brands. For more information, visit www.maesa.com. 

 

About the Role: 

The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing will play a critical role in building and strengthening Maesa’s sourcing function to support our rapid growth. This individual will help establish sourcing protocols, procedures, and controls to ensure scalability as the business continues to expand. 

We are seeking someone with strong entrepreneurial drive, who can independently lead projects, negotiate with vendors, and partner cross-functionally across Packaging, Project Management, R&D, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, and Operations. The ideal candidate will be highly analytical, detail-oriented, and adept at balancing both strategic and tactical execution in a fast-paced environment. 

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-growth, innovative beauty company and make a direct impact on how we source, contract, and partner with suppliers. This role reports to the VP of Strategic Sourcing.  

This role will be on site 3 days per week in our Manhattan office.   

Key Responsibilities:

  • Systems & Processes: Establish and enhance sourcing protocols, procedures, and controls to support scalable growth. 
  • Supplier Management: Lead supplier selection and management, from pre-assessment to implementation, ensuring alignment with cross-functional leads. 
  • Contracting & Negotiation: Independently negotiate supplier contracts (including turnkey projects), ensuring alignment with Legal, Finance, Ops, and Leadership teams. 
  • Sustainability & Compliance: Partner with packaging suppliers to enforce packaging regulations; drive progress in sustainability certifications (e.g., Ecovadis), with a goal of advancing from Silver to Gold/Platinum. 
  • Value Creation: Lead value engineering and cost optimization initiatives to improve gross margin. 
  • Raw Material & Formula Sourcing: Expand sourcing activities beyond packaging into raw materials and formula verification in partnership with R&D and Regulatory. 
  • Global Sourcing: Support growth into Mexico and South America; bilingual Spanish strongly preferred. 
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Project Management, Packaging, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance to flawlessly execute product launches. 
  • Risk Mitigation: Identify risks and provide timely, actionable solutions for corrective action. 
  • Reporting & Analytics: Analyze vendor offers, track progress, and present sourcing results and business needs to stakeholders; ensure supplier scorecards are maintained. 

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or Chemistry (chemistry background strongly preferred) 
  • 8+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, or related functions. 
  • Experience in beauty, personal care, pharma, or OTC industries required. 
  • Strong financial, analytical, and negotiation skills. 
  • Advanced Excel proficiency (VLOOKUP, Pivots, SUMIFs required; Macros, Power Query, and scripting/coding a plus). 
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to manage multiple priorities and diverse stakeholders. 
  • Knowledge of sustainability practices and supplier compliance programs strongly preferred. 
  • Bilingual Spanish a strong plus. 

What We Offer    

$120,000/yr - $145,000/yr. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This position is eligible for participation in a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and company performance.   

Maesa offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees. Employees can choose to enroll in health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans. Through generous paid time off, a hybrid office setup, and paid leave options, Maesa encourages wellness and balance among employees 

Our Commitment to You    

At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline.  We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the “new” without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors — all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.   

 

 

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