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Richemont

Luxury-goods holding company acquiring maisons

Purchasing Manager, Objects

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of purchasing experience.
  • Significant prior management experience.
  • Ideally, experience in an international organization and in the luxury industry, jewelry, or accessories.
  • Ability to turn a vision into action plans using a structured, solutions-oriented approach.
  • Project management skills and the ability to demonstrate leadership and agility.
  • Proactivity, organization, and the ability to develop and support a team.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of four buyers, support their skills development and professional growth, organize the team's workload in alignment with business divisions and performance goals, propose individual objectives, and prepare for team succession to secure resources.
  • Lead approximately five projects directly and support the team in deploying projects in the Accessories Marketing launch plan.
  • Support buyers in managing the cost prices of new products to meet profitability objectives, provide jewelry technical expertise to identify cost optimization opportunities, and coordinate development with the industrial project manager and project team.
  • Propose solutions to improve prices and support industrial project managers in supplier relationships to optimize lead times and quality.
  • Support supplier award recommendations by considering supplier production capacity, quality indicators, and reliability; track tooling budgets and financial commitments.
  • Lead annual budget negotiations for the existing range while accounting for regulatory and Maison policy constraints; propose ways to maintain profitability and optimal service levels.
  • Manage and update the database in Anaplan; support supplier relationships for other teams, including COP, after-sales service, Quality, and Customer Service.
  • Lead the monitoring of precious-metal price variations and repurchases of components and raw materials with the team, and ensure follow-up.
  • Co-develop the objects purchasing strategy, define priorities and associated action plans, and ensure the strategy is deployed throughout the purchasing process.
  • Generate gains through value analysis, launch performance, and overcost avoidance for the existing range.
  • Manage Anaplan data with the team and regularly verify reporting, including new-project integration, budget quantities, phasing updates, and indicator calculations.
  • Ensure the department's corporate social responsibility strategy is applied, including eco-design, carbon mission collection, supplier CSR policy, and traceability.
  • Develop the supplier shortlist and sourcing to support successful launches and portfolio performance, and anticipate future needs.
  • Manage the supplier panel through business review preparation and facilitation, strategic monitoring, financial health monitoring, regular visits, administrative CSR follow-up, sourcing to expand and secure the supplier panel, and supplier contracts.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in an international organization and in the luxury industry, jewelry, or accessories is preferred.

About the Company

Richemont

Luxury-goods holding company acquiring maisons

Richemont is a Swiss-based holding company that owns a collection of luxury brands, including Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and IWC Schaffhausen. It operates by acquiring and nurturing iconic luxury maisons with rich histories, then leveraging their heritage to create premium jewelry, watches, and accessories sold worldwide through its brands and retail networks. Unlike diversified conglomerates that mix many non-luxury businesses, Richemont focuses exclusively on high-end goods and has deliberately shifted away from other interests (like tobacco) to sharpen its luxury focus. Its goal is to build a global luxury powerhouse by growing its brands, expanding across geographies, and maintaining control over premium product sourcing, design, and distribution.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bellevue, Switzerland
Founded
1988

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