The Role:
The Sourcing Manager is responsible for leading the sourcing and supply of accessories categories (including leather accessories, jewellery, eyewear, lifestyle and packaging), ensuring products are delivered on time, to cost and quality standards, in line with business demand and launch deadlines.
The role owns supplier performance, manages end-to-end production flow, and works cross-functionally with Planning, Product Development and Quality teams to mitigate risk and drive continuous improvement.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage the placement of all bulk finished good production purchase orders for leather goods accessories, jewellery, stationery, eyewear, sunglasses, lifestyle extension and soft accessories.
- Manage the production critical path, ensuring suppliers are manufacturing production on time and finding solutions when they arise to ensure on time delivery is maintained.
- Manage the raw material supply base for the accessories collection ensuring timely deliveries of all production raw materials required for the UK and offshore factories for leather goods accessories.
- Negotiate all raw material prices with material suppliers on a seasonal basis and create a raw material pricing summary for the seasonal pricing meeting.
- Working closely with all factories to ensure the business capacity requirements are communicated accordingly and advise forecasts for all raw material suppliers.
- Manage the placement of and control of agile raw material stocks facilitating both core and seasonal agile orders.
- Manage the placement of all packaging and consumables orders in line with the business requirements.
- Ensure the appropriate and accurate data is inputted into business systems throughout the process and report on delivery status regularly to meet business needs.
- Lead and develop the purchasing team, setting clear objectives and driving performance outcomes
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies aligned to cost, quality and delivery objectives.
- Own supplier performance and drive continuous improvement.
Culture:
- Embrace and demonstrate the Mulberry values and behaviours: honesty, dynamism, and a community-oriented spirit.
- Support Mulberry to deliver an inclusive culture, through behaving in a way that is open-minded and respectful towards others, and understanding that your views, opinions, and experiences may not always be shared by your colleagues.
- Act as an ambassador for Mulberry and communicate positively about the brand.
Sustainability:
- As a certified B Corp, we are committed to using business as a force for good. You’ll be encouraged to incorporate environmentally and socially responsible practices into your work, supporting our Made to Last strategy across Climate, Circularity, and Community.
- Help foster a culture where diversity is celebrated and every individual feels valued, respected, and included. Champion equity, empathy, and understanding in all interactions - internally and externally.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Proven experience within a sourcing or purchasing function, working with an international supply base, ideally across accessories, leather goods or lifestyle categories.
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to negotiate pricing, understand cost drivers and support margin optimisation.
- Experience managing supplier relationships, including performance management and driving continuous improvement.
- Strong understanding of production processes and critical path management, with the ability to mitigate risks and maintain on-time delivery.
- Confident working with data and internal systems (e.g. MRP/ERP), using insight to support forecasting, planning and decision-making.
- Effective people leader, able to motivate and develop teams, set clear expectations and drive performance outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence cross-functional teams including Planning, Product Development and Quality
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, with a proactive and solution-oriented approach
The role is based in London but requires regular travel to Somerset and overseas to factories.
Skills Required
- Proven experience within a sourcing or purchasing function
- Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills
- Experience in managing supplier relationships and driving improvements
- Understanding of production processes and critical path management
- Confident in working with data and internal systems
- Effective people leader with team development experience
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
What We Do
Established in Somerset in 1971 around a kitchen table, Mulberry has grown to be the largest maker of luxury leather goods in the United Kingdom. With a bold contemporary take on British heritage and a focus on responsible craft, our ambition is always to create progressive luxury pieces that are made to last. Sustainability has been at the heart of Mulberry since its inception, and in 2021, to mark our fiftieth anniversary, we launched our Manifesto. In it, we detail our commitment to be transformative in our thinking and actions in every area, from sourcing and manufacturing, to production, to our relationships with the communities around us. The Manifesto provides the foundations of its commitment to a regenerative and circular supply chain by 2030 – only then can we be a business that truly is Made to Last. Believing our bags should have long – if not multiple - lives, Mulberry offer customers artisanal repair and restoration services at our Lifetime Service Centre in Somerset. In 2020 we also introduced two new propositions: The Mulberry Exchange, a circular resale platform offering authenticated pre-loved Mulberry bags, including rare and archive styles, and Buy-Back, a service allowing customers the opportunity to trade in their existing Mulberry bag for credit towards a new purchase. Mulberry may now be a global brand, currently made up of over 1,200 employees all over the world, across offices, stores, and factories, but our values remain the same. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace, and we focus on improving our impact on people, as well as the planet
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