The Role
Manage supplier performance, sourcing resilience, contracts, negotiations, quality frameworks, regulatory compliance, and root-cause improvement initiatives. Develop supplier risk assessments, scorecards, and dashboards while ensuring MDR, CE marking, and ISO-related requirements are followed. Collaborate with suppliers, Legal, and internal stakeholders to improve sourcing continuity and product quality during a temporary maternity-cover assignment.
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Company Description
We’re Ace & Tate – and yes, we make glasses. But more than that, we make working here worth your while.
We are looking for a Sourcing & Quality Specialist to join us on a Maternity Cover from December 2026 until June 2027. We are open to both candidates looking for a temporary employment contract and experienced freelancers interested in supporting us during this period.
Key Responsibilities:
Sourcing Resilience
- Supplier Performance & Risk Management: Deepen and mature supplier performance tracking and risk assessments, translating findings into concrete mitigation plans.
- Sourcing Strategy: Explore opportunities to strengthen sourcing resilience, including identifying new suppliers, sourcing regions and nearshoring options across frames and materials.
- Contract Management & Negotiations: Review and strengthen existing supplier contracts, including commercial negotiations in collaboration with the Legal team.
Quality Assurance & Compliance
- Quality Framework: Further develop the existing quality framework, including inspection standards, supplier quality control processes and the quality study group, incorporating industry best practices to continuously improve quality standards.
- Root-Cause Analysis: Drive root-cause analysis and implement structural improvements to address recurring quality issues in collaboration with suppliers and internal teams.
- Regulatory Compliance: Maintain and further embed MDR compliance, ensuring regulatory requirements and processes are consistently followed across relevant departments.
You have
- Relevant Experience: Experience in sourcing, procurement, quality assurance or supply chain management, ideally within fashion, eyewear or another consumer product category.
- Supplier & Quality Management: Proven track record of independently managing supplier performance and quality programmes end to end.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Hands-on experience with regulatory and compliance frameworks such as MDR, CE marking and ISO standards, ideally within eyewear, medical devices or similar regulated products.
- Negotiation Skills: Experience negotiating with suppliers, including commercial agreements and payment terms.
- Analytical Skills: Comfortable developing supplier scorecards, conducting risk assessments and building dashboards, with the ability to translate data into actionable decisions.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to identify opportunities, develop new ideas, build a business case and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Ownership & Initiative: Proactive self-starter who works independently, takes ownership and drives initiatives forward without waiting for direction.
- Language Skills: Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
- The ability to work from or commute to our Amsterdam HQ
What we offer
- A dynamic and high-impact role in a fast-growing, international retail brand
- A high level of ownership and autonomy, with the opportunity to take responsibility for your markets and make a real impact
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Time off that counts 25 holidays per year (fulltime) plus tenure-based extra days (2 after 1 year, 3 after 2 years)
- Company pension plan
- Travel support reimbursement if living more than 10 km from HQ
- Wellbeing support collaboration with ClassPass and unlimited mental health support via OpenUp
- Optical perks continuous free updates of your eyewear collection plus great discounts
- Healthy lunches & snacks daily nutritious lunch and healthy snacks
- A culture to love participation in events planned by our CultureClub
Skills Required
- Experience in sourcing, procurement, quality assurance, or supply chain management
- Experience in fashion, eyewear, or another consumer product category
- Proven ability to independently manage supplier performance and quality programs end to end
- Hands-on knowledge of MDR, CE marking, and ISO standards
- Experience with eyewear, medical devices, or similarly regulated products
- Experience negotiating supplier commercial agreements and payment terms
- Ability to develop supplier scorecards, conduct risk assessments, and build dashboards
- Ability to develop business cases, identify opportunities, and influence stakeholders
- Proactive, independent ownership and initiative
- Fluent English
- Ability to work from or commute to the Amsterdam headquarters
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The Company
What We Do
Hi, we’re Ace & Tate and we make glasses. It sounds fairly simple, and that’s the whole point. We’re here to inject a good dose of common sense into our industry by making well-designed, quality eyewear at an affordable price. Great fits that last, for all eyes. With 650 eyewear experts across 85 lively and impressive (if we may say so ourselves) stores in 9 countries, we're here to guarantee our customers always enjoy the view.
