Fabric Lead, Global Supply Chain

Bestseller Textilhandels GmbH; Aarhus; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

BESTSELLER is seeking a Fabric Lead to strengthen how we work with fabrics across the organisation. You will develop fabric standards, collaborate with brands and suppliers, and turn insights into concrete sourcing improvements.

You will lead cross-functional efforts, manage supplier relationships, and align fabric decisions with commercial goals while traveling internationally as needed.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with fabrics including sourcing and development.
• Ability to translate fabric insights into commercial decisions.
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Develop BESTSELLER's fabric standards and strategies.
• Strengthen supplier setup and identify new sourcing opportunities.
• Collaborate with brands, mills and suppliers on sourcing projects.
• Turn market intelligence into improvements in sourcing and product development.

Skills

Fabric sourcing

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Supplier relationship management

Analytical negotiations

Job description

Do you combine deep fabric expertise with the commercial understanding needed to strengthen how BESTSELLER works with fabrics across our organisation?

As our Fabric Lead, you will join Global Supply Chain in a newly created role with the opportunity to strengthen how we work with fabrics across BESTSELLER. You will bring specialist fabric expertise into the organisation, connect knowledge across the business and turn fabric insights into concrete improvements in sourcing, product development and commercial decisions.

YOUR TEAM

Global Supply Chain is a key strategic function at BESTSELLER, connecting our brands with a global network of sourcing offices, suppliers and business partners. In this role, you will report to our Global Supply Chain Director and work closely with our brands and Fabric teams across countries, bringing knowledge together and supporting a more aligned approach to fabrics across BESTSELLER. You will also collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Türkiye, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Denmark and Hong Kong. Trust, ownership and collaboration define how we work, and international coordination is an integral part of everyday business.

YOUR JOB

Your focus will be to strengthen how BESTSELLER works with fabrics across the organisation. You will work closely with our brands, sourcing offices, mills and suppliers to develop fabric standards, strengthen our supplier setup and identify new sourcing opportunities. As Fabric Lead, you will use market intelligence and your knowledge of fabrics, suppliers and cost drivers to create greater transparency and turn opportunities into concrete improvements in how we source and develop fabrics. A key part of the role will be working closely with our brands to understand their product needs and ensure that relevant fabric opportunities and solutions are brought into the business.

More specifically, you will:

• Develop BESTSELLER's overall approach to fabrics , including common standards, principles and fabric strategies
• Drive fabric-related opportunities that improve competitiveness, cost transparency, product innovation and supplier partnerships across BESTSELLER
• Build strategic relationships with our brands, mills and suppliers, strengthen our supplier landscape and identify new sourcing opportunities
• Bring specialist fabric expertise into key sourcing projects through cross-functional collaboration, supplier dialogue and commercial negotiations

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

This is a newly created role with the opportunity to influence BESTSELLER's future fabric agenda and help build the role as it develops. You can also look forward to:

• Significant responsibility and the opportunity to apply your fabric expertise at a strategic level
• Close collaboration with BESTSELLER's Global Supply Chain Director and key stakeholders across the organisation
• An international role connecting brands, sourcing offices, mills and suppliers across our global sourcing network

YOUR PROFILE

You bring fabric expertise combined with a strong commercial and strategic understanding of sourcing. You are proactive, work independently, take ownership and confidently navigate across stakeholders and functions in a complex international organisation. We believe you have built your experience within fabric sourcing, material development, mill management or buying, where fabrics have been an important part of your work. You understand both the technical and commercial side of fabrics and how material choices influence the final product.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has extensive experience with fabrics, including strategic fabric sourcing, material development and supplier collaboration
• Understands how fabric choices influence quality, performance, cost and commercial decisions
• Builds strong collaboration across internal and external stakeholders
• Has solid analytical and negotiation skills
• Is fluent in English, both written and spoken

Travel:

Around 30 travel days per year are expected as part of the role.

ABOUT BESTSELLER

At BESTSELLER, we are more than 20,000 people in 38 different countries working for over 20 fashion brands such as JACK & JONES, SELECTED, VERO MODA, ONLY, PIECES, VILA, OBJECT, MAMALICIOUS, NAME IT, NOISY MAY and Y.A.S. We are a family-owned company with a strong foundation and values to build on, empowering us to pursue the ideas we believe in to take BESTSELLER forward. We are committed to diversity and provide equal opportunities for everyone, irrespective of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strive to create an empowering environment where people can thrive and develop. For more information, visit www.bestseller.com.

You will become part of the BESTSELLER family, a culture where new ideas are welcomed, and all voices are heard. We believe in entrepreneurship; this means you have the freedom to do this in the way which works for you. You get responsibility and the opportunity to develop yourself and your area from day one. We believe in flexibility and autonomy in your daily routine and working location.

At BESTSELLER, we own it. Every chance. Every challenge. Every choice. We’re the global fashion company that’s fast paced and family run. We’re the business that’s built some of the strongest brands in the industry. By empowering every individual to own their journey, we’ve found the courage to keep getting better. To act more sustainably. To foster diversity and provide equal opportunities. To compete more confidently. And to keep challenging the status quo. Time and time again. We are BESTSELLER - and together, we own it.