Sourcing Executive (Beauty Box) | Lookfantastic

THG; Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

On-site gym

Staff discount on THG brands

Birthday/anniversary recognition

Job summary

THG in Manchester is seeking a motivated Beauty Box Sourcing Executive to own end-to-end category sourcing, build strong brand partnerships and drive commercial performance.

You'll manage budgets, negotiate with brands, track ROI, coordinate samples, and contribute to planning with insights from data. This role offers clear ownership and growth within THG Beauty.

Qualifications

• Experience in a buying, sourcing, partnerships, or commercial role.
• Beauty or subscription experience is a strong advantage.
• Strong budgeting and ROI understanding. Ability to pitch to brands.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end category sourcing and delivery for Beauty Box products.
• Build and grow brand partnerships, negotiate product and commercial terms.
• Analyse performance data and ROI to inform sourcing decisions.
• Manage category budgets and present actionable recommendations to the Senior Sourcing Manager.
• Oversee contract management and ensure timely, well-documented agreements.
• Coordinate product samples for photoshoots and content teams.

Skills

Sourcing

Negotiation

Budget management

Category management

Brand partnerships

Job description

About THG

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.

About THG

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition. Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition. From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG. With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for?

Life at THG Beauty

We know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic. By combining our portfolio of owned brands inclusive of ESPA, Ameliorate and Christophe Robin, with a marketplace for over 1,300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online. THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader.

The Opportunity

As a Beauty Box Sourcing Executive, you'll play a key role in supporting the delivery of our Beauty Box offering. Working closely with the wider team, you'll help bring products together and ensure we're delivering exciting, well-executed boxes each month.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning the end-to-end commercial performance of one or more Beauty Box product categories, delivering a sourcing strategy that aligns with customer trends, brand mix, product performance, and commercial targets.
• Building, managing and growing brand partnerships within your category, proactively pitching the Beauty Box proposition, negotiating product, marketing and commercial agreements, and securing the best possible value while protecting business objectives.
• Using performance data and customer insight to drive decision-making, analysing ROI, product satisfaction, and customer feedback to shape future sourcing recommendations and strengthen category performance.
• Managing category budgets and commercial reporting, maintaining visibility of cost positions, identifying risks and opportunities, and presenting actionable recommendations to the Senior Sourcing Manager.
• Overseeing contract management across your category, ensuring agreements are accurate, completed on time, appropriately escalated for legal review where required, and fully documented.
• Maintaining accurate sourcing and project tracking, ensuring reliable, up-to-date information is available to support planning and decision-making.
• Contributing to team success through category expertise and stakeholder communication, sharing market insight, preparing presentations, and representing your category in team meetings and wider business forums.
• Requesting, coordinating, and tracking product samples from brands for photoshoots and the social media team, following up to ensure timely delivery and avoid delays to content or campaign timelines.

Key areas of ownership

• Category sourcing strategy and delivery
• Brand pitching and negotiation
• Contract management and legal escalation
• Performance analysis and budget tracking
• Category knowledge sharing
• Sample tracking and coordination

Who We're Looking For

You are commercially driven, delivery-focused, and ready to take real ownership of your area. You understand that execution and strategy go hand in hand, and you hold yourself to a high standard on both.

• Experience in a buying, sourcing, partnerships, or commercial role, with beauty or subscription experience a strong advantage.
• Confident in pitching and negotiating with brand partners, with a track record of securing strong commercial outcomes.
• Commercially sharp, with a solid understanding of budgets, ROI, and what good performance looks like.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple brands, timelines, and priorities simultaneously without losing attention to detail.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset. You identify problems early and drive them to resolution.
• A collaborative team player who actively contributes knowledge and supports the wider team's success.
• Genuine passion for beauty, brand, and the customer experience.

What’s in it for me?

Career Development

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.

Wellbeing Support

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP.
• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
• State-of-the-art on-site gym.
• Access to our on-site physio.

Other Perks

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
• On-site staff shop.
• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.