Purchasing Coordinator

LVMH; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

LVMH Beauty Division Italy is seeking a Purchasing Coordinator to lead negotiation and management of indirect categories, ensuring best value and strong supplier relationships. The role involves end-to-end sourcing, tendering, and contract execution, plus onboarding suppliers and driving governance.

You will collaborate with Legal and Finance, support spend optimization, and report to the Purchasing Director, with a discretionary annual bonus and Italian employment terms.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Solid experience in a purchasing/procurement role within complex, structured, or multinational environments.
• Excellent negotiation, networking, and analytical skills.
• Strong problem-solving aptitude with a proactive, customer-oriented mindset.
• Team player with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluent in Italian and English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Category Management & Spend Control: Manage and optimize spending for indirect categories.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Monitor supplier performance and ensure contractual compliance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Legal and Finance to align on requirements.
• Tender & Sourcing Process: Define specs, run tenders, analyze quotes, provide purchasing recommendations.
• Negotiation & Contracting: Negotiate terms and execute contracts to optimize commercial terms.
• Operational Purchasing: Approve POs and onboard new suppliers in the system.
• Compliance & Auditing: Initiate and follow up on social & ethical audits where applicable.
• Reporting & Governance: Manage supplier panel and report performance metrics to Purchasing Director.

Education

Master’s degree in Economics/Business Administration/Engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

This position is part of the Purchasing team for the LVMH Beauty Division Italy, partnering with a prestigious portfolio of Maisons including Parfums Christian Dior, Acqua di Parma, Guerlain, Givenchy, Kenzo, Benefit Cosmetics, Make Up For Ever, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Officine Universelle Buly and Loewe.

Mission

Reporting to the Purchasing Director, the Purchasing Coordinator will lead the negotiation and management of indirect categories, ensuring the best value for the company while maintaining strong supplier relationships and driving operational excellence.

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Category Management & Spend Control: Manage and optimize spending for indirect categories.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Monitor supplier performance, ensure adherence to contractual agreements and quality standards, build effective and long-lasting partnerships, and define supplier mapping to source strategic new partners.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner actively with internal stakeholders (including Legal and Finance departments) to anticipate needs, align on business requirements, and provide proactive procurement support.
• Tender & Sourcing Process: Handle the end-to-end bidding process—defining specifications, conducting tenders, analyzing quotations, and delivering strategic purchasing recommendations.
• Negotiation & Contracting: Negotiate and award business to selected suppliers; review, revise, and execute formal contracts to optimize commercial terms and ensure full compliance.
• Operational Purchasing: Approve Purchase Orders (POs) and manage the onboarding and creation of new suppliers within the system.
• Compliance & Auditing: Initiate, coordinate, and follow up on Social & Ethical audits where applicable.
• Reporting & Governance: Manage the supplier panel and report regularly to the Purchasing Director on performance metrics, spend bypasses, purchasing initiatives, and audit results.

Profile

Requirements & Profile

• Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Solid experience in a purchasing/procurement role within complex, structured, or multinational environments.
• Excellent negotiation, networking, and analytical skills.
• Strong problem-solving aptitude with a proactive, customer-oriented mindset.
• Team player with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Technical Skills: proficiency in MS Office (Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and SAP
• Fluent in both Italian and English (written and spoken).

Additional information

For new joiners in this role in Italy, the initial annual gross salary is starting from 40.000 Euro.

This salary has been determined on the basis of objective and gender-neutral criteria and corresponds to the compensation normally granted for this position at the time of publication of this job posting. Actual compensation may vary depending on factors such as your unique combination of experience and skills, seniority, and current organizational needs. This role also provides for participation in an annual discretionary bonus scheme, determined at LVMH Profumi e Cosmetici Italia’s sole discretion based on individual and/or company performance.

In addition to the benefits provided by law, further benefits may be granted in accordance with current company policies. The employment relationship will be governed by the provisions of the applicable national collective bargaining agreement CCNL Commercio (starting from II Level) as applied by LVMH Profumi e Cosmetici Italia.