Supply Chain Inbound Manager

Acne Studios; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 558,000 - 781,200; Full time

Job summary

Acne Studios is seeking a Supply Chain Inbound Manager to lead inbound logistics at our Stockholm HQ. This role involves optimizing global inbound flows, ensuring reliable, timely, and cost-efficient transport solutions while maintaining strong relationships with suppliers.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in a related field and at least three years of experience in logistics or supply chain management. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, leveraging your organizational skills and problem-solving mindset to drive efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years of professional experience within logistics or supply chain management.
• Experience in retail, fashion, or global supply chain environments is a strong advantage.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead and optimize inbound logistics operations across the global supply chain.
• Oversee global inbound flows ensuring smooth coordination and execution.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and freight forwarders.

Skills

Problem-solving mindset

Strong communication skills

Organizational skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain, logistics, or a related field

Tools

Microsoft D365

Dispatcher WMS

QlikView

Power BI

Job description

Acne Studios is a progressive luxury house and through collaboration and curiosity, we set high aspirations and strive for excellence. We value everyone’s contribution and embrace feedback to develop ourselves and others. We aim to minimise our environmental impact across all our operations and to address societal challenges in the way we conduct our business.

As Supply Chain Inbound Manager at our Stockholm HQ, you will take ownership of the global inbound flow of goods across Acne Studios' Supply Chain. You ensure that products move from suppliers to warehouses and appointed locations in a way that is timely, cost-efficient, and sustainable. The role combines operational excellence with continuous improvement: challenging existing processes, reducing manual work, and implementing tools and ways of working that drive efficiency and transparency across the supply chain.

CULTURE OF COLLABORATION

We firmly believe that when you feel supported, included, and trusted, it enables you to enjoy your work and thrive in it. You will be a part of a team of colleagues with diverse roles and backgrounds, each with their unique skills and experiences.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As Supply Chain Inbound Manager, your main responsibility is to lead and optimise inbound logistics operations, ensuring reliability, transparency, and efficiency across the global supply chain. You will report to the Supply Chain Manager EMEA and lead a team of two, driving end-to-end inbound performance by:

• Leading and developing the SC Inbound team, ensuring clear ownership, balanced workload, and continuous growth
• Overseeing global inbound flows, ensuring smooth coordination, execution and full traceability across shipments from supplier to final destination
• Owning inbound reporting frameworks, driving accuracy, relevance, and increased automation across the organization
• Ensuring timely, cost-efficient and sustainable transport solutions through optimized freight partner selection and continuous performance and cost management
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers and freight forwarders to secure high execution quality, on-time-in-full delivery and planning accuracy
• Proactively identifying and communicating risks such as delays, shortages, quality issues, or changes impacting the inbound flow
• Representing Supply Chain in commercial forums, aligning inbound flow with business priorities and key events
• Defining and enforcing logistics requirements towards suppliers, including ownership of Shipping & Packing Guidelines updates
• Driving continuous improvement of inbound processes, systems, and forecasting in collaboration with key stakeholders

WHO YOU ARE

You have high aspirations and focus on details that create substantial impact. You enjoy working as a team and you embrace feedback to develop yourself and others. You are curious and thrive in a dynamic environment. Cooperation, respect, and clear communication are important, along with your ambition to learn and grow. If these qualities speak to you, we would love to have you on our team.

Specific personal qualities for this role:

• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to identify root causes and drive solutions
• Highly organized, action-oriented, and attentive to detail
• Comfortable managing multiple parallel processes and understanding cross-functional dependencies
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Continuously seeks opportunities to improve and develop processes
• A collaborative team player who leads with clarity, accountability, and trust

Specific experience and knowledge for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply chain, logistics, or a related field
• At least three years of professional experience within logistics or supply chain management
• Experience from retail, fashion, or global supply chain environments is a strong advantage
• Previous leadership or people management experience is meriting
• Strong IT and system capability; proficiencyin ERP systems such as Microsoft D365, Dispatcher WMS, Centric PLM, and BI tools such as QlikView or Power BI is a plus
• Experience with AI,automation,and innovation is clearly meriting
• High proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

What matters most to us is not whether you master all the listed knowledge and skills. We are dedicated to recognising the potential in each individual. We embrace diversity of people as well as ideas and viewpoints and encourage everyone's individual expression of their own identity.