Material sourcing Manager to Kappahl

Founded in 1953 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Kappahl Group is a leading fashion chain in the Nordics, with around 370 Kappahl and Newbie stores, and Shop Online in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Poland and the UK.

The Kappahl team consists of some 4,000 colleagues at 400 workplaces in 10 countries, all with different backgrounds, ages, skills and styles. Our common motivation is to offer fashion fit for life to a wide variety of people and lifestyles. A Responsible Fashion that that feels right, for the bearer and for the world we live in. Today, 70% of the products are labelled as more sustainable. Kappahl’s goal is for 100% to be made of more sustainable materials by 2025.
More information at www.kappahl.com.


Welcome to workdays filled with development, creativity, and fantastic colleagues! Kappahl is growing – join our successful journey. We are now recruiting a new role to make even more difference.

Kappahl exist to celebrate diversity in everyday life. We want to broaden the definition of diversity to include many ways of living life – empowering people to stay true to themselves at any given time, our customers as well as our employees.

We offer you Everyday life as a Material sourcing manager is to search for innovation, sustainable solutions and coordinate the sourcing of fabric to meet the business goals. You will be responsible to lead and assure that goals and actions regarding material sourcing integrates in strategies and are aligned with sustainability and price targets. Guide and support colleagues across the organisation to ensure that sourcing process implements and follows up at Business Units.

Continuously monitor and evaluate sustainable solutions, innovation and trends related to material development. As a member of the Business Units Sustainability Team, collaborate with Assortment and Production teams, act with focus on Kappahl as a group. You are reporting to Sustainability Manager Business Units.

Your profile You have a technical academic degree in textile, fashion, sustainability, or another relevant field. Experience working with fabrics in similar role, experience from textile in an international supply chain extra merited. Good knowledge about design process, quality, material development and production processes. Understanding of fashion products effect on people and the environment, through a life cycle perspective. You have the ability to take lead and to manage change. You will need to be fluent in English.

Your personality You are powered by challenges and have a heart for development and problem solving, react quickly on changed demands, can easily adapt and come up with new ideas to meet new challenges. 

Good communication skills. Be able to convey messages and information in a clear and enthused way. You have the ability to think strategically and act operationally. You thrive best in a developing environment where no day is the same.

You are a natural and inclusive leader who acts with integrity and secureness in a multicultural environment. Further, you are used to have many contacts areas and good cooperation is self-evident for you.
Experience is great, really, at the same time we believe that if you love what you do, experience and competence will come along the way.
Of course, you recognize yourself in our values: Joyful, Inclusive and Courageous.

Are you interested? The positions are permanent, placed at our head office in Mölndal. Kappahl wants to be A Place To Belong therefore we work with a hybrid working environment. Which means you can work remotely when it is more suitable for your work schedule. We look forward to your application by 30th of April.