Loop Earplugs is reinventing how people experience the world by enabling them to live life at their own volume. 2024 was a pivotal year at Loop – we hit 14,000,000 earplugs sold, were named ‘The Best Earplugs for Concerts’ by The New York Times, and expanded our product offering to a complete range of solutions for day and night. Oh – and not to mention making history as the first company to win Deloitte’s Fast 50 Belgium twice.
But this is just the beginning. As we continue to develop disruptive products, we’re constantly on the lookout for the next big idea - and building a team who can make it happen.
Being a Looper means making a difference. Whatever your role, this is your stage to make a real impact and bring your ideas to life. Better yet, you’ll join a fast-growing, global team of 250+ people who are passionate, down-to-earth and eager to tackle challenges together.
Location: Antwerp or Amsterdam (Hybrid)
Experience: 7+ years in strategic sourcing or manufacturing procurement
As Senior Strategic Buyer at Loop, you take commercial ownership of the categories that enable our product roadmap. You define and execute sourcing strategies that directly support margin expansion, innovation readiness, and mass production scalability. From plastics and silicones to soft goods, packaging, and emerging materials, your decisions shape total cost, regional footprint, and supplier capability well before NPI begins.
You define and execute sourcing strategies aligned with margin targets, product roadmaps, and regional footprint strategy. You lead RFQs, conduct detailed cost breakdown analysis including should costing, tooling amortization, MOQ strategy, and landed cost optimization, and negotiate commercial frameworks that structurally reduce BOM cost while protecting quality and scalability.
You build and maintain a strategically positioned Approved Vendor List across relevant regions, ensuring suppliers are prepared for both current production and future innovation. In close collaboration with Sourcing and Industrialization, Engineering, and Quality, you ensure suppliers are DFM aligned, capacity validated, and ready for mass production ramp up. Cost, risk, and manufacturability trade offs are translated into clear recommendations that support confident product decisions.
We look for people who think long term, stay sharp under pressure, and go all in when impact is on the line. You combine analytical strength with commercial confidence. Cost structures invite you to go deeper. Engineering values your input because you understand manufacturing reality and DFM implications. Under launch pressure, you stay decisive and clear headed. You focus on what truly moves margin, supplier performance, and production readiness at scale.
Good. This role is about long term leverage, not short term wins. Loopers step in, define the direction, and build supply ecosystems that scale with ambition. If you are ready to see your strategy reflected in margin, supplier performance, and production readiness, press that beautiful apply button and let’s talk.
Our culture? We’re all about enabling growth by giving our team full autonomy to manage their own projects, be a thought leader, and truly make an impact on the company.
We take care of our people. So, we pay them what they’re worth. We benchmark each salary extensively against local market data.
Flexibility: For us, hybrid and flexible working is all about trust. And we trust you to get on with your job, so there’ll be no micromanaging or peeking over your shoulder from us.
Benefits: Our benefits are all aimed towards looking after your health, and enabling you to live life to the fullest. So everything from health insurance and retirement savings to the latest tools is covered.
Loop is an equal opportunities employer. We invest in diversity, ensure equality and encourage expression. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment, bias or discrimination towards applicants and employees.
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