Logistics & Purchasing Manager - Home & Living

📍 Work model: 100% remote (after onboarding)

Location-flexible across Europe, ME & Asia (within compatible time zones)

You choose your own working hours — once set, we ask for consistency so the team can coordinate

Freelancer contract

Starting date: 24th August

🌐 Languages:

• English fluent (C1 or higher)
• Spanish is a plus

💼 Experience:

• Strong experience in international purchasing & logistics in Home & Living / Furniture & Home Decor / Consumer Goods (physical products), including large or heavy item shipping.
• This role requires hands-on purchasing experience with physical consumer goods — a background limited to industrial or energy logistics won't be a fit.
• E-commerce or DTC brand experience required.

💰 Salary:

• 30,000–35,000 euros per year
• Performance-based annual bonus up to 15%

About Salaterra

Salaterra is an international furniture and home décor brand with Spanish roots, focused on premium design and global distribution. We operate with a small, agile team and work with international suppliers, serving customers in more than 30 countries.

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic and internationally minded professional who wants to grow with a small but fast-scaling company. This is a hands-on role in a startup environment, ideal for someone who enjoys building, improving and scaling processes, taking ownership and having direct impact on business performance. You will report directly to the COO and play a key role in structuring and optimizing purchasing and logistics operations as the company grows.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and optimize international purchasing and logistics (import/export)
• Follow up purchase orders from suppliers to final customer delivery
• Work with international suppliers, with direct experience in Asia (China preferred)
• Improve costs, lead times and logistics efficiency
• Coordinate shipments and warehouse inbound operations
• Handle logistics incidents and implement preventive processes
• Build and maintain operational reports and dashboards (costs, lead times, margins, incidents)
• Collaborate closely with customer service and sales
• Manage one purchasing/logistics assistant

Who we're looking for

• At least 6 years of experience in international purchasing & logistics
• At least 3 years specifically in purchasing for Home & Living / Furniture & Home Decor / Consumer Goods (physical products), including large or heavy item shipping
• Direct experience sourcing or managing suppliers in Asia (China preferred)
• Strong understanding of import/export and international transport, including large or heavy goods
• Data-driven mindset — advanced Excel/spreadsheets and dashboards; experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) is a plus
• Hands-on, proactive and execution-driven mindset
• Comfortable working in a startup / scale-up environment
• Ambitious profile looking to grow professionally as the company scales

Fluent in English; Spanish is a plus

Why join us

• Real responsibility and ownership from day one
• Direct exposure to decision-making
• Small team (6 people), fast execution, no bureaucracy
• Opportunity to evolve into a Head of Operations / Supply Chain role
• International environment with growth potential