International Purchasing Innovation

NoëmieGateau

de Valmont

An international buyer with a creator’s eye.

I spot the supplier nobody else did, and the reason a customer picks you over everyone else.

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Portrait of Noëmie Gateau
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Trilingual
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Community grown
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Continents sold to
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Languages spoken
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TOEIC · English
01 / The bridge

I learned the customer before I learned the contract.

A price is just a number. What it buys is the part I actually read: the product, the brand, and the people who make it.

For three years I worked where customers actually are: storefronts, feeds, inboxes, the small moment when someone decides to trust a brand. I grew a community to ten thousand, sold on four continents, and built trips people saved up for. I know what makes someone choose.

Now I work upstream, where those choices are really decided: who you source from, how you negotiate, what you refuse to compromise. The same instinct, earlier in the chain. I do it in three languages, and I’d rather build something that lasts than win on margin alone.

01 / SOURCE

Source

The right supplier is out there. I find them, I read the offer behind the price, and I negotiate like the relationship has to last.

02 / BUILD

Build

A brief becomes a product. I turn intent into something real, with partners across borders.

03 / AMPLIFY

Amplify

Then I make people feel it: brand, story, community. The audience that grew by ten thousand grew on purpose.

02 / The itinerary

The route so far.

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2022
41.39°N · BARCELONA

The Story Tailors

E-commerce & operations · Internship
4 continents · 3 marketplaces
2022
44.84°N · BORDEAUX

Les Ateliers Résilience

Procurement assistant · Internship
Where purchasing clicked
2023
44.84°N · BORDEAUX

Mauriac Voyages

Assistant product manager · Alternance
Bespoke luxury · B2B negotiation
2024
40.71°N · NEW YORK

Destinations Off Road

Community manager · Internship
+10,000 · ~6 months
25–26
44.84°N · BORDEAUX

Kedge Business School

Master 2 · Seeking alternance
Junior buyer, now
03 / Selected work

What I’ve already built.

New York · 2024 · Community manager

Destinations Off Road

+10,000 followers · ~6 months

A French travel brand wanted America to notice them. I built the voice that did it: social, content, and SEO that ranked city by city. The audience passed ten thousand while the account was mine.

SocialSEOContentAnalytics
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Bordeaux · 2023 · APM

Mauriac Voyages

Bespoke luxury itineraries

Luxury leaves no room for error. I sourced and negotiated the partners, shaped itineraries down to the smallest detail, and rebuilt the website and newsletters around what those travelers truly wanted.

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Barcelona · 2022 · E-commerce

The Story Tailors

Europe · Asia · America · Oceania

One product, four continents. I ran the marketplaces (Amazon, Etsy, Geschenkidee), looked after customers in two languages, worked with the influencers, and squared the invoices with partners like Aldi and Next UK.

E-commerceZendeskOperations
Bordeaux · 2022 · Procurement

Les Ateliers Résilience

Where the craft began

Where I learned the craft from the ground up. I kept the shelves full, weighed new suppliers against each other, and ran the paperwork that everything quietly depends on.

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The rule I work by

I buy like the customer is watching.

04 / Capabilities

What you’re hiring.

Purchasing & supply
Supplier sourcing & comparative analysis
B2B commercial negotiation
Order & supply tracking
Purchasing administration (POs, invoicing)
Responsible / sustainable sourcing
Marketing & digital
Product management
Content & SEO copywriting
Community management & brand strategy
Customer relations & service (Zendesk)
Tools
Excel · TOSAMicrosoft 365Adobe SuiteCanvaWordPressZendeskRezdyTrello
Languages
FrenchNative
EnglishC1 · 975/990
SpanishB2
Noëmie Gateau
05 / Contact

Looking for a junior buyer?

Next year I’ll join one team for my master’s alternance. I’d love it to be people who care as much about how things are made as how they sell. If that sounds like you, I’d really like to hear from you.

Noëmie Gateau · Bordeaux, France · 44.84°N Designed & built 2026 · FR / EN