Sourcing Leader, Promotional Merchandise (Remote UK)

Reachdesk; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with generous stock

Pension with employer contributions (N

Affordable Private Medical Insurance,

Flexible PTO

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Reachdesk is seeking a Sourcing Manager for Promotional Merchandise to lead supplier relationships, negotiate pricing, and manage the end-to-end sourcing of branded products for global campaigns. This UK-based, remote-enabled role focuses on building a scalable vendor network and ensuring high quality, on-brand merchandise at scale.

You will work cross-functionally with Swag, Production, and Sales to curate catalogs, optimize costs, and drive continuous improvement in procurement processes while

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing promotional merchandise or branded products, working directly with suppliers and decorators.
• Proven supplier or vendor management experience, including negotiating pricing, terms, and agreements.
• Strong understanding of design principles and ability to communicate them clearly.
• Experience using promotional product software such as CommonSKU, Hoops, MPower Promo, Netsuite, or similar.
• Experience using CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Hubspot, or similar.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise multiple workstreams across internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy across orders, pricing, and fulfilment.
• Strong business acumen with a cost-conscious mindset.
• Strong communication skills with a collaborative, team oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Source, evaluate, and select suppliers for promotional products and branded merchandise.
• Build out our vendor network as the business scales.
• Build a vendor vetting process that aligns with business values.
• Negotiate pricing and terms with vendors to achieve cost savings and favorable agreements.
• Set pricing that balances market competitiveness with strong margin performance for Reachdesk.
• Apply sustainable and scalable methodologies to pricing swag decoration to maximize Reachdesk’s margins while minimizing the time to quote these services.
• Ensure all items available to purchase are accurately priced, stocked, and meet the quality standards of our clients.
• Maintain strong, long-term relationships with key suppliers and oversee quality control.
• Curate and create commercially compelling product catalogs and lookbooks that enable sales teams to sell across a variety of client use cases.
• Procurement & Order Management
• Place orders with partner vendors & track production schedules.
• Oversee large or complex orders requiring multiple vendors or custom product development.
• Track individual performance to ensure quarterly targets set by the leadership team are achieved.
• Collaborate with warehouse and logistics partners to streamline global fulfillment.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent sourcing requests, balancing speed, cost, and quality across multiple stakeholders.
• Process & Collaboration
• Provide guidance and support to production specialists.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives in procurement & order management processes.
• Establish and evolve SOPs, working closely with cross-functional teams to continuously improve workflows and tools.

Skills

Supplier management

Negotiation

Vendor relationship management

Sourcing strategy

Communication

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

CommonSKU

Hoops

MPower Promo

Netsuite

Salesforce

HubSpot

Job description

Reachdesk is seeking a Sourcing Manager for Promotional Merchandise to lead supplier relationships, negotiate pricing, and manage the end-to-end sourcing of branded products for global campaigns. This UK-based, remote-enabled role focuses on building a scalable vendor network and ensuring high quality, on-brand merchandise at scale.

You will work cross-functionally with Swag, Production, and Sales to curate catalogs, optimize costs, and drive continuous improvement in procurement processes while