Strategic Sourcing Lead - Promotional Merchandise

Reachdesk; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with stock options

Pension with employer contributions (N

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible PTO

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Reachdesk is looking for a Sourcing Manager to lead supplier relationships and manage promotional merchandise sourcing for global campaigns. You will negotiate rates, build a vendor network, and shape how we source, curate, and deliver branded products at scale.

You will own end-to-end sourcing, collaborate with Swag, Production, and Sales, and drive cost-efficient, high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing promotional merchandise or branded products, working directly with suppliers and decorators.
• Proven supplier, decorator 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
• Able to manage workload effectively in a fast paced, high pressure environment
• 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 relationships

Negotiation

Vendor management

Pricing strategy

Sourcing

Tools

CommonSKU

Hoops

MPower Promo

Netsuite

Salesforce

Hubspot

Job description

Reachdesk is looking for a Sourcing Manager to lead supplier relationships and manage promotional merchandise sourcing for global campaigns. You will negotiate rates, build a vendor network, and shape how we source, curate, and deliver branded products at scale.

You will own end-to-end sourcing, collaborate with Swag, Production, and Sales, and drive cost-efficient, high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.