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Founded in 2020, unybrands is the next-generation brand accelerator platform built to acquire, integrate, and scale digital-first consumer brands. Headquartered in Miami, with offices in New York, London, Berlin, and Shenzhen, our 240+ team brings deep expertise across e-commerce, brand management, consumer retail, operational scaling, and M&A. Since inception, we have acquired 30+ brands across Pet Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Supplements, Baby & Juvenile, Garden & Outdoor, Sports & Fitness, and Home & Lifestyle — completing 20+ acquisitions and delivering 16 consecutive quarters of like-for-like organic growth post-integration.
Our competitive advantage lies in a fully integrated operating system purpose-built to transform digital brands into omni-channel category leaders. Powered by a proprietary technology stack built on NetSuite ERP with 200+ data integrations, our platform enables brands to thrive across marketplaces, direct-to-consumer channels, and brick-and-mortar retail. We focus on acquiring digital-first brands within carefully selected verticals, then applying tailored value creation playbooks that drive growth through innovation, expansion, and automation.
We believe the next generation of consumer brands will be built differently — and we're building the AI-enabled retail tech platform to help them consolidate and win. About the Role The Sourcing Specialist is a hands-on, supplier-facing role within our global sourcing and procurement team, supporting a portfolio of suppliers spread across several countries and time zones. The initial focus is our consumables supply base - products that are consumed or ingested, and which therefore carry higher specification, traceability and compliance requirements than general merchandise.
Day to day, you will manage supplier communication, prepare and analyze RFQs, drive new product development timelines, and keep projects moving. You will work closely with our category managers, and the shape of the role is expected to develop: as you establish yourself, there is real scope to take on greater commercial responsibility, including negotiation and elements of category ownership.
We are looking for someone who wants that trajectory and will grow into it. You will spend a large part of your week in direct contact with factories - chasing samples, resolving specification questions, pushing on timelines, and building the working relationships that make a supply base responsive. Key Responsibilities Supplier Management & Communication Act as a day-to-day point of contact for a portfolio of suppliers, maintaining momentum on open topics and holding suppliers to agreed commitments.
Build genuine working relationships with factory-side counterparts - commercial, technical and production. Track supplier responsiveness, sample lead times, on-time delivery and open issues, and escalate risks early. Prepare and support supplier business reviews: assemble the performance data, capture actions, and follow up until closure.
Support supplier onboarding - questionnaires, documentation, compliance packs, banking and agreement paperwork. RFQs & Competitive Sourcing Build RFQ packages: specifications, drawings, packaging requirements, volumes, target costs and commercial terms. Identify and qualify new and challenger suppliers through market research, directories, trade shows and referrals.
Manage the RFQ process end to end - issue, chase, clarify, and consolidate supplier responses to deadline . Analyze quotations on a like-for-like basis, building comparison models that account for unit cost, tooling, MOQ, freight, duty and total landed cost. Present clear, evidence-based sourcing recommendations, and suppo