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Sourcing & Procurement Specialist

unybrands

Responsibilities

  • timelines, and building the working relationships that make a supply base responsive.
  • 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

  • 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,
  • RFQs & Competitive Sourcing
  • Build RFQ packages: specifications, drawings, packaging requirements, volumes, target
  • shows
  • Manage the RFQ process end to end - issue, chase, clarify, and
  • consolidate
  • supplier responses to
  • deadline
  • Present clear, evidence-based sourcing recommendations, and support negotiations with cost breakdowns, benchmark
  • inputs
  • Take a lead role in negotiations as your experience and

New Product Development & Project Management

  • Run NPD projects from brief to first production: manage the critical path, own the timeline, and chase every dependency.
  • Coordinate sample rounds between brand,
  • quality

feedback

  • and approvals.
  • Work with brand and creative colleagues on packaging artwork,
  • dielines
  • and labelling requirements, ensuring supplier feasibility.
  • Maintain project trackers with
  • Flag slippage early with a proposed recovery plan rather than a status update.

Compliance & Quality Support

  • Collect and maintain supplier documentation: certificates of analysis, ingredient and nutritional declarations, facility registrations, audit reports and test certificates.
  • Support the compliance requirements that apply to consumable and regulated products - facility registration, labelling, product
  • registration
  • and import documentation - working with our Quality and Compliance colleagues.
  • Support lot traceability, shelf-
  • Coordinate third-party testing and inspection
  • bookings, and
  • follow up on corrective actions arising from quality issues.
  • Data, Documentation & Reporting

agreements

  • and supplier contact data.
  • Keep the supplier and product data you generate clean,

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

Key Responsibilities

  • delivery and open issues, and escalate banking and agreement paperwork.
  • costs and commercial terms.
  • Identify and qualify new and challenger suppliers through market research, directories, trade and referrals.
  • Analyze quotations on a like-for-like basis, building comparison models that account for unit cost, tooling, MOQ, freight,
  • duty and total landed cost.
  • data and should-cost category knowledge develop and supplier - tracking versions,
  • accurate status,
  • owners and dates, and give a straight account of where projects genuinely stand.
  • life and ingredient-origin requirements across the supply base.
  • Maintain accurate sourcing records: quotations, price lists, cost breakdowns,
  • current and ready for use in our ERP and reporting.