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About the Role
As HOLY transitions into a global omnichannel brand, merchandise sourcing is crucial for campaign virality and customer loyalty. This role involves end-to-end ownership of merchandise, including sourcing, negotiation, supplier network development, and establishing scalable quality and compliance processes. You will collaborate with Design, Brand, and Finance teams to transform merchandise into a well-governed engine.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end procurement for campaign, event, and collaboration merchandise, including supplier selection, negotiation, production follow-up, MOQ and capacity management, and on-time delivery.
- Partner with Design and Campaigns to translate ideas into feasible, manufacturable products.
- Build long-term strategic partnerships for evergreen products, focusing on cost, quality, and lead times.
- Implement a faster, more flexible approach for campaign merchandise with greater supplier optionality.
- Own framework agreements, contracts, and NDAs, and develop a preferred supplier portfolio and supplier guidelines.
- Define quality standards and scalable QA processes, including defect handling, root-cause analysis, and multi-country labeling and certification compliance.
- Act as a key contact for merchandise quality issues from CS, retail, and customers.
- Own the merchandise product taxonomy, attributes, and cross-sell relationships.
- Provide enriched product data to Design and Campaign/Activation teams.
- Equip Finance with landed cost sheets and PO/commitment reporting.
- Support freight/forwarder decisions to optimize shipping costs and timelines.
- Build repeatable sourcing processes and supplier performance metrics to support international growth.
Requirements
- 5+ years in merchandise, packaging, or promotional-product sourcing/procurement.
- Proven success negotiating supplier contracts and pricing across multiple countries.
- Established relationships with, or ability to quickly build, manufacturers across the EU and Asia.
- Experience setting up QA frameworks, defect/root-cause processes, and multi-country labeling and certification requirements.
- Comfortable building landed-cost models and PO/commitment tracking.
- Proven ability to partner with Design, Brand/Campaign, and Finance teams.
- Ability to juggle multiple fast-moving campaign timelines.
- Experience creating scalable processes, documentation, and supplier guidelines from scratch.
- Fluent in English; German is a plus.
Skills
- Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Procurement
- Supplier Management
- Quality Assurance
- Compliance
- Product Data Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Process Improvement
- Analytical Skills
- Financial Fluency
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation
- Company shares
- Meaningful equity
Benefits
- Productive working environment
- Opportunities for growth
- Company shares
- Huge impact
- Awesome team
- Top product
- Startup culture
- Flat hierarchies
- Fast pace
- Personal development
- Central office in Berlin Prenzlauerberg
- Flexible working hours
- Strong salary
- Meaningful equity
About the Company
- HOLY is a soft drink revolution offering amazing taste across 50+ flavors with a focus on health and the environment.
- Europe's fastest-growing consumer brand with over 2M loyal customers.
- Scaled profitably to over €180M D2C revenue in DACH, FR, UK, and PL.
- Transitioning from D2C to a global omnichannel brand.
- Backed by top consumer investors aiming to revolutionize the soft drink industry.
- Team of 200+ people with ambitious goals.
- Differentiated soft drinks that have won over customers.
Equal Opportunity
- Holy Softdrinks GmbH is an equal opportunity workplace and is devoted to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
- If you have a specific need that requires assistant in the application process, please reach out to our People Team at jobs@holy.com.