Operational Sourcing Manager

As an Operational Sourcing Manager, you will own the operational sourcing lifecycle for selected physical product categories. Your mission is to turn approved product, campaign, and operational requirements into reliable supplier commitments, accurate product data, compliant goods, and on-time delivery.

What you'll do

• Own operational sourcing for assigned categories, from supplier research and quotations through supplier selection, purchase order, production, and delivery.
• Place and manage campaign, creator, fair, merchandise, and other operational orders once requirements, designs, product setups, and quantities are finalized.
• Maintain the supplier portfolio and manage day-to-day communication, operational terms, production follow-up, delivery timelines, and supplier guidelines.
• Track supplier performance, identify risks and delays early, and coordinate corrective actions to protect cost, quality, and availability.
• Support the development and setup of merchandise and other physical products by preparing design briefings, barcodes, specifications, and packaging information.
• Create and maintain accurate ERP product records, including SKUs, pricing, taxonomy, attributes, vendor data, lead times, and linked digital assets.
• Coordinate sample and goods QC for merchandise and other products, manage supplier documentation, and support the resolution of quality or delivery issues.
• Coordinate with Forecasting, Design, Campaigns and Activations, Quality, Logistics, Finance, Shop, and Customer Support to ensure products are ready, available, and operationally documented.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of professional experience in operational sourcing, procurement, purchasing, supply-chain execution, or a comparable role.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience managing suppliers and purchase orders from quotation or sampling through production, shipment, and delivery.
• Experience sourcing physical products, such as merchandise, packaging, accessories, promotional products, or consumer goods.
• Strong commercial understanding of pricing, MOQs, lead times, production constraints, freight costs, quality, and availability.
• Strong supplier communication and negotiation skills, with confidence to follow up, challenge deviations, and agree practical solutions.
• Experience coordinating product setup and master data, including SKUs, barcodes, vendor information, product attributes, and packaging details. Comfortable working with ERP, procurement, or product-information systems.
• Good understanding of quality checks, supplier documentation, customs, and inbound logistics.
• Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills. Fluent in English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Odoo, SKU management, or PIM tools.
• German language skills, especially for collaboration with German-speaking suppliers.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation, including company shares.
• Central office in Berlin Prenzlauerberg with flexible working hours.
• Startup culture with flat hierarchies and fast pace.
• Opportunity to shape HOLY's internationalisation.
• Equity to share in company success and upside as you scale.