Product Development, Sourcing Specialist
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Product sourcing specialist turning ideas into launch-ready home and outdoor products for AUGO, a family-owned US e-commerce brand. Finding factories, negotiating costs, managing samples, and preparing Amazon listings.
Responsibilities:
- Own the process from product idea through launch-ready product
- Develop detailed product specifications covering materials, colours, comfort, construction, differentiating features, target costs, pricing and shipping dimensions
- Produce complete, manufacturer-ready spec packs within 1–2 days of approval
- Search Alibaba, 1688 and other channels for factories
- Verify supplier capability and capacity and create a shortlist of 5–8 verified suppliers per approved product within 3–5 business days
- Request and negotiate quotes, calculate landed cost per unit, and confirm MOQ, lead time, payment terms and packaging
- Follow up with suppliers daily until questions and quotes are resolved
- Order, track and evaluate samples against specifications
- Manage revision rounds through written sample approval or rejection
- Create and manage UPC, SKU, FNSKU and QR codes
- Own packaging, inserts, warnings, labelling and FBA dimensions
- Brief creative teams on product images, A+ content and video
- Maintain supplier comparisons, risk documentation, open questions and recommendations
- Provide end-of-day reports, weekly scorecards, KPIs and daily updates to the Head of R&D
- Direct the existing sourcing agent and work directly with factories
- Help achieve the target of ten new products live every quarter
Requirements:
- Hands-on product sourcing experience across Alibaba, 1688 or other channels
- Experience finding factories, engaging suppliers directly, requesting and comparing meaningful quotes, and negotiating MOQ and unit price
- Experience taking a physical product from idea through to production
- Experience managing a supplier relationship through at least one full production run
- E-commerce experience; Amazon private label strongly preferred
- Amazon Seller Central experience preferred, not required
- Ability to source efficiently and identify reliable suppliers
- Amazon listing literacy, including extracting dimensions, materials, construction and packaging details from competitor listings
- Numeracy with margins, landed cost per unit, freight allocated per unit, CBM, percentages, FBA size tiers and dimensional weight
- Ability to write clear, appropriately phased product specifications
- Strong written English for daily reporting and written factory negotiations
- Reliable computer and internet connection
- Daily overlap with the Head of R&D
- Resourcefulness, strong follow-through, attention to cost-impacting details, pipeline ownership and direct communication
Benefits:
- Paid onboarding
- Performance-based raises reviewed after 90 days, then annually
- Fully remote work from wherever you’re most productive
- Direct daily access to the Head of R&D and decision-makers
- Room to grow with the product line and team
- Visible impact through live product listings
- Training on brand standards, product point of view, customer preferences, target price architecture, Amazon fee schedules and calculators, spec templates, existing suppliers, sourcing agent, internal tools and reporting rhythm
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