{"id":1123827,"url":"https://alion.io/job/moo-category-manager-sourced-promotional-products","title":"Category Manager, Sourced & Promotional Products","company":{"id":449934,"name":"Moo","domain":"moo.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/moo-4","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":23,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Providence, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T17:34:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T16:54:30Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"The Role\nWe’re looking for a commercially minded Category Manager to own and grow MOO’s branded merchandise assortment across premium brands, promotional products and third-party suppliers.\nYou’ll define what products and brands MOO should offer, build a compelling and differentiated assortment, identify emerging trends and category opportunities, and develop strong supplier and brand relationships.\nAlongside our online assortment, you’ll partner closely with Sales to develop a broader promotional product offering for business customers across gifting, events and branded merchandise programs.\nThe person we want\nYou are a commercially minded category manager who loves products and has a strong instinct for what B2B customers will want next. \nYou can turn a huge universe of products, brands and suppliers into a considered assortment that feels distinctly MOO. \nYou are equally comfortable reviewing category performance, spotting a trend at a trade show, building supplier relationships, evaluating a new decoration technique, and turning those insights into clear commercial recommendations.\nYou don’t need to come from one specific industry. Experience in promotional products or branded merchandise would be valuable, but we’re equally interested in strong merchandising, buying or category management backgrounds where you’ve owned assortments, worked closely with suppliers and helped grow a category.\nResponsibilities\nCategory & Assortment Management\nOwn the strategy, performance and ongoing development of MOO’s third-party branded merchandise assortment.\nDefine category architecture and identify opportunities across areas such as drinkware, notebooks, pens, bags, apparel and gifting.\nUse customer insight, sales performance, market trends and competitive activity to identify assortment gaps, additions and exits.\nBuild and maintain a category roadmap covering existing assortment optimization and future growth opportunities.\nStay close to emerging brands, products, materials and decoration techniques, translating trends into commercially relevant opportunities.\nIdentify opportunities where customer demand, category performance or market trends could inform when MOO should develop its own proprietary products.\nSales & Promotional Products\nPartner with Sales to build and evolve a compelling promotional product assortment for business customers.\nProvide product and category expertise across gifting, events, employee programs and other customer needs.\nPartner with our promotional products lead and suppliers to continually improve the breadth, quality and competitiveness of the assortment.\nHelp develop scalable ways of working across product selection, sourcing, decoration, ordering and fulfillment.\nSupplier & Brand Management\nBuild strong relationships with third-party suppliers and premium brand partners.\nIdentify and evaluate new suppliers, brands and product opportunities.\nPartner with Supply Chain and Commercial teams on pricing, MOQs, lead times, availability and commercial terms.\nUnderstand supplier and MOO decoration capabilities and help determine the right model for each product.\nMonitor supplier and product performance and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.\nCross-Functional Leadership\nAct as the category expert for branded merchandise across MOO.\nPartner closely with Sales, Ecommerce, Product Marketing, Brand, Creative, Operations, Supply Chain and Planning.\nUse category performance and commercial insight to make clear recommendations and influence future investment.\nPartner with the wider Category team to ensure MOO’s overall product portfolio is cohesive and customer-led.\nAbout you\nExperience in category management, merchandising, buying, branded merchandise, promotional products or a related commercial product role.\nExperience owning and developing product assortments, including identifying new products and category growth opportunities.\nStrong experience working with external suppliers and/or brand partners, including evaluating products, capabilities and commercial considerations.\nStrong commercial and analytical skills, with experience using sales, margin and customer insights to inform category decisions.\nExperience working cross-functionally to bring new products or assortments to market.\nStrong understanding of product trends and the ability to translate them into relevant commercial opportunities.\nStrong communication and stakeholder-management skills.\nNice To Haves\nExperience in branded merchandise or promotional products.\nExperience working with premium consumer brands.\nKnowledge of decoration methods and promotional product supply chains.\nFamiliarity with the promotional-products supplier/distributor ecosystem.\nExperience across both ecommerce and sales-led assortments.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4783,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Gifts & Souvenirs","Consumer Goods","Design & Creative"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T20:14:33Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/moo-category-manager-sourced-promotional-products","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/moo-category-manager-sourced-promotional-products.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T19:21:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}