Dropship Supplier Acquisition Manager

About CommentSold

CommentSold is the North American leader in live selling technology (ranked by G2), having enabled over 7,000 small to mid-sized retailers with live-selling tools, generating over 166 million items sold with $3.8B+ in lifetime GMV. CommentSold’s technology continues to provide businesses and creators of all sizes with best-in-class solutions for delivering engaging live video commerce experiences across all of their sales channels simultaneously. CommentSold moved into direct-to-consumer commerce via the acquisition of assets of Popshoplive, a community-driven livestream shopping marketplace app at the intersection of social, e-commerce and entertainment. In 2022, CommentSold debuted its lightweight video commerce plugin technology, Videeo, which gives any retailer or brand the ability to embed and go live with engaging, branded live video commerce experiences within days by easily integrating into an existing e-commerce stack.

Dropship Supplier Acquisition Manager

Join America’s largest live selling and video commerce platform, and help drive the next level of growth as our Dropship Supplier Acquisition Manager.

Live Selling Starts at CS

CommentSold offers retailers a complete live sales solution. From onboarding and strategy, superior go-live technology, and live selling best practices to backend solutions for inventory, invoicing, and fulfillment–our team is there to guide a top-notch customer experience every step of the way. And we’re just getting started. 

As our Dropship Supplier Acquisition Manager, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining new and existing wholesale business and vendor relationships to expand the CS dropship ecosystem. You will identify potential wholesale and dropship suppliers, create proposals to pitch these relationships to decision-makers and oversee negotiations once a partnership is secured. You will report to the Senior Director of Partnerships. Our team is dynamic, accountable, and can quickly adapt to change in today’s business environment. 

We’re goal-oriented, entrepreneurial, and we work hard to help each other succeed. This candidate must have strong organizational skills, a deep understanding of our business and ecosystem, and be an out-of-the-box thinker. We value experience, critical thinking, and creativity in addition to all the traits vital to represent CS.

In this role, you will

• Contact suppliers to pitch the opportunity of partnering with CS

• Cultivate business relationships, and create solutions as you build your lead pipeline of wholesale supply vendors in the women’s fashion and beauty industry

• Negotiate optimal supplier agreements to drive mutually beneficial partnerships with new suppliers

• Attend trade shows, wholesale markets, and supplier meetings

• Use data to analyze and interpret your categorids’ and suppliers’ landscape

• Competitive analysis and market trend 

If you’re right for this role, you

• Have at least 3+ years’ of professional experience in sales or eCommerce and a proven track record of reaching or exceeding your targets

• Have demonstrated success in building business relationships with internal and external stakeholders 

• You have previously demonstrated the ability to lead successful commercial and contractual negotiations

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset with hands-on vendor/commercial experience

• You are comfortable in a technology-driven, numbers-oriented business environment

• You have demonstrated ability to work within a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment

• You have a strong process orientation and have an efficient and self-organized way of working

Base Comp Range: $85,000 - $100,000 (Depending on experience and level) / Bonus Potential

We love our values

We’re building a community, our chosen circle, around a set of values that guide how we work and interact with the world around us. Our cultural norms at work can’t be turned off when the computer’s away -- we live these in every part of our lives. Our team isn’t for everyone, so if you’re right for it, the following values should resonate strongly with how you live your life.

Deliver for our customer COMMUNITY: We are committed to making our customers successful.

Do it as a TEAM: We actively listen to diverse perspectives and respond empathetically.

Help each other GROW: We are willing to get uncomfortable for the sake of our growth.

OWN it: We do our part to reach the team's shared goals and hold ourselves and others accountable.

DRIVE forward: We are determined to innovate for impact.