Minted

Senior Manager, Overseas Sourcing

Minted

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇳 China

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Expand Minted’s portfolio of suppliers with expectations for controlling and reducing spend across the organization, including driving cost-modeling insights to guide sourcing and margin decisions
  • Build and manage effective strategic relationships with overseas suppliers to support the company’s sourcing and manufacturing placement, quality, and cost goals, with a focus on long-term partnership development in Asia
  • Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Business Development teams to develop, source, and manufacture products to drive sales growth
  • Manage production and sourcing, including materials knowledge, trade regulations, testing protocol, product integrity, production cycle timeline, costing, SOP, and shipping documentation, ensuring compliance with international and domestic regulatory requirements
  • Negotiate with offshore partners to obtain competitive pricing and improve margin structures, while also ensuring quality standards remain aligned to the Minted brand
  • Regularly communicate with overseas suppliers to audit quality, verify capabilities, build expertise and relationships, proactively identifying risks and proposing solutions
  • Provide clear, accurate, and timely communication to manufacturers and cross-functional partners regarding production and shipping timelines to mitigate any delays
  • Occasionally move equipment weighing up to 30 pounds. This role entails physically moving displays, boxes, and other visual materials

Requirements

  • 8-10+ years of sourcing and product development of consumer goods for retail, with particular experience required in home decor, gifts, fabric, and stationery goods, preferably with deep in-region experience in Asia
  • 6+ years of experience working with supply chain, accounting (AP/AR), and customer service, with an affinity towards e-commerce and/or retail
  • Vendor relationships: you bring to Minted an immediate network of trusted overseas manufacturers and a long track record of working in-region with overseas partners to deliver results, managing provider performance and cost, including the use of cost-modeling tools to evaluate vendor proposals
  • Materials knowledge: a passion for design and the categories that Minted participates in to source the highest quality products to meet customer expectations of Minted’s brand
  • Exceptional and obsessive detail orientation to ensure brand integrity, flawless product quality, and operational excellence
  • Project management skills: ability to work cross-functionally and outside the organization, and have a track record of achieving the results expected. You are extremely detailed and process-oriented, balancing short-term and long-term needs
  • Exceptional presentation and communication skills with a strong ability to influence others across the organization, vendors, and suppliers
  • Analytical skills: You can make decisions quickly with imperfect data. You know how to measure and monitor results to move key metrics in the right direction. You are adept at Excel and Google Suite and are willing to learn new systems, processes, and procedures
  • Strong English and Mandarin language skills, both written and verbal, to ensure seamless communication with internal teams and overseas partners
  • Work ethic: You do what it takes to ensure every customer has a great experience with Minted, which involves working with cross-functional teams and sometimes making fast decisions and executing tasks quickly
  • 4-year degree in a relevant field, highly preferred.
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity
  • Recruitment processes involve AI technology for assessment during hiring
  • Encourage of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
sourcingproduct developmentcost-modelingvendor managementmaterials knowledgeproject managementanalytical skillsdetail orientationquality assuranceregulatory compliance
Soft skills
communicationpresentationinfluencerelationship managementwork ethiccross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityattention to detaildecision-making