About Lovevery

　　Lovevery is a mission-driven company, passionate about helping every parent feel confident that they are giving their child the best experiences in early childhood. After just five years in market, Lovevery's run-rate revenue exceeds $200M, with 70% of that attributed to highly retentive subscription ARR (Lovevery's repeat rate beats best in class public comps by double digits). The team believes in the power of combining physical play products with digital education and support to create an ecosystem for parents that is unmatched by any other brand.

　　This unique offering has won passionate fans around the world; Lovevery's brand NPS is an outstanding score of 85–that's better than Starbucks, Apple, or Warby Parker. In addition to their robust e-commerce platform, Lovevery created a digital app that gives parents stage-based activities and content, allows them to engage with experts and a community of parents, and makes it easy for parents to know how to promote their child's development. Lovevery's stage-based information and play products are designed by child development experts, and have won awards from TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Red Dot, and Parents'​ Choice. The company is backed by TCG, Maveron, GV, Reach Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Collaborative Fund. Lovevery's headquarters are located in Boise, Idaho, USA with offices in Amsterdam and Hong Kong.

　　The Role

　　We are looking for a Toy Sourcing Manager to help establish global sourcing strategies for Lovevery's products in an eco-friendly, cost effective and timely manner. You will be responsible for developing long term partnerships with our vendors and suppliers to improve speed, optimize cost, support margin, and best utilize supply chain capabilities and efficiencies in line with company objectives. This role will report directly to the Senior Director, Sourcing, located in the Hong Kong office.

　　Job Responsibilities

　　Building and executing a sustainable global sourcing strategy that enables us to deliver products at the right cost, right place, right quality, and on-time delivery.

　　Work closely with Product Development, Engineering, Quality, Compliance, and Supply Chain teams in the US on product launches, engineering orders, shipment monitoring and sustainability.

　　Identify and fulfil the sourcing needs of the company and deliver all products developed, commercialized, and manufactured by our vendors.

　　Collaborate with the Quality team and vendors to monitor production process, identity issues and resolve them in a proactive and timely manner.

　　Establish global sourcing strategies to achieve cost targets, reduce lead time, and improve capacity

　　Review and plan vendor capacity versus forecast and actual plan.

　　Problem solver and process maker, driving collaborative partnership

　　Providing sourcing leadership to drive partnership with our vendors and deliver best-in-class performance

　　Analyzing and assessing the short- and long-term business needs

　　Assisting the leadership team to define the long-term sourcing strategy

　　Researching and assessing new vendors to support the business and capacity growth and driving continuous improvement

　　Owning vendor development and relationship building with stakeholders

　　Owning the onboarding and training of new vendors and continuously building capabilities to fulfil the business needs

　　Working closely with vendor partners to support product development and margin improvements

　　Qualifications

　　Degree in Merchandising/Business Management or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience

　　5-8 years' experience in hard toy merchandising with experience in high quality toys, paper products & packaging sourcing in a global company and understanding of universal quality compliance requirements

　　Strong interpersonal skills to work with internal and external stakeholders of diverse cultural backgrounds effectively

　　Expertise in negotiation, problem solving and multi-tasking

　　Independent, flexible, creative, high level of self-initiative and integrity

　　Fluent in verbal and written English, Mandarin and Cantonese communication skills and presentation skills

　　Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

　　Lovevery is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all forms. All employment decisions at Lovevery are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.