Sourcing Goods and Suppliers in China

As a candidate for an open vacancy called Product Sourcing Specialist in China, you will be responsible for finding suppliers, conducting dialogues and developing long-term partnerships. Your responsibilities will also include product search, quality control and expertise. Our idealistic vision of the future employee: excellent time management skills, ambition, desire to achieve high results, high organisation, desire to work in the Retail & E-commerce Industry. Interactions, duties, reporting, as well as operational processes will be performed remotely. Duties, responsibilities and competences: • Search, assortment and selection of products based on the information provided by the manager; • Active monitoring of existing market players as well as identification of new suppliers. Periodic attendance of the conferences, the trade fairs and major exhibitions dedicated to technical and technological developments; • Holding negotiations with the suppliers and logistics companies. Rare trips to the suppliers' production facilities to build relationships for further cooperation. Proactivity in selection of new suppliers; • Regularly interact with the team to ensure that the company's goals are met. Participation in conference calls to discuss quality, size, processes and other issues directly related to production, product selection and indirectly to product logistics within China; • Verification of the supplier's products for quality, compliance with standards and performance of the supply agreement; • Use of online tools to track the progress of completed tasks. Generating reports on the work performed, analysing data, forming outputs and conclusions; • A monthly employee performance evaluation will be conducted based on the successful completion of tasks as well as the completion of a supplier search. Qualifications: • Fluent North Chinese (Mandarin) and English, both written and spoken. Literate written and spoken language. • Extensive experience working with suppliers and production facilities, with a strong focus on suppliers rather than in-house operations. Candidates with experience in the Home and Kitchen Products category will be given preference; • High level of Microsoft Office Suite ownership; • Level of the education: Completed higher education with a Bachelor degree. Wage: • For sourcing 1 product we are offering $70, these includes: product search, finding suppliers, conducting dialogues, quality control and expertise, as well as developing long-term partnerships. • In addition to the fix wage, we propose a commission from the batch of 5%, e.g., if batch is for $5000, you will receive a 5% commission ($250).