About Us
Mind Games is North America's premier destination for board games, puzzles, toys, collectibles, and everything pop culture. With retail locations across Canada and the United States and a growing e-commerce presence. We are passionate about delivering fun, imagination, and innovation to our customers. As we continue to expand, we are seeking a detail-oriented and commercially minded Offshore Sourcing Specialist to join our Markham office and lead supplier sourcing, development, and purchasing activities with overseas partners, primarily in China.
Key Responsibilities
- Source, evaluate, and onboard qualified overseas manufacturers and suppliers for toys, games, collectibles, and specialty merchandise, with a primary focus on China.
- Manage the end-to-end offshore sourcing process, from supplier identification, requests for quotation, sampling, and cost analysis through purchase order placement and production follow-up.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with factories, trading companies, agents, testing laboratories, freight forwarders, and other international partners.
- Negotiate product costs, tooling, minimum order quantities, payment terms, international commercial terms, production lead times, and delivery schedules to achieve margin and inventory objectives.
- Prepare landed-cost analyses that consider product cost, duty, freight, testing, packaging, brokerage, currency, and other import-related expenses
- Coordinate product specifications, samples, packaging, labelling, and approvals with internal merchandising, quality, compliance, and marketing teams
- .Monitor production schedules, conduct regular supplier follow-ups, and resolve quality, capacity, cost, or delivery risks before they affect launch dates or inventory availability.
- Ensure products and suppliers meet applicable safety, testing, ethical sourcing, social compliance, and import requirements for Canada and the United States.
- Partner with logistics providers and internal teams to coordinate bookings, shipping documents, customs clearance, delivery, receiving, invoicing, and claims.\
- Maintain accurate supplier records, quotations, purchase orders, product specifications, compliance documents, and sourcing calendars in NetSuite and related systems.
- Track supplier performance using cost, quality, lead-time, delivery, responsiveness, and compliance metrics, and lead corrective-action follow-up when required.
- Research product, material, manufacturing, and market trends to identify new sourcing opportunities and reduce supply-chain risk.
Qualifications
- 4+ years Experience in retail, consumer products, toys, games, collectibles, or pop culture categories is an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and qualify factories, analyze quotations, negotiate commercial terms, and manage samples and production timelines.
- Working knowledge of landed costing, International commercial terms, international freight, customs documentation, import duties, and cross-border supply-chain processes
- .Familiarity with product testing, quality assurance, supplier audits, ethical sourcing, and consumer-product compliance for Canada and the United States.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with costing models, supplier data, and purchasing reports.
- Strong negotiation, supplier relationship management, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
- Clear cross-cultural communication skills and the ability to manage priorities across time zones in a fast-paced environment.
- Mandarin language skills is a strong asset.
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally as business needs require.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a fun, passionate team.
- Employee discounts on the latest and greatest games, toys, and collectibles.
- Creative and collaborative work environment where your ideas matter.
- Casual dress code
Ready to use your international sourcing expertise to bring exciting products to market? Apply now and help Mind Games build reliable, responsible, and commercially successful partnerships with leading overseas suppliers.
Perks & Benefits
- Salary: $60,000 per year
- Employee discount on games, puzzles, and toys
This is a new position.
Location: Head Office, 380 Bentley St, Unit 1, Markham ON L3R 3L2
Mind Games is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination based on any characteristic protected under applicable human rights legislation.
Mind Games is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment and selection process, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.
