Strategic Sourcing Manager

Sina Lite is a leading wholesale trade printer and custom packaging provider, serving 20,000+ print businesses, resellers, and entrepreneurs across Canada and the US. With 26 years of printing experience and over $45 million invested in cutting-edge print technology, we help our clients maximize their print profits, and we’re just as invested in helping our own team grow. We were named a 2025 Regional Finalist in Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program, and we’re looking for our next Strategic Sourcing Manager to help us keep raising the bar.

Compensation: $100,000 - $130,000 CDN

Location:

335 Steelcase Rd East, Markham, ON (Hybrid, 3 days in office)

• Health & Wellness:
  Comprehensive health insurance and paramedical coverage for you and your loved ones, because your wellbeing comes first.
• Comfort + Convenience:
  Casual dress code and on-site parking, so you can focus on doing great work.
• The Sky’s the Limit:
  Clear pathways for growth and advancement. We celebrate ambition and back it with real opportunities to move up.
• Supercharge Your Development:
  Access to company-sponsored learning opportunities to expand your skills and broaden your professional horizons.

• Own supplier relationships end to end, including price, payment terms, material quality, and inventory exposure, turning purchasing into a source of cash and margin.
• Execute negotiation strategy across our five product categories (Flexible Packaging, Folding Carton, Roll Labels, Large Format, and Commercial Print), including films, laminates, specialty substrates, paper and board, inks, and consumables.
• Use market conditions, volume consolidation, and competitive tension across suppliers to win better pricing.
• Deliver annual cost-reduction targets by category and report realized savings to leadership and Finance. Savings are measured on total landed cost, never at the expense of press yield, quality, or lead time, and only price reductions reconciled by Finance count.
• Apply category strategies: build the supply base and manage commodity price exposure for Flexible Packaging and Folding Carton (keeping it food-safe); protect quality and availability while consolidating volume for Roll Labels and Large Format; and simplify Commercial Print with fewer SKUs, fewer suppliers, and lower inventory.
• Renegotiate supplier payment terms toward a year-one target of 45–60 days and a long-term target of 75 days or more, starting with the highest-spend and most concentrated suppliers.
• Balance price, early-payment discounts, and extended terms with an explicit cost-of-capital view.
• Tie purchasing to usage, production schedules, and demand forecasts; set reorder points, minimum-order strategies, and stock policies by material type.
• Monitor raw material exposure, and flag and correct over-buying driven by minimum order quantities, speculative buys, or yield issues.
• Use consignment, vendor-managed inventory (VMI), and blanket purchase orders so the low minimum order quantities we offer customers do not force us to hold excess stock.
• Work with Operations on work-in-process and finished-goods reduction where sourcing decisions drive it.
• Run a structured qualification process for new suppliers and materials: trials, yield testing, sign-off criteria, and scale-up gates.
• Track yield, defect rates, and on-time delivery by supplier, hold suppliers accountable for quality failures through claims, credits, and corrective action, and consolidate volume toward the best performers.
• Own the SQF approved-supplier program and incoming-material lot traceability, in partnership with Quality.
• Identify, qualify, and onboard overseas suppliers for core product lines to strengthen supply, lower cost, and reduce dependence on a small…