A growing Canadian e-commerce company needed a procurement specialist. Hire Mountain matched them with the right person immediately.
A Canadian online retailer specializing in educational toys was growing fast. They carried products from major toy brands and were processing increasingly large purchase orders. The founder was handling procurement herself alongside everything else, which meant either orders were getting delayed or other parts of the business were getting neglected.
She needed a procurement assistant who could manage POs, coordinate with suppliers, track shipments, and forecast demand. The challenge was budget. A local hire at the level of experience she needed would cost $55,000-$65,000 CAD per year, and the business wasn't at a point where that made financial sense.
Procurement isn't an easy role to fill offshore. It requires strong communication with North American suppliers, attention to detail on pricing and quantities, and an understanding of retail purchasing cycles. The founder had tried a freelancer from a marketplace before and it hadn't gone well. The freelancer missed PO deadlines and didn't understand the vendor relationship dynamics.
She was skeptical that a managed staffing company would do any better, but the cost difference was too significant to ignore.
Hire Mountain pulled candidates from the pre-vetted talent pool with procurement and supply chain experience. The founder wanted someone in India because the overlap with EST mornings worked for her schedule, and the depth of the Indian talent pool for this type of analytical, detail-oriented work was the strongest match.
We presented three candidates. She interviewed two and hired the first one she spoke with. The candidate had 4 years of procurement experience with an Indian e-commerce company, strong spreadsheet skills, and a WorkStyle Compass profile that showed high Precision (detail orientation) and moderate South (steady, reliable work patterns). Exactly the profile that matched the founder's existing team dynamics.
The hire was onboarded in 5 days and started managing POs in her first week.
The offshore hire costs roughly $18,000 CAD per year with managed services. The local equivalent would have been $55,000+. That's a $34,000 saving in the first year alone.
No second round. No replacements. The first candidate presented was the right fit. This is what pre-vetting and Personality Style Matching does. It filters out the mismatches before you ever see a profile.
The founder estimates she got back 15-20 hours per week that she was spending on procurement. That time went directly into marketing and product selection, which drove revenue growth.
The hire works India hours, which overlap with EST mornings. Supplier emails sent in the afternoon get responses by the next morning. The founder describes it as having a "head start on every day."
"I was ready for it to take three or four tries to find the right person. It took one. She's been with us for months now and I honestly can't imagine going back to doing procurement myself."
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