Job Description

Description

The Procurement Manager will focus on driving savings and managing a category performance of several indirect categories, including, but not limited to: MRO, Facility Categories such as Janitorial/Sanitation, Security, HVAC, Roofing, Yard Maintenance, Plumbing, Safety and Facility Maintenance, IT (primarily software), Professional Services, Document Storage. Key activities include: managing vendors, utilizing a Procure-to-Pay (P2P) system, conducting QBR’s, negotiating contracts and implementing strategic sourcing activities. Key skills/experience: project management, strong analytics, conduct RFP’s and category management.

Qualifications

• 3-5 Years of full-time experience in vendor negotiations, Company expense analysis and strategic sourcing activities for an organization (public or private)
• Experience with procurement and vendor management systems, including Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Source-to-Pay (S2P), and Spend Analytics
• Minimum 15% Travel requirement.
• Typical office environment.
• This is a hybrid role based out of our Burnaby, BC office. Must be able to work 3 days in office.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing categories globally to drive savings, process improvement and meet key performance indicators for category, including compliance and monitoring of contracts in alignment with company policies
• Develop RFI’s & RFP’s, conduct in-depth analytics across multiple systems and from various divisions/countries
• Provide category recommendations, counter-proposals, and negotiate to identify and deliver savings to the organization; maintains product quality standards and focuses on reducing costs
• Develop compliance monitoring programs to ensure implementation strategies are measurable and successful
• Review and provide recommendations to the Senior Procurement Manager and Vice President of Procurement, in coordination with business stakeholders, developing best-in-class category strategies
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organizations including local, regional and corporate leadership; understand their unique needs and ensure category strategy addresses/meets their needs
• Support and maintain Procurement policies and processes, including improving vendor payment terms, contract management, driving sustainability initiatives and managing vendors
• Draft and review contracts with vendors including SOW’s, MSA’s and addendums
• Cross functionally operate with legal, finance and operations to ensure company policies and best practices are followed
• Identify and drive continuous improvement processes and reporting
• Establishes strong relationships with vendors, facilitates communication, and works to ensure products or services provided meet company requirements
• Leads the evaluation of suppliers and works to reduce vendor risk by developing scorecards and analyzing vendor performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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