Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist

About Us:Welcome to Lactalis Canada!

We’reproud to be Canada’s #1 branded dairy company and to be consistently recognized as one of the country’s top employers by Forbes. Our purpose is to enrich and nurture the lives of Canadians by offering the best of dairy from Canada’s favourite dairy brands like Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond, Balderson, Astro and Lactantia. In fact, our products can be found in over 90% of Canadian refrigerators in any given time.

As part of Lactalis Group, the world’s leading dairy company, weremainfocused on innovation and quality and are seeking like-minded individuals to join us as we continue our growth journey.

The role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies for packaging categories, managing supplier relationships, negotiating commercial agreements, identifying cost reduction opportunities, and ensuring supply continuity across Lactalis North America. The role includes strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, market intelligence, risk mitigation, contract management, budget support, and continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Senior Buyer will collaborate with Plant Operations, Packaging Development, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain and Global Procurement Team to align duties with the company's goals and values.

• Achieve budget objectives by identifying, developing, and supporting North American sourcing strategy initiatives for the assigned portfolio or the North American Sourcing
• Support/lead the development of local /regional sourcing strategies for the Category managed, using detailed analysis of historical & current spend data, combined with sourcing and research of new suppliers.
• Achieve budget objectives by identifying, developing and supporting North American sourcing strategy initiatives for the assigned portfolio or the North American Sourcing.
• Leads in the implementation, and management of the strategy for the Category, making sure the needs and specifications of each Business Unit are considered.
• Provides general support for Purchasing team (Canada & US) in SRM, support of quality documentation collection, pricing, design, timeline creation, business cases, etc.
• Identifies and develops productivity projects for Lactalis Canada and other Lactalis affiliates in North America.
• Support the bid process by consulting with users to determine the expectations; preparing bid documents; performing bid analysis, teaming up and/or leading the negotiation and preparing the recommendations regarding vendor contracts and presenting the recommendations.
• Support global negotiation initiatives led by corporate office global procurement by providing information such as pricing specifications and vendor listings and negotiating at local level.
• Identify and execute negotiation cost savings initiatives.
• Identify and execute value analysis and vendor transfer savings opportunities as a cross-functional effort to deliver cost reduction targets and optimize other performance measures such as on-time delivery & lead time on purchased goods and services, without jeopardizing quality, flexibility and supply continuity.
• Participate as an active cross-functional team member, along with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Quality, Technical Packaging, Sales and Marketing and other key functional areas of the business for effective project execution such as new launches, line extensions, and process optimization. The scope includes sourcing, pricing, as well as sharing process improvements ideas provided by the vendors.
• Develop supplier relationships to optimize supplier quality and performance, including continuous improvement, innovation, and reduction in total…