Senior Manager, Procurement Sourcing

Toronto - 20 Queen Office
Toronto, ON , CAN

The Senior Manager, Procurement Sourcing brings highly experienced procurement and industry expertise to lead national procurement and supplier management activities, through a variety of leading practices. By providing best-in-class strategic sourcing services to organizational stakeholders, this role actively contributes and manages a team of employees to uphold the departmental and overall corporate objectives that support Procurement and Supplier Management’s strategic vision and direction.

The Senior Manager, Procurement & Sourcing will focus on the national scope of activities related to the following functional areas:

• Key Category strategy
• Strategic sourcing
• Contract development and management
• Supplier/vendor management and performance
• Talent and people management

• Leads sourcing and procurement activities for strategic categories (e.g. key category strategy, strategic sourcing, contract development and management) nationally and related functional areas.
• Manages the strategic sourcing process (e.g. issuance, evaluation, negotiation, vendor selection) for the category, with the support of the Procurement Analyst and Senior Procurement Specialist, as required, by:
• Leading development of key category sourcing strategies, based on market trends and research;
• Recommending category strategies based on project priorities;
• Managing the evaluation of external and divisional bid responses against pre-defined criteria;
• Monitoring the contract package, for completion of the approval and ratification process
• Leads the development of the assigned category’s strategic procurement plan, by translating it into a set of implementable and measurable strategies and targets
• Oversees spend analysis conducted by Procurement Analyst to make informed category decisions through the data available in the procurement system
• Responsible for the spend taxonomy and data for analysis in the procurement system
• Manages highly complex spend categories, provides decisions on high risk/spend contracts, monitors progress for specific categories to ensure that program objectives are delivered on time and within budget, and that anticipated business results are achieved
• Responsible for leadership, and interactions with internal and external stakeholders to identify and achieve the value for money targeted savings objectives
• Coordinates workforce planning to maximize productivity while meeting project demands; promotes team collaboration to assist other team members to achieve business objectives
• Coaches contract owners to drive contract performance and compliance; oversees and directs contract development and management activities for assigned category(ies)
• Manages, cross-trains, coaches, and mentors staff, and monitors work assignments to ensure adherence to timelines; defines team member goals and results and monitors activities
• Defines and articulates clear performance objectives; monitors performance and develops and implements action plans to address performance gaps
• Manages the vendor performance and relationships across Tier 1 service providers

• Highly experienced technical/professional expertise with specialized knowledge of procurement processes
• Knowledge of office and retail space and related infrastructure
• Analytical, problem solving and evaluation skills
• Interpersonal and team collaboration skills
• Political acuity, tact and diplomacy
• Verbal/written presentation and communication skills
• Service-focused leadership
• Values-driven
• Transformational leadership and energy to drive team engagement and development
• Delivering superior results and building a high-performance culture

• Bachelor’s degree in Business…