Program Purchasing Manager – LGI North America

Program Purchasing Manager – LGI North America

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Purchasing - Management of purchasing domains

Program Purchasing Manager – LGI North America

Permanent

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Full-time

The Program Purchasing Manager leads the Program Purchasing function for the Toronto site across development and/or sustaining programs. The role has hierarchical responsibility for a team of Program Purchasing Leads who act as the Purchasing focal points within Integrated Program Teams. The manager ensures that the team consistently executes the Purchasing process, supports program milestones, manages supplier development activities (for BTS), supports the management of Purchasing risks and cost performance effectively represents Purchasing with Programs, Operations and Senior leadership.

• Hierarchically manage the Program Purchasing team responsible for the purchased scope of LGI Toronto development and/or sustaining programs.
• Organize and allocate team resources according to program priorities, workload and individual competencies.
• Ensure the onboarding, training, development and performance management of team members to support evolving program challenges and business needs.
• Maintain the team at the required quantitative and qualitative level and contribute to five-year resource planning.
• Represent the Program Purchasing function at the Toronto site and maintain effective working relationships with Programs, Production, Commodity Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Finance.
• Ensure Division, Program, Production, purchasing objectives are properly flowed down to the Commodity Purchasing or IPT team.
• Ensure Build to Specification development and industrialization activities are led by the assigned Program Purchasing Leads.
• Ensure appropriate weekly reporting and governance routines are established at the relevant levels.
• Lead team governance and promote the cross sharing of ideas, lessons learned and best practices across programs and divisions.

• Ensure Program Purchasing representation within identified IPTs, supporting PROMPT milestones and coordinating priorities and actions with Commodity Purchasing.
• Ensure all Purchasing actions are completed in a timely manner in support of selected Program schedules.
• Participate in PMR/PPRM reviews, represent Purchasing, and ensure requirements and actions are properly flowed down, monitored and escalated.
• Ensure RC, NRC, schedule, contractualization, industrialization, risks and any additional specific Program required are effectively reported.
• Ensure RC/NRC performance is monitored and coordinate BUY scope cost reduction activities through Commodity Purchasing and IPTs.
• Ensure the team has…