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Working collaboratively across departments, the Procurement Manager establishes procurement best practices, strengthens governance, enables informed purchasing decisions, and delivers measurable financial and operational benefits through strategic supplier partnerships.\nWhat you will do\nProcurement Management:Manage the intake, assessment, and prioritization of procurement requests, partnering with business stakeholders to define requirements, determine appropriate sourcing approaches, and coordinate procurement activities through contract execution.\n\nStrategic Sourcing:Partner with business stakeholders to coordinate RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs, as appropriate, including requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, selection, and contracting.\n\nContract Lifecycle Management:Manage contract renewals, including planning, business reviews, commercial negotiations, amendments, extensions, and terminations, ensuring alignment with business needs and organizational objectives.\n\nContract Review and Legal Support:Support in-house Legal Counsel by conducting initial reviews of commercial agreements and other contracts, including Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), and amendments. Identify commercial considerations, potential risks, and matters requiring legal review or escalation.\n\nCommercial Negotiations:Lead or support supplier negotiations in collaboration with key stakeholders to achieve competitive pricing, favorable contractual terms, appropriate service levels, and overall value for the organization.\n\nSupplier Relationship Management:Develop and maintain effective supplier relationships, monitor vendor performance, and coordinate business reviews to support service quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.\n\nSpend Analysis and Optimization:Analyze organizational spend and supplier activity to identify opportunities for cost savings, vendor consolidation, process efficiencies, and improved commercial outcomes.\n\nProcurement Governance and Risk Management:Develop, maintain, and support adherence to procurement policies, procedures, standards, and governance frameworks. Coordinate with Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and other stakeholders to support compliance and mitigate procurement and supplier-related risks.\n\nProcurement Advisory:Provide procurement guidance and recommendations to business stakeholders on sourcing approaches, supplier selection, contract management, and procurement best practices to support informed decision-making.\n\nProcurement Operations and Reporting:Maintain procurement systems, workflows, contract repositories, templates, and documentation. Prepare procurement metrics, spend analyses, and management reporting to support visibility, informed decision-making, and organizational accountability.\n\nContinuous Improvement:Identify and implement improvements to procurement processes, workflows, and practices to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen governance, and improve the overall effectiveness of the procurement function.\n\nSpecial Projects:leads the assessment, selection, and implementation of a procurement management system, partnering with key stakeholders to establish requirements, optimize workflows, and enhance procurement efficiency, visibility, and reporting capabilities.\n\nWhat you have\nEducation: Undergraduate Degree in a similar field\nCertification: Professional procurement certification (SCMP, CPSM, CIPS, or equivalent) is considered a strong asset.\n5-7 years of relevant experience in contract negotiations and working with cross-functional teams\n\nStrong knowledge of strategic sourcing, procurement operations, and contract management principles.\n\nKnowledge of supplier relationship management and vendor performance management practices.\n\nUnderstandingcommercial contracting, including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, licensing agreements, and service agreements.\n\nKnowledge of procurement governance, policies, controls, and approval frameworks.\n\nUnderstandingrisk management principles, including vendor risk, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, and regulatory considerations.\n\nKnowledge of competitive sourcing methodologies, including RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.\n\nUnderstanding of spend analysis, budgeting, cost management, and savings measurement.\n\nFamiliarity with procurement technologies, contract management systems, ERP platforms, and Microsoft 365 applications.\n\nKnowledge of applicable procurement legislation, ethical procurement practices, and regulatory requirements.\n\nSkills\nAdvanced negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to achieve favorable commercial and contractual outcomes.\n\nStrong vendor and stakeholder relationship management skills.\n\nStrong financial acumen, including experience with pricing analysis, total cost of ownership assessments, and business case development.\n\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills, including executive-level presentation and reporting capabilities.\n\nStrong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.\n\nAbility to facilitate cross-functional collaboration among Finance, Legal, Privacy, Security, Technology, and business stakeholders.\n\nStrong contract review and commercial assessment capabilities.\n\nLegal experience an asset; 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