Manager, strategic sourcing, retail scheduled services

2 months ago


Kingston, Canada Loblaw Companies Ltd - Head Office Full time

Les candidats référés ne doivent pas postuler directement pour ce poste.

Toutes les références de candidats doivent d’abord être soumises dans Workday par un collègue de Loblaw actuel.

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Venez faire votre différence dans les communautés à travers le Canada, où l'authenticité, la confiance et l'établissement de liens sont valorisés - alors que nous façonnons l'avenir du commerce de détail au Canada, ensemble. Notre position unique en tant que l'un des plus grands employeurs du pays, celle associée à notre engagement à avoir un impact positif sur la vie de tous les Canadiens, vient offrir à nos collègues une gamme d'opportunités et d'expériences pour aider les Canadiens à Vivre Bien, Vivre Pleinement.

Chez Les Compagnies Loblaw Limitée, nous réussissons grâce à la collaboration, à l'engagement et nous plaçons la barre haute pour nous-mêmes et ceux qui nous entourent. Que vous débutiez votre carrière, que vous réintégriez le marché du travail ou que vous recherchiez un nouvel emploi, votre place est avec nous.

Role Mandate:

The Manager, Strategic Sourcing will join a team of others reporting to the Director Strategic Sourcing & Projects, Enterprise Procurement Group. The Manager, Strategic Sourcing will be responsible for completion of the entire strategic sourcing process (sourcing, negotiations, contracting, etc.) and for supplier relationship management for all of Loblaw divisions and affiliates. Contributes to the new supplier selection processes, developing, and maintaining supplier relationships. Supports internal collaboration, knowledge sharing, compliance with best practices and established category management process. Additionally, responds to business partners’ requirements and needs. The individual should be very comfortable with operating in ambiguous environments, familiar with the RFX process, gathering insights from raw data, and building influential PowerPoint presentations.

Accountabilities include but are not limited to the below:

Strategic Sourcing

  • Lead the development and execution of category management strategies, processes and events for assigned categories/sub-categories in alignment to corporate objectives.
  • Demonstrate a qualitative and quantitative experience and capability to manage the category and the strategic sourcing process (e.g. RFI, RFP, etc.).
  • Expert in defining and executing negotiation tactics and skillfully manage difficult and complex strategic negotiations.
  • Collaborate with Business stakeholders to drive best market value initiatives with vendors through various levers including value-based sourcing, leverage market imbalances, demand management, TCO, etc.
  • Take category ownership and manage specifications, spend, vendor base and contracts for assigned categories and build the appropriate mid and long-term strategy by either using value chain reconfiguration, collaborative capacity management, standardization, total lifecycle concept or core cost analysis.
  • Conducting complex sourcing baseline analysis and assessing category benefits (e.g. savings, risk reduction, etc.) and key performance metrics.
  • Analyzing supplier bids and proposals conducting advanced, multivariable cost regression analyses to prepare and assess potential sourcing scenarios.
  • Perform key analysis and develop a strategic negotiation plan, get outside opinion, and be proactive during all negotiations.
  • Use detailed market analysis to create scenarios regarding potential market development. Use insights from market analysis to support stakeholder innovation, to mitigate risks for Loblaw, and to amend category strategies or to deliver additional savings.
  • Regularly use e-Sourcing technology (Ariba / Fieldglass) and support its use.
  • Track savings and other KPIs of completed initiatives.
  • Assist the Contracts team with execution of various contracts across different categories.

Skills and Capabilities:

  • Strong project and change management skills.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills.
  • Strong experience managing relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
  • Excellent analytical skills.
  • Ability to summarize data into key insights and define opportunities.
  • Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
  • Strong ability to present ideas in business-friendly language.
  • Organizational skills and ability to multi-task.
  • Bi-lingual preferred.

Technical Skills:

  • Expert in the use of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.).
  • eSourcing tools (Ariba, Fieldglass).

Communication Skills:

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and presentations skills.
  • Ability to summarize complex data into key insights.

Role Requirements:

  • A minimum of Bachelor Degree in business, operations, engineering or equivalent discipline.
  • MBA is an asset but not a requirement of this role.
  • Project Management Certification (i.e. PMP, etc.) is an asset.
  • Minimum of 6 years of procurement experience, with retail industry as a preference.
  • Experience in preparing, leading, negotiating and awarding RFX.
  • Solid expertise in the development and roll-out of transformation programs.
  • Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to lead and work in cross functional teams.
  • Understanding of service requirements in grocery retail business.
  • Ability to influence change.

Notre engagement envers la durabilité et l'impact social est un élément essentiel de notre façon de faire des affaires. Nous concentrons notre attention sur les domaines où nous pouvons avoir le plus grand impact. Notre approche de la durabilité et de l'impact social repose sur trois piliers - l'environnement, l'approvisionnement et la communauté. Nous recherchons constamment des moyens de faire preuve de leadership dans ces domaines importants. Nos valeurs ÊTRE - Engagement, Tient à coeur, Respect et Excellence - guident toutes nos prises de décision et prennent vie à travers notre culture bleue. Nous offrons à nos collègues des carrières progressives, une formation complète, de la flexibilité ainsi que les nombreux avantages compétitifs - voici quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons pour lesquelles nous sommes classés au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs du Canada, au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour la diversité au Canada, au palmarès des employeurs les plus verts au Canada et au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour les jeunes au Canada.

Si vous ne savez pas si votre expérience correspond à toutes les exigences ci-dessus, nous vous encourageons à postuler quand même. Nous recherchons des perspectives de candidatures variées, qui incluent des expériences diverses que nous pouvons ajouter à notre équipe.

Nous nous concentrons depuis longtemps sur la diversité, l'équité et l'inclusion, car nous savons que cela fera de notre entreprise un meilleur lieu de travail et de magasinage. Nous nous engageons à créer des environnements accessibles pour nos collègues, candidats et clients. Les demandes d'aménagement en raison d'un handicap (qui peut être visible ou pas, temporaire ou permanent) peuvent être faites à n'importe quel stade de la demande et de l'emploi. Nous encourageons les candidats à faire connaître leurs besoins en matière d'accommodation afin que nous puissions offrir des opportunités équitables.

Veuillez noter: Les candidats âgés de 18 ans ou plus doivent effectuer une vérification des antécédents criminels. Les détails seront fournis lors du processus d’embauche.

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