Procurement Manager

7 months ago

Richmond, Canada Lafarge Canada Inc Full time

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a
**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
The
**Procurement Manager** will implement procurement strategies in close cooperation with North America Category Managers and the Business for the Richmond Cement Plant, Seattle Grinding Plant, Kamloops Grinding and Cement Terminals in Western Canada and Pacific North West. They will lead local supplier procurement efforts and manage the operational and tactical procurement of local goods and services, including: contract implementation, category strategy execution, and communicate supplier performance through the procurement team.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the operational and tactical procurement of goods and services categories in accordance with category strategy, as well as applicable policies, procedures and specifications.
- Act as the point of contact between North America Category Management and operations.
- Drive the realization of savings, supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements, in line with regional and global procurement strategies.
- Identify procurement saving opportunities and initiate individual projects & initiatives at all operational levels.
- Negotiate in close coordination with Category Management and other WCAN Operations Procurement Managers for local volumes, processes, quality levels and prices.
- Drive professionalization of procurement processes.

**Tasks**:

- Identify local saving opportunities and record monthly savings tracker.
- Ensure global & local policies and procedures are conveyed to end users in the Procurement of goods and services.
- Initiate and support the RFx process locally as defined by category strategy.
- Align internal decision makers through focused communication.
- Approve local purchase orders for supplies, equipment and services within authorized signature limits.
- Assure compliance with applicable laws, ethical standards, policies and codes of business conduct.
- Ensure that own country executes category strategy as required and agreed. Where compliance is an issue, find and eliminate root causes.
- Measure performance through KPI’s according to existing templates.
- Ensure locally generated savings are reported as required, and according to category guidelines.
- Track achieved results.

**Relationship with Other Jobs**:

- Internal:_
- Operational Management (e.g. plant managers and plant leadership team
- North American Category Management and Holcim Trading
- WCAN Procurement Team
- External:_
- Vendors

Qualifications:
**Education**:

- University Degree in Business or Engineering or equivalent experience.

**Experience and Skill Set**:

- Minimum 5 years in procurement role (category management, sourcing, operations) with exposure to supply chain management, strategic sourcing and optimal procurement processes and standards
- Demonstrated performance in working within cross-functional teams, with requisite drive and energy to ensure that a challenging benefits and capability building agenda is successfully delivered.
- Experience in cement or heavy industrial setting an asset.

**Technical/Functional Skills**:

- Excellent computer skillsAbility to understand the technical aspects of LafargeHolcim product lines from a procurement perspective.

**Leadership & Managerial Competencies**:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively/convincingly at all levels (including technical and operational) and with all functions at least in English and local language.
- Effective time management, planning and organization skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and drive tasks to completion in a fixed time-frame and in a pressured environment.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and build relationships across multiple functions.
- Ability to deal with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships.
- Superior negotiation skills.
- Proven ability in analysis and interpretation of data.
- Proven ability to identify problems quickly, make sound judgments, establish and implement solutions.

**Direct Reports**:

- Warehouse Supervisor
- Procurement Coordinator
- Buyer

**_ As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required._**

LafargeHolcim:
As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are
**passionate**, driven by
**curiosity** and keen to
**grow**,
**learn, develop** and
**thrive** in our high-performance culture.

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