Manager, Regional Contracts and Supply Chain

2 weeks ago

Greater Sudbury, Canada Vale Canada Full time

**Job Title: Manager, Regional Contracts and Supply Chain**
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**Who We Are**:
Welcome to Vale. Our purpose is to improve life and transform the future. Together. We value our workforce and strive to offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

Vale Base Metals is one of the world's largest producers of high-quality nickel and an important producer of copper and responsibly sourced cobalt. With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and operations in Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, UK, Indonesia, and Brazil, we are delivering the critical building blocks for a cleaner, greener future.

We invite you to be part of our evolution.

**Our Team**:
Our Sudbury Operations have been in existence for more than 100 years. With five mines, a mill, a smelter, a refinery and nearly 4,000 employees it is also one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world.

The Port Colborne Refinery was also commissioned 100 years ago on the shore of Lake Erie. Raw materials and finished products from Vale's Sudbury and Newfoundland and Labrador operations are transported to Port Colborne for processing.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a Manager, Regional Contracts and Supply Chain to join our Surface project team in **Sudbury**. The position is accountable for the Supply Chain Management (SCM) scope for a given area inside the NAPG matrix organization structure. This includes the post award contractual and financial management of all professional services, purchasing, and construction contracts for the Projects within an area's portfolio. It involves developing and implementing specific control measures to ensure the successful execution and management of all contracts within the project. Your accountabilities will include:

- Ensure the Capital Projects Procurement group is aligned with the Project Execution Plan in the sourcing and selection of major purchases and contracts, including: bidder selection, requests for bids/proposals, technical and commercial bid evaluations, and the award of contracts and purchase orders.
- Lead a team of professionals specializing in requisitioning, expediting and contract management, ensuring that functionals objectives are achieved to meet the overall project plan.
- Provides direction and legal/contractual expertise to the Engineering and Construction teams to ensure scopes of work align with the procurement strategy and are suitable for soliciting quality proposals from the market.
- Leads the design and implementation of an effective change management process and contract close-out plan that minimizes the time necessary to achieve operations acceptance of contracts.
- Guides, mentors, and provides functional supervision to the projects integrated contracts management and supply chain team, including Vale staff, third party personnel and Project Management consultant employees.
- Ensures compliance of all contract management related matters with the Global Projects Group policies and procedures (SPE), legal and regulatory requirements, insurance, finance, tax, and Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) requirements.
- Responsible for managing the interfaces and ensuring effecting communication between the various functional areas within the Project as it relates to both the procurement of goods and services and the execution of all awarded contracts. This includes interfaces between the following parties: Procurement, Vendors and Contractors, Construction Management, Engineering, Expediting, Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC), Logistics and Materials Management.
- Provides technical expertise to support the negotiations of major/complex contracts (e.g. with ECM Contractor).
- Establishes and implements processes which eliminate or reduce Vale's exposure to identified or developing execution risk. Possesses an extensive experience base on a wide variety of claim conditions and applies this knowledge to reduce the Company's overall risk exposure by preventing or avoiding claims. Supports Capital Projects Procurement by assessing technical impact of claim and providing data to support and defend the Company's position.

**About You**

Education**:

- An undergraduate degree in Commerce, Law, Engineering, or relevant discipline.

**Experience**:
Knowledge & Skills:

- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- In depth experience working within an EPCM or integrated project execution model
- Expert negotiator, with clear concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with entire Contract administration cycle of EPCM contracts in excess of $75 million or more
- Procurement expertise on capital projects valued at $400 million or greater.
- Claims Management Experience.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills.
- Strong digital literacy, especially with Microsoft Office Suite.

**How can Vale grow your career?**

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