Sourcing Manager

2 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada Manulife Full time

**_Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you. _**

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

Individual Responsibilities:

- Lead cross-functional teams to execute on medium to high value/complexity sourcing projects and contracting efforts
- Lead supplier negotiations particularly for large complex transactions, and ensure execution of developed strategy
- Determine sourcing strategy and conduct analysis and negotiations for projects.
- Generate and leverage market and supplier intelligence and data for development of sourcing and negotiation strategies.
- Work with business partners to collect and finalize requirements necessary to evaluate and select suppliers
- Establish deal teams for large sourcing engagements
- Develop terms sheet based on negotiation strategies, with input from the business partners.
- Drive and lead the contract negotiation process, with consultative support, as required, from legal and risk.
- Track, monitor, and manage sourcing and contracting agenda across the category including progress, risk, and benefits development and realization
- Interface directly with business partners and vendor/contract managers
- Influence requirements from business partners necessary to evaluate and select suppliers
- Conduct baseline and market analysis, develop sourcing strategy and conduct contract negotiations
- Provide sourcing thought leadership and day-to-day oversight of resource activities
- Be responsible for the accuracy of contract archives
- Track expirations of existing contracts and develop work plan for renewals, interact with legal and drafting teams to incorporate results of negotiations into contract documents
- Provide supporting analytics to finance team to validate realized savings
- Manage relations with key business partners and project owners to develop/maintain strong working relationships

**Job Requirement**:

- **Market Data experience will be an asset**:

- **Solid sourcing experience in Financial, IT and Investment categories**:

- **Experience with vendors such as Simcorp, Broadridge, Moodys, Charles River, Bloomberg, Factset, Morningstar, Blackrock will be considered an asset**:

- **Experience in creating sourcing strategy**:

- Undergraduate degree (business preferred)
- 4+ years of progressive business experience in global supply chain management
- In-depth knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and best practices
- In-depth experience and expertise with supplier contractual terms and conditions to mitigate legal and business risk
- Experience with sourcing and procurement systems and tools
- Solid analytical skills
- Problem analyzer and decision maker - effectively searches and uses industry and market insights; able to assimilate, synthesize, and present complex information in a value-added form; attention to detail; evaluates feasibility and practicality of ideas and options; takes ownership and makes informed and timely decisions.
- Proven innovator - expert in identifying and implementing change management and business process transformation; consistently challenges the status quo; takes balanced risks to promote growth of ideas; comfortable in high pressure environments.
- Strategic thinker - thinks conceptually beyond day-to-day business realities; creates a clear vision and goals and adopts a long-term perspective; anticipates emerging issues.
- Global thinker - dedicated to improving the Company’s competitive position on an enterprise and global level; understands and is respectful of what works in different parts of the world and what doesn’t.
- Team builder - builds strategic partnerships with internal clients and vendors; builds buy-in and engagement with key stakeholders.
- Skilled communicator - communicates complexity with clarity and ease; articulates a clear view of concepts, ideas, and objectives; able to interface with different stakeholders at all levels; represents the company externally with confidence; skilled in both oral and written communication.
- Collaborator - shares resources and leverages knowledge across the organization; builds and nurtures an extensive network.
- Proven experience in delivering large savings and value in a procurement function
- Passion for the success of the procurement operating model
- Strong customer service orientation: adept at cultivating and sustaining value-add business partnerships with internal stakeholders at a senior executive level
- Able to work in a cross-functional international team environment and collaborate effectively across different organizational levels, functions, businesses, and geographies to realize procurement goals and objectives
- Focused on managing and meeting sometimes conflic



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