Category Lead

4 months ago

Brampton, Canada Rogers Communications Full time

We are committed to connecting Canadians through unique partnerships, our world-class network and content Canadians love—and our innovative team is growing. We are looking for dedicated team members to join our Corporate team who have a genuine passion for making positive impacts on customers and the communities where we live and work. We have a variety of business units with exciting and meaningful work waiting for you, including Communications, HR, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Supply Chain, Finance, and Real Estate. If you are considering your next step, we have exciting opportunities waiting for you. Come build a rewarding career at Rogers and be a driving force behind our success story

**What you’ll do**:

- Take ownership of assigned spend categories and projects to deliver procurement and company objectives and business partner goals.
- Identify cost savings objectives for assigned categories/projects and drive the total cost of ownership reductions by aggregating demand to leverage Rogers’ scale and scope, standardization and cost savings.
- Act as a first level escalation point for issues related to suppliers for which you are identified as the procurement prime.
- Manage the analysis of spend data to assist with the identification of sourcing and cost take-out opportunities.
- Ensure procurement cost saving challenges are built into the capital and operating budgets and Procurement’s projects and efforts are aligned to meet budget expectations.
- Ensure procurement projects and savings are tracked against the budget and targets.
- Assist in additional analytical related activities including but not limited to compliance, catalogue adoption rates, procurement metrics and dashboards, etc.
- Drive relationships with assigned key suppliers within your categories/projects ensuring fulfilment of contractual obligations and business partner requirements.
- Manage assigned supplier issue and dispute escalations to settlement, including negotiations and settlement agreement execution.
- Develop and maintain solid relationships with key internal stakeholders across the organization to ensure suppliers within the category and the category strategy are meeting business needs.
- Actively participate in efforts to drive continuous improvement, implementation of innovations and automations to create best-in-class procurement practices that are intuitive and user-friendly for internal stakeholders and suppliers.
- Ensure compliance with ethical procurement practices, procurement policies, supplier social responsibility objectives, and supplier diversity and sustainability programs.
- Act as internal resource to business owners on sourcing practices, supplier performance, compliance, and risk management policies, processes, and procurement standard practices.

**What you need to succeed**:

- University/post-secondary degree required. Such degree in business, engineering, computer science, math, or related field with a general understanding of business operations, financial modeling, is desirable.
- 3 years+ procurement, telecommunications, finance, IT or equivalent experience
- Experience supporting multiple projects and priorities in telecommunications industry or IT is a strong asset
- Strong communications, listening and influencing skills, able to communicate complex information to decision makers and key stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
- Critical thinking mindset and analytic skills. Creativity to seek, encourage and find non-traditional approaches
- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and resolve multi-party conflicts to drive decisions and deliver results on-time
- Motivated self-starter and quick study of complicated technical topics
- Strong interpersonal skills; a collaborator with a professional presence and a demonstrated ability to navigate difficult situations through relationship building and influencing others
- Proven ability to execute against multiple projects and excel in a fast-paced, consistently changing, results-oriented work environment
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills are required, as well as excellent attention to accuracy and detail
- Must be able to create comprehensive project plans and execute with discipline
- Requires proficiency in Microsoft products including Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Demonstrated experience of Strategic Sourcing practices is desirable, but not required

Schedule: Full time
Shift: Day
Length of Contract: Not Applicable (Regular Position)
Work Location: 8200 Dixie Road (101), Brampton, ON
Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
Posting Category/Function: Procurement & Category Management
Requisition ID: 282328

Posting Notes: Corporate

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