Analyst, Strategic Sourcing

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada Holt Renfrew Full time

Holt Renfrew offers you an inspiring, fashion-driven environment with opportunities to learn and grow. From our incredible partnerships with iconic luxury brands, to our commitments to corporate social responsibility, you will be inspired every day.

A job at Holt Renfrew offers a competitive total compensation, a generous employee discount, pension, and health & dental benefits, tuition assistance, and continuous learning and development.

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:
Market intelligence & Data Analysis activities to support category management strategies

Key responsibilities (40%)
- Research supply markets and industry trends throughout trade publication, sales interview to demonstrate the benefits to Holt Renfrew.
- Seek for new way of working and deep interest in technology
- Prepare appropriate recommendations and presentations based on research findings and analysis across categories
- Analyze and produce high quality category spend and savings analysis and commentaries.
- Present reports to key leadership and stakeholders outlining current practices and specific recommendations for changes.
- Monitor vendor performance and provide input to Sourcing Managers

Procurement - Key Responsibilities (50%)
- Work with the Store Operational teams to ensure contract terms, Service Level Agreements and escalations are understood throughout the sourcing/contracting phase and communicate their ownership of the contract upon execution.
- Issues purchase requisitions within authorized limits and schedules deliveries.
- Prioritize high volume of inquiries from the business (purchase request, purchase orders, cancelling and time sensitive orders, documents requirement and validation before approving the purchase order).
- Work closely with business partners to understand their needs, keep them informed at all times, provide strategic advice on purchase and educate then on all procurement process.
- Maintains, influences, and deepens relationship with stakeholders.
- Records ordering information, issues purchase orders to suppliers, in compliance with Procurement procedures to obtain purchase order numbers.
- Follows up on orders and coordinates the management of purchase orders

Indirect Strategic Sourcing
- Key Responsibilities (10%):

- Researches, identifies and recommends potential suppliers.
- Ability to manage vendor relationships and facilitating internal requirement gathering conversations.
- Obtain, reviews and evaluates quotations.
- Collaborate and support Indirect Strategic Sourcing Manager with RFP planning process, cost comparison, and coordinate with legal contract approval and documentation process within the sourcing contract tool.
- Responsible for communication, coordination and implementation of small sourcing initiatives and contract negotiations to suppliers and operations team.
- Ensure compliance to sourcing and contracting policies and procedures
- Responsible for data integrity of contract database - oversee maintenance and enhancement of central contract database.
- Establish work priorities, help in the scoping exercise and resolve issues with the Sourcing team and the Business, to assure internal customer satisfaction.
- Gather and coordinate information needed for existing agreements.
- Excellent communication skills (i.e. providing regular updates, exhibiting leadership capabilities).
- Act as a liaison between project manager’s/business units and proponents through the sourcing process.
- Work collaboratively with all business areas to contract solutions that successfully meet business priorities. Facilitate information flow between Holt Renfrew business units and vendors.
- Other duties as assigned
- 3-5 years in similar role and function preferred
- SCMP or CIPS designation is an asset
- Creative with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity
- Ability to work in a high pressure and fast paced environment
- Strong detail-oriented problem solver with positive approach to challenges
- Customer focus by demonstrating a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customer needs
- Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business
- Outcome focused, critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across the organization
- Collaborative team player with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward
- Initiative to locate proper sources of supplies/disposals, expedite deliveries and maintain optimum business relations with vendors.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and interpersonal skills to develop effective working relationships with internal business partners and vendors
- Good organizational and time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Exceptional skills in facilitating meetings, interviewing,



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