Manager Strategic Sourcing

2 months ago


Montréal QC, Canada Intelcom Full time

Ride the next mile with us
- Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Development:High-Performing Team Management: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of sourcing professionals, providing strategic direction and fostering continuous learning and improvement.
-Culture Cultivation: Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing among team members, emphasizing collective success and individual growth.
-Performance Optimization: Establish clear performance expectations (monitor all resource workloads) and provide ongoing support to optimize team performance (re-allocate tasks as needed) and individual growth.
-Risk Management: ensure continuity of the operations by building redundancies, maintaining knowledge library and cross-training.
-Customer Services: Establish high standards of team customer service.

Strategic Sourcing:
Lead and manage sourcing events, independently or in collaboration with the Director of Procurement & Sourcing:Demand Analysis:

-Partnering and collaborating with internal business units and cross-functional team to determine business requirements.
-Market Research:

-Conduct supply market research and baseline spend analysis.
-Sourcing Strategy:

-Establish sourcing strategies that deliver financial and non-financial benefits (e.g. service levels, risk mitigation).
-Tendering (RFx):

-Prepare and issue RFI, RFQ or RFPs as agreed with internal business units and cross-functional team.
-Supplier Evaluation & Selection
-Evaluate responses and conduct negotiations with best-in-class procurement methods (Total Cost of Ownership analysis, impartial scorecards, negotiation tip & tactics to improve negotiation leverage and bargaining power, etc.).
-Provides expert recommendations to internal stakeholders. Establishes and maintains effective partnering relationships within the Business units and internal support organizations and externally with suppliers (occasionally with customers).
-Contract Negotiation:

-Lead contract negotiations and oversee contract drafting and execution.
-Establishes Service Level Agreements with internal customers and Key Performance Indicators for the Organization to meet annual objectives and long-term strategies.
-Supplier Onboarding in collaboration with procurement operations and finance team.
-Supplier Performance & Relationship Management (develop and manages):

-Conducts Supplier Relationship Management framework with key suppliers.
-Expertly uses a complete set of legal, commercial and business principles to develop and enforce partnership agreements with strategic suppliers, in close relation with Legal and other relevant departments.
-Locates appropriate vendors in emerging countries and develops sustainable partnerships.
-Leads market intelligence to identify relevant external innovations and seek competitive advantages by partnering with world-class suppliers.

Category Management-
Leads formulation and implementation of category strategies. Conducts category intelligence research and partners with stakeholders to deliver financial and other performance targets such as service, quality, and risk management.
-Conducts cross-functional cost reduction, cost avoidance and/or net cash working capital improvement initiatives. Builds a culture and delivers sustainable value without compromising supply assurance or quality.
-Contribute to the improvement of internal procurement practices:

-Participate in the establishment of best-in-class procurement methods.
-Develop models to evaluate supplier proposals using quantitative and qualitative criteria.
-Supports Purchasing and Project teams in resolving issues with key suppliers.
-Follows relevant category metrics to consistently deliver the expected cost reduction plans.

Performance Tracking and Reporting:Comprehensive Tracking Systems: Develop and uphold comprehensive tracking and reporting systems to monitor sourcing performance (such as (but not limited to: i) RFx activities; ii) spend under management per category and sub-categories; iii) contract renewals; iv) supplier relationship management), delivering frequent updates and actionable insights to senior management.

Operational Excellence & Governance:Champion Optimization: Lead efforts to optimize S-2-P processes, prioritizing superior efficiency value, and user experience for all stakeholders involved in procuring goods and services.
-Best Practice Development: Develop and implement best practices, standards, RFx templates and guidelines to streamline strategic sourcing processes, fostering a culture of innovation and efficiency.
-Strategic Vision Execution: Develop, articulate, and execute the strategic vision and objectives of central-led initiatives, ensuring alignment with the organization's overarching goals.
-Drive Governance: Drive adoption and ensure compliance for S-2-P punchouts or guided buying. Establish a S-2-P governance program to ensure realization of business case benefits (increase spend



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