Purchase Agent

6 months ago

Winnipeg, Canada Manitoba Public Insurance Full time

Overview:
As a Purchasing Agent in the Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management department you will act as a legal agent of the corporation for the procurement of all goods and services required in maintaining operational and informational requirements of the corporation.

**Responsibilities**:

- Purchase corporate goods and services using a centralized purchasing environment by utilizing formal tenders, requests for proposals, requests for standing offers and contact/price negotiations.
- Prepare and vet appropriate tender and proposal documents.
- Analyse vendor responses to tenders and proposals and prepare award recommendations providing detailed qualitative, quantitative and financial analysis.
- Administer purchasing contracts. Resolve post contractual problems and recommend amendments and/or terminations of contracts.
- Ensure corporate and departmental policies and procedures are complied with. Ensure that the purchasing terms and conditions are adequate and that the goods and services procured fully satisfy the needs of the user departments.
- Perform value analysis with user departments to ensure best value considering total cost, performance, reliability, quality and maintainability.

Qualifications:

- Diploma in Business or related discipline or equivalent courses as identified and approved by the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA).
- Three years direct purchasing experience.
- Actively enrolled and expecting to complete the Supply Chain Management Professional Designation Program (SCMP) within five years (previous equivalent PMAC) or an equivalent professional designation, or an equivalent combination of education and training.
- Intermediate customer service skills with the ability to deal tactfully with sensitive issues in a confidential manner; while maintaining a professional balance between customer and organizational needs.
- Intermediate communication skills with the ability to convey moderately complex information in a concise and straightforward manner for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Advanced knowledge of goods and services procured.
- High standard of integrity and ethics.

Employee Benefits:
**Health benefits**

We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

- flexible health, dental and vision plans
- health spending account
- travel health coverage
- other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

**Financial security**

In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

- registered pension plan
- group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
- critical illness insurance
- sick leave to cover short-term disability
- long-term disability

**Wellness**

We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

- vacation entitlement
- flexible work arrangement for eligible positions
- maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
- bereavement and family responsibility leaves
- employee and family assistance program
- mental-health programming
- lunch-and-learn offerings
- MPI gym at Cityplace
- discounted gym memberships and wellness account

**Diversity and inclusion**

Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

**Employee recognition**

It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

**Professional development**

We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up-to-date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

**Safety and health**

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.

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