Manager, Procurement Services

6 months ago

Burnaby, Canada BC Hydro Full time

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**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:

- Leads, directs and oversees a team of professionals engaged in the delivery of sourcing

services for a wide range of medium to high value, complexity and risk commodities and services
in client groups across the organization
- Monitors team operation to ensure overall compliance with corporate and industry standards and

policies, and to mitigate exposure to risk
- Provides input into corporate policy development and interprets existing procurement and

sourcing policies impacting the team. Adapts policies for specific services and commodities by

- Monitors compliance and initiates action to correct deficiencies in department sourcing and

procurement controls
- Monitors team development and delivery of sourcing activities and strategy implementation to

achieve optimum value to BC Hydro. Consults with managers on med-high value, complexity, and
risk RFPs where relationships, perceptions, political considerations, long term impacts or other
factors require escalation and resolution
- As an active member of the Purchasing management team, contributes to the development and

implementation of the expiring contract plan, by reviewing local, regional and national economic
and market trends in categories of spend specific to services, products and materials undergoing
sourcing activities. Incorporates benchmark information from other utilities and agencies where
available. Identifies sourcing options such as supplier consolidation, regional diversification of
spend, security of supply options, assesses potential impact on spend reduction and vendor
management and presents sourcing strategies to compliment and support the achievement of
business objectives and KPIs for low to medium risk spend categories. Scope of planning impacts
the spend for all services and materials identified in the expiring contracts plan assigned to
- Purchasing- Consults with Supply Chain Central Services team metrics specialists, develops Key

Performance Indicators to measure team operation and outputs consistent with overall Business
- Group KPIs for procurement and sourcing- Reports regularly to senior management on sourcing status including cycle times, compliance,

customer satisfaction levels, cost savings/cost avoidance, transaction reduction and other
- productivity metrics. Where trends affecting positive team performance are encountered, plans
- and implements corrective action to ensure team success. This may include realignment of roles
- and responsibilities- Accountable for managing and meeting annual cost centre operating and staffing budget targets
- Leads the development of effective relationships with key internal and external contacts

including client groups, governance specialists, vendors and suppliers, counterparts in other
- crown corporations and external agencies. At the senior management level (M3 and up), resolves
- client group concerns escalated by team managers. Maintains liaison with in-house legal counsel
- in unique or highly complex situations involving risk, liability and/or non-compliance. Maintains
- regular contact with senior managers in business areas such as operations, PCM, Construction
- Services, IT and Properties to facilitate effective problem-solving around capacity, quality, and
- requirements affecting sourcing strategies- Provides guidance to managers, procurement professionals and evaluation teams in the

development of key procurement documents (strategies, recommendations, briefings, etc.) which
- will achieve success in securing services or materials while establishing and maintaining positive
- and productive supplier relations throughout the life of the contract and beyond- Maintains up to date knowledge of best practices, policies, systems procedures, legal

requirements and market conditions affecting procurement, sourcing and contract management
- across all business groups through regular networking with internal sourcing counterparts,
- professional associations and industry contacts- Problem solving is carried out independently and with a significant level of freedom to act when

making decisions around sourcing strategies, negotiation of

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