Intermediate Officer, Purchasing

2 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada University of Ottawa Full time

**Job Type**:
Employee

**Duration in Months** **(for fixed-term jobs):
12

**Job Family**:
Procurement

**# of Open Positions**:
1

**Faculty/Service - Department**:
Purchasing

**Campus**:
Roger Guindon Hall

**Union Affiliation**:
SSUO

**Date Posted**:
October 14, 2024

**Applications must be received **BEFORE**:
October 25, 2024

**Hours per week**:
35

**Salary Grade**:
SSUO Grade 07

**Salary Range**:
$56,626.00 - $71,528.00

About the Faculty of Medicine
Welcome to the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the first and largest bilingual medical faculty in Canada. Our learners have access to state-of-the art facilities and specialized institutions as they learn alongside world-class physicians and scientists. Consistently ranked among the top 10 medical schools in Canada, our faculty is among the top faculties of medicine in the world for research impact in biomedical and health sciences.

**Position purpose**:
Purchases goods and services for the entire faculty or service in compliance with all relevant policies in order to support administrative, teaching and research activities. Acts as a resource person for members of the faculty or service regarding goods and services procurement.

**In this role, your responsibilities will include**:

- Purchasing: Makes decentralized purchases and participates in the centralized purchasing process for goods and services required for the faculty or service’s teaching, research and administrative activities, in accordance with all relevant policies. Speaks with suppliers to obtain prices and quotes for internal clients. Periodically reconciles purchases with the financial system to ensure that transactions are sent to the appropriate cost centre.
- Procurement Tracking: Verifies, reconciles and approves supplier invoices in accordance with established policies and procedures. Follows up with purchasing irregularities, such as items missing when products are received, damaged merchandise, and incorrectly applied taxes. Helps clear foreign goods through customs. Might be asked to receive ordered goods and store them in accordance with relevant standards and procedures.
- Information and Client Service: Acts as a resource person for members of the faculty or service by explaining goods and services procurement processes, deadlines and practices.
- Reporting: Enters and updates purchasing and invoicing data. Provides various simple to moderately complex reports concerning procurement activities on both a scheduled and ad-hoc basis in order to support day-to-day operations and planning.
- Records Management: Establishes and maintains an effective filing and records management system to keep records confidential and ensure that complete and accurate documentation is available for future reference or audit purposes.

**What you will bring**:
Essential Qualifications:

- Postsecondary education in administration and office technology or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Minimum two years of demonstrated experience in a similar role

Other Qualifications
- Knowledge of procurement principles and practices
- Knowledge of University procurement policies and procedures, and of procurement legislation
- Knowledge of tax and customs legislation and regulations
- Ability to work under pressure and adapt to shifting priorities
- Experience purchasing supplies and scientific equipment an asset
- Knowledge of rules and practices in the safe transportation and handling of dangerous goods
- Knowledge of federal and provincial legislation on occupational health and safety, environmental protection and the transportation of dangerous goods
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and customer service skills
- Initiative, self-reliance, good judgment
- Bilingualism - English and French (oral and written)

**Key Competencies at uOttawa**:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
**Planning**:Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
**Initiative**:Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
**Client Service Orientation**:Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
**Teamwork and Cooperation**:Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

**Note: if this is a union position**:The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

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