Procurement Manager

5 months ago

Nisku, Canada The Little Potato Company Full time

**PRIMARY FOCUS**:
The Procurement Manager will plan, organize, direct, manage, evaluate, and is responsible for the budget, purchasing activities, purchasing policies and strategy for LPC including the identification of opportunities for procurement and sourcing improvements.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
- Plan, organize, direct, manage, and evaluate the purchasing activities and budget of LPC procurement and sourcing departments.
- Develop and manage the LPC’s purchasing policies, procedures, standards, and strategies in order to ensure process transparency, fairness, impartiality, and confidentiality.
- Develop and manage the proposal, bidding, and negotiation process while adhering to applicable legal standards and codes of ethical conduct.
- Comply with and maintain knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, standards, and best practices.
- Ensure all purchasing activities support and strengthen the strategic objectives of LPC’s procurement model.
- Ensure the adequacy of specifications for purchasing purposes.
- Negotiate major purchases, develop blanket or master agreements with suppliers, and engage in all aspects of contract management.
- Review supplier financial statements/reports and evaluate overall supplier health (supplier risk assessment).
- Review and assess total supply chain risk related to procurement and sourcing and identify opportunities to minimize and eliminate risk.
- Develop and measure key performance indicators to determine and improve the effectiveness of the purchasing function. Report to senior management
- Analyze purchasing related information and evaluate the results to choose the best resolution and alternatives to supply challenges.
- Identify, qualify, and select vendors of materials, products, or services, and conduct overall supplier management.
- Evaluate cost and quality of materials, equipment, products, or services and meet budget goals
- Manage purchase requisitions/orders.
- Review records of materials, products, or services ordered and received to ensure accurately entered into ERP.
- Generate and/or review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, and demand forecasts.
- Participate in new product launches making recommendations based on vendor costs, quality, capabilities and feasibility to the business.
- Analyze market and ERP systems to assess present and future material availability and alternative sources of supply.
- Direct ownsership and maintenance of packaging material at copackers and offsite warehouses, responsibility for the cycle count process for both internal plants and copackers. Drive the team to meet budget goals, address issues as they arise minimize write offs at the year end Physical Inventory.
- Participate in make or buy decisions.
- Interview, select, coach, train, manage, and appraise the performance of associated personnel and mentor select staff.
- Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Communicate information to all internal and external stakeholders using the appropriate communication method.

**desired qualifications**:

- 5+ years in a Procurement (Buyer and/or Sourcing) position with a medium sized company.
- Post-secondary education relating to Business or Logistics.
- SCMP/P.MM/CPM/APICS considered an asset.
- Familiarity with potential product quality issues.
- Experience leading highly functional teams a plus.
- Outstanding organizational skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Function in a time sensitive environment.
- Able to work independently with mínimal supervision.
- Some travel expected (i.e. Vendor audits &/or other LPC locations).

**KEY COMPETENCIES**:
**Knowledge** A Procurement Manager should have knowledge of supply chain, applicable laws and regulations, the English language, other languages as required, administration and management, production and processing, mathematics, personnel and human resources, economics and accounting, relevant tools and technology, customer and personal service, and education and training.

**Skills** A Procurement Manager should have the following skill sets: negotiation, persuasion, supervisory, active listening and learning, critical thinking, analytical thinking, judgment and decision making, reading comprehension, management of material resources, project management, mathematics, time management, presentation, and operations analysis.

**PHYSICAL DEMANDS**:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

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