Procurement Specialist

7 days ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver City Savings Credit Union Full time
About Vancouver City Savings Credit Union

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union is a member-owned financial institution built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. With a strong commitment to its values, the credit union has been challenging the status quo and breaking down barriers since its inception in 1946. The organization has made bold commitments to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040 across all mortgages and loans, and is pursuing strategies to improve the financial resilience of its members.

The credit union is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and has been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada. If you're interested in joining a team of 2,700 diverse individuals and accessing competitive rewards and benefits, all while knowing you are part of a greater movement, then this role may be for you.

About the Role

This is a full-time, permanent position that will enjoy hybrid working arrangements, which can be fulfilled primarily from the credit union's head office location and your Lower Mainland-based home office. Periodically, you'll be required to attend in-person activities or events.

Key Responsibilities
  • Responsible and accountable for overseeing the functionality and operation of all internal procurement systems/platforms and implementing new processes within the systems, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and continual process improvement for efficiencies.
  • Owning the vendor onboarding program and implementing it successfully for each new vendor.
  • Reviewing vendor contracts against the credit union and regulatory standards, removing gaps, providing alternate language and first-round redlines.
  • Package contract issues, gaps, and potential redlines into consumable work packages for formal legal review by the credit union's legal team.
  • Review and negotiate all contract changes directly with the vendor.
  • Responsible for acting as SME for all procurement system implementations and upgrades.
  • Provide coaching, guidance, and support to the procurement team and business stakeholders in order to build knowledge and capability and increase workflow efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Supports Vendor IT Strategic Relationships by owning a portfolio of vendors and overseeing their performance and interactions with business and technical stakeholders and driving ever-improved performance.
  • Interface with the credit union's processes and teams to ensure that procurement functions align with all other credit union teams and processes.
Requirements
  • A University or Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
  • 5 years of work experience in procurement, vendor management, or a related field.
  • 5 years' experience reviewing, managing, redlining, and negotiating contracts.
What We Offer
  • We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada.
  • Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.
  • New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff may be able to purchase extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
  • In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, the credit union provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
  • Our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of health care and dental coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
  • We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at the credit union, we will offer you a Defined pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

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