Senior Procurement Specialist

4 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Avature Full time
Job Summary:
A senior procurement specialist is needed to provide strategic sourcing expertise and support our clients' procurement requirements in the indirect spend category of Marketing. This role requires regular business travel to remote client locations based on project requirements.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Manage multiple competitive bid events for clients (i.e., Request for Proposal, Request for Quote, Request for Information, Reverse Auctions etc.) within assigned spend categories.
2. Analyze client's historical spend data in one or more categories in order to identify sourcing opportunities, support category strategy development, and measure compliance with supplier agreements.
3. Build and maintain stakeholder relationships across all levels of the client's business, procurement, and legal organizations.
4. Negotiate commercial terms and facilitate contracting processes with the client's suppliers.
5. Analyze and document cost savings versus historical spend to ensure IBM meets or exceeds contractual savings commitments to our clients.
6. Identify opportunities to transform the client's procurement organization and policies, and to support the client in achieving its strategic business objectives.
7. Support Global Category Leaders and Category Managers with the development of category strategies and developing sourcing project strategies.
8. Collaborate with peer consultants supporting our other clients to share and leverage useful templates, strategies, lessons learned, and case studies.

Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education:
Master's Degree

Technical and Professional Expertise:
1. Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Law, or another applicable field.
2. Prior experience leading end-to-end competitive bids and supplier negotiations.
3. Ability to travel to client locations based on business requirements.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:
1. Previous experience supporting the Marketing Category including experience in sub-categories such as: Creative & Advertising, Production, Digital, Media, Branding, Promotional Items, Market Research, and Events.
2. Client Relationship Management: Ability to build rapport with clients and maintain professionalism in communications with all levels of client stakeholders. On-time delivery of high-quality analyses and presentations.
3. Data Analysis: Ability to utilize procurement and financial data to understand spending trends within a business, and to leverage that information to identify procurement insights that result in process efficiencies or cost savings for the client.
4. Strategic Thinking: Understanding of the importance of 'big picture' thinking and planning. Ability to apply business acumen to focus on key success factors for the organization.
5. Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
6. Dealing with Disorder: Knowledge of tactics and ability to function effectively in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
7. Microsoft Office: Strong knowledge and proficiency of Microsoft Office suite. Ability to efficiently and accurately analyze procurement data using Microsoft Excel, and to build client-ready presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Procurement Knowledge:
Knowledge of Procurement methods, technologies and processes.

Work Arrangement:
This position is an onsite work arrangement.

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