Procurement Manager, Hardgoods

**Overview**:
For over 25 years we’ve been helping our community with essential oil blends that actually work. These essential oil blends treat stress, pain, gut, balance, and support in relaxation prior to sleep, and for symptoms of coughs and colds. We know that a life committed to wellness is greater than one focused on illness, and believe that reaching for natural can enhance your long-term health and wellness, every day.

We have been ranked by Canadian Business and PROFIT as one of Canada’s fastest growing companies. To support us on our journey, we are seeking diverse, purpose-lead people to join our team.

Get ready to celebrate global wellness with us.

**Description**:
Reporting to the Director, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement. the **Procurement Manager, Hardgoods** is responsible for developing and maintaining healthy vendor relationship; leading negotiation to obtain the possible best price, payment term and shipping term; collaboratively and strategically source and qualify new and secondary vendors to support business growth objectives; working with vendors to sign contractual agreements to mitigate risk ; implementing KPI and best practices to improve efficiency for Procurement team; Collaborating with cross function teams to meet all key dates and goals of the business; set priorities for team as well as leading, coaching and mentoring direct reports.

All Saje Team Members are responsible for contributing to Saje’s culture and maintaining a positive environment for themselves and their peers.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Lead the Procurement Hard Goods team**:lead in terms of day-to-day people management, prioritization, coaching and mentoring, as well as setting the team’s best practices, strategy, and growth plans in line with the overall company goals and needs.
- **Supplier relationship management**:Seek and establish reliable, healthy relationships with vendors or suppliers that provide quality goods at reasonable costs, and lead-times; negotiate pricing and contracts to mitigate risks; partner with suppliers on capacity planning to smooth production schedules; ensure supplier performance, volume and quality goals are met; manage performance against set KPI’s.
- **Supplier negotiations**: Lead the team to negotiate and/or in negotiations with suppliers to get the best possible pricing, lead-times, payment term, freight term, MOQs, and other commercial or legal terms in support of our business needs and objectives.
- **Strategically develop supplier roadmap**: To deliver value and meet sustainability objectives; develop policy and procedures tailored to the business to support short term and long-term goals.
- **Strategically source, qualify and audit vendors**:Collaboratively work with Sourcing Manager to strategically select suppliers based on size, strength, and geography to meet short term and long-term objectives of the business; select vendor to ensure the business receiving the greatest value of its goods or service; Initiate qualification audit to on-board new vendors; audit existing vendors regularly; identify areas for improvement and work with vendors to take all corrective actions.
- **Support Quality Assurance and Regulatory** teams with hard-goods technical documentation.
- **Stakeholder management**: Develop strong relationships with all stakeholders, cross function teams and all team members; create an environment for safety, trust, respect, and accountability; collaborate with cross function teams to achieve the common goals.
- **Collaborate with cross functional departments** to develop metrics and process improvements that are maintained throughout the year.
- Creates a team environment where all Team Members consistently experience a sense of belonging and inclusion.

**Applicant Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain or other related field
- 5+ years experience in sourcing and supply chain
- Skilled negotiator with a history of negotiating favourable commercial terms and conditions
- Proven ability to influence Executive Team
- Demonstrated leadership skills and employee development experience
- SCMP, CSCP designation or equivalent (optional)
- Intermediate to master in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Power Point), including Excel Pivot Tables, managing complex formulas and data
- Knowledge of BI apps (e.g. Power BI), BOM and ERP/MRP systems and processes
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics considered an asset
- Fluency in Chinese language (Mandarin, Cantonese) considered an asset

**Key Relationships**:
Reporting to the Director, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement