Specialist, Strategic Sourcing

**Who are we?**

IMAX is not your everyday entertainment experience, so it’s not surprising that IMAX employees and their careers go beyond the ordinary. Our employees share a passion for quality in everything they do. Our Hollywood team are movie business insiders with years of production experience. Our technology experts are unashamedly geeky - people who can talk for hours and find color gamut and lasers riveting. Our team of consummate sales and marketing professionals are spreading the IMAX word around the world.

We offer all the benefits you would expect from a company with over 50 years of history. Yet, beyond this, we know everyone works differently and are motivated in different ways. That’s why we offer competitive pay and a wide assortment of benefits - to help you make the most of your life at work and away from it.

As the world’s leading Entertainment Technology Organization, IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies. Specializing in immersive motion picture technologies, our employees are driven by a passion to take audiences around the world to places they have only dreamed of.

Come explore IMAX - where innovation, creativity and passion come together

**Required Skills**:
The primary function of this position is to develop and implement detailed commodity strategies to support IMAX product cost and manufacturing objectives. This position will source all required technologies and supplier partners while negotiating business agreements to provide IMAX with long term cost stability, supply continuity and best overall supplier value.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop, implement and maintain commodity supply chain strategies to achieve IMAX cost and business objectives
- Source, evaluate and qualify world class suppliers to fulfill IMAX’s material requirements
- Develop and negotiate supplier agreements including, but not limited to, letter agreements, development agreements and master supply agreements
- Develop and maintain effective business relationships with all supplier partners
- Work closely with engineering and R&D to identify potential new technology requirements
- Support all new product development activities
- Provide leadership and support internally to Procurement Specialists
- Develop a deep understanding of the supply base and it’s technologies
- Keep abreast of current and emerging technologies as well as their business implications
- Develop and implement cost reduction strategies to achieve IMAX cost of good targets
- Work closely with the supplier quality team to ensure all supplier meet IMAX quality expectations
- Create Purchase Orders to support manufacturing schedules, MRP demand and manual Purchase Requisitions
- Create and monitor supplier KPI’s to ensure Supplier Performance (Cost, Delivery, Quality)
- Ensure ERP system information is accurate (e.g. leadtimes & delivery)

**Requirements/Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary diploma or degree in a related discipline (materials management, supply chain management or business).
- Industry certifications considered an asset (CSCMP, CPIM, CSCP, CCLP, etc.)
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive supply chain management experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience developing supply chain strategies, including supplier sourcing
- Experience developing and negotiating supplier agreements
- Excellent negotiation skills a must
- MRP/ERP experience required (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
- Intermediate level skills required in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- A strong team-player with experience working in cross-functional teams is preferred
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills
- Committed to continuous improvement within the supply chain
- The ability to multitask and identify true priority of those tasks

Required Experience
**Our Commitment to you**:
At IMAX you'll be part of a culture built on respect - one that recognizes the unique talents of everyone on the team. We're proud of the differences that make us all unique and we support unity, acceptance and equal rights for all. Diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a global company.

IMAX is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.