Procurement Lead

**Job Posting**
**Position Title: Procurement Lead**

**Employment Status: Permanent Full-time**

**Position Status: Non-Bargaining Unit position**
**Hours of Work Schedule**: 35 hours per week including some evenings and weekends

**Salary Range**: Annualized salary range of $69,000 - $80,000, commensurate on skills and experience

plus Group Benefits & HOOPP

**Hiring Manager: Chief Financial Officer, with functional reporting to Finance Manager**

**Primary Location: Pickering & Oshawa, ON (with flexibility to travel to any DCHC location as required).
**Organization Overview**

**Durham Community Health Centre (DCHC) is a registered, charitable organization that provides**
integrated, accessible, and equitable community-based primary care, wellness services, and health
education to Durham community members who face multiple barriers to their health and well-being.

DCHC also provides equity-based programs and services that focus on priority populations such as
Indigenous, Black, the 2SLGBTQI Community, Newcomers to Canada, Seniors, and Unattached patients
(i.e., those without a family doctor), to name a few. DCHC ensures Durham community members receive
not only sick care but preventive care as well.

At DCHC, we are a team-based interprofessional group of staff including physicians, nurse practitioners,
nurses, counselors, dietitians, outreach workers, medical secretaries, and other administrative staff. We
always place every client at the center of our approach to care, based on their needs. We address these
needs through integrated clinical and wellness care and health education.

It's an exciting time to be joining DCHC, while we are embarking on an energizing path with a focus on
making our biggest impact yet on the health of Durham community members by diversifying, expanding,
and leveraging our Strategic Plan, Theory of Change, Brand, Client Stories and Resources.

**Position Overview**

The Procurement Lead will be responsible for overseeing the procurement process, ensuring that all
goods and services are acquired at the best possible price and quality. You will work closely with various
departments to understand their needs and develop procurement strategies that align with the
company's goals.

The Procurement Lead will also ensure the organization's insurance policies align with organization's
needs and risks, manage renewals, negotiate terms, identify opportunities, and manage insurance
records for audit and compliance purposes.

This role will also involve negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring compliance

with all relevant regulations and policies.

**Oshawa Location Child, Youth & Family Clinic Pickering Location**
115 Grassmere Ave 1320 Airport Blvd 17-1450 Kingston Road **1-877-227-3217**
Oshawa, ON L1H 3X7 Oshawa, ON L1J 0C6 Pickering, ON L1V 1C1

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for procurement and a commitment to excellence, we would

love to hear from you.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Procurement Management _
- Assist with effectively and efficiently managing DCHC’s procurement needs for business

continuity. Ensure an updated sourcing management framework plan exists within the
organization.
- Support the Agency in removing ineffective and inefficient procurement practices at the

organization and identify opportunities for economies of scale across DCHC and provide
analysis, recommendations, and cost implications.
- Develop and manage relationships that benefit DCHC with cost efficiencies, partnerships and/or

volume-based benefits; ensure proper records management of all procurement related records
- Follow approved RFP/RFQ practices and help ensure this is practiced across the organization
- Inform staff of changes in procurement policies, processes, and any changes in vendor
- relationships.
- Process purchasing following broader public sector procurement directives and organizational
- policies.
- Provide input and guidance to staff or departments seeking to develop new vendor relationships
- for their respective operational needs with the support of the manager.
- Maintain accurate procurement records and track all procurement activities.
- Prepare and maintain purchasing files, reports, and price lists
- Expedite solutions with suppliers regarding issues like cost overruns, quality, backorders, and
- missed deliveries.
- Lead inventory counts and provide periodic reports for decision-making.
- Track, monitor, and maintain PO deliveries, coordinating changes with mínimal impact on
- operations.
- Manage and maintain inventory levels to ensure adequate supplies are available at all times.
- Implement inventory control procedures to minimize waste and excess inventory.
- Ensure appropriate employees are aware of DCHC's policies and processes as it relates to
- Procurement or Insurance.
- Support special projects or initiatives as assigned.
- Insurance Management _
- Effectively and efficiently manage DCHC's insurance needs for busi