Procurement Manager

**Procurement Manager (Canada Ops & North Atlantic Sales)**
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**Who We Are**:
Welcome to Vale in Canada. As a leader in the mining industry, our responsibility is to positively impact our people, communities, and the environment. We value our workforce and offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

With our global headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and approximately 125,000 employees in over 30 countries, Vale is constantly growing and changing. We invite you to be part of our evolution.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a **Procurement Manager **to join our **Procurement **team in **Sudbury**. This is a **permanent **position.

Reporting to the Head of Procurement and Inbound Logistics for North Atlantic, the Manager of Procurement - Canada Ops & North Atlantic Sales is responsible to lead the contracts sourcing and execution for local operations categories and sustaining capital for Sudbury-ON, Thompson-MB, Long Harbour and Voisey's Bay Operations, with a total portfolio of ~975 contracts and total value of $2.5 billons, with annual spend of ~$650M. In addition, lead tactical team to provide operational procurement support to all Canadian operations (Sudbury, Thompson, Long Harbour, Voisey's Bay, Port Colborne, Toronto, Mississauga), with a total annual transaction amount of ~60K PO's, invoices and catalogue updates. Also, lead the sale of assets, scraps, properties (including lands and buildings) as well as manage building demolition contract strategy across all Base Metals North Atlantic Operations (Sudbury, Thompson, Long Harbour, Voisey's Bay, Port Colborne, Toronto, Mississauga, US, Saskatchewan and UK), managing a portfolio over ~$50 million in potential sales annually.

Sourcing functions includes the planning, execution and control for the procurement of products and services to guide the organization, including the sourcing and execution of continuous operations contracts and sustaining capital materials and services, aim assuring the supply of items for business continuity, sustainability and growth, at the lowest total cost of ownership possible, achieving industry best practice, standards of delivery time and quality of products and services, at the same time enhancing local communities' relationship and development. Also, include lead the purchase of Natural Gas for Ontario Operations with a 5 years CAD 180M spend including product, transportation, distribution and consultancy for the purchase of this commodity.

Tactical team functions aim to provide operational procurement support to all operations in Canada, providing fast answers to issues around PO's, invoices and catalogues, providing category buyers time to focus on key strategic activities, reducing workload of operational requests. That enhances the relationship with suppliers, operations, finance and warehouse teams.

Sale of assets, scraps, properties (including lands and buildings) as well as manage building demolition contract strategy functions includes definition of sales strategy, development of new markets through market intelligence analysis, sales commercial negotiation, sales contract legal terms and conditions analysis, commercial contract management; and define strategy to reduce cost and maximize revenues for building demolitions, with focus on driving enhance sales competitiveness to increase revenues generated by scrap, assets and properties sales.

The role is of a complex nature involving managing a team of ~37 people including full time staff and contracted individuals, in different geographical locations, and a wide range of activities and different internal stakeholders in multiple geographic locations (Sudbury, Thompson, Long Harbour, Voisey's Bay, Port Colborne, Toronto, Mississauga, US, Saskatchewan and UK), including all mines, mills, refinery, smelter and processing plants, assuring the best total cost of ownership, sustainability, revenues, safety and future growth for the business.

Additionally, in this position you will
- Lead supply chain management of the categories in the portfolio, understanding the environment (Line of Business, suppliers, logistics, etc.).
- Influences/contributors to improve the efficiency of the business environment through the performance improvement of supply chain and construction of the efficient communication channel with the line of business, suppliers and communities.
- Lead the integration of activities between Vale's Global, Regional and Local Procurement teams.
- Define procurement strategies to address business needs, correctly prioritize and delivery, aiming supply assure at lowest cost of ownership possible.
- Manage suppliers in the region, country and globally, developing business relationships, with focus on key suppliers and enhance local communities' opportunities.
- Interface with local stakeholders consolidating and understanding their needs an