Intermediate Procurement Business Partner

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full-time**Location(s)**: SK-Rgna-Regina**Salary Range**: $30.842-$38.650 Hourly**Why eHealth?**
- We may be biased, but eHealth Saskatchewan is the place to be right now As the result of a province-wide consolidation of IT services in the health care sector, we have seen substantial growth in our organization. This gives our people a unique and rare opportunity to truly build, improve, and leave their mark on a growing organization.- We are a Treasury Board Crown Corporation that focuses on digital technologies to enable, support, and enhance high quality health services across the entire province. There is no greater job satisfaction than knowing the work you do is directly related to saving a life or bringing a new one into the world. Although we may not be front-facing patient care, we have a huge role in delivering IT systems and supporting health care throughout Saskatchewan for the best possible care to patients. Programs range from primary care to acute care, and include laboratories, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics.- Our vision is “Connected healthcare, accessible to everyone, everywhere” with a mission to “Collaborate to transform healthcare through the use of information and innovative technology”. It is a complex environment, constantly evolving and quick to change as we live our values of excellence, integrity, teamwork, courage, resilience and collaboration.**About the Role**-
- This is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic, engaging, and fun team delivering strategic procurement services to an exciting sector. The job is fast paced, challenging, and rewarding**Typical Daily Duties**
- Coordinate the procurement of goods and services from beginning to end. This includes needs identification, market research, developing competition documents, facilitating the evaluation of bids, as well as awarding and negotiating contracts.
- Manage contract the contract lifecycle, including renewals, amendments, terminations, and performance in conjunction with partners and program areas.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers.
- Provide expert advice and assistance to eHealth staff and health system partners on effective procurement strategies and compliance with trade agreements and policies.
- Conduct analysis and develop reporting materials on procurement and contract performance.
- Support the implementation and maintenance of procurement and contracting policies.
- Develop relationships and liaise with senior ministry, agency, and Crown Corporation officials to facilitate procurement processes.
- Ensure that all procurement-related documentation is accurate, complete, and filed appropriately.
- Mentor and coach other procurement professionals in the organization.

**What are we looking for?**
- SCMP Designation is an asset.
- Strong knowledge of public procurement best practices, trade agreements and contract law.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

**Competencies**:
**Communication**:

- Ability to verbally and/or in writing explain administrative matters/ policies/ procedures/ regulatory matters at a level appropriate to the audience.

**Problem Solving**:

- Ability to (identify/ design/ select/ implement/ develop/ contribute to the development of) new ideas, sound procurement planning and management practices, and approaches that will improve work/ processes and systems

**Interpersonal**:

- Ability to influence, persuade or convince others in order to achieve understanding and reach agreement.
- Ability to calmly listen, assess and clarify problems and respond with options to clients/ co-workers/ vendors/ stakeholders/ consumers/ public who may be angry/ confused/ upset/ uncooperative.

**Teamwork/Independence**:

- Ability to work independently and work cooperatively with others in a team environment to establish, build and maintain positive working relationships and to ensure deadlines, goals and objectives are met.

**Organizational**:

- Ability to plan, prioritize and organize a large volume of tasks and projects for self and/or others taking into consideration frequent interruptions and conflicting and changing priorities to meet strict deadlines.

**Analytical**:

- Ability to review, interpret, evaluate information and systems/ operational data/ controls in order to form conclusions and/or make recommendations on validity/ usefulness/ correctness/ compliance within established policies, procedures, guidelines, agreements and/or legislation

**Technical**:

- Ability to input, edit, update, retrieve, maintain, format and transmit data, create and generate queries, reports and documents utilizing word processing, databases, spreadsheets, communications and other software packages with speed and accuracy-
- If you are looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself and showcase your abilities, we would love to