Procurement Manager

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a
**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
The
**Procurement Manager** is responsible for implementing procurement strategies in close cooperation with Category Managers and Business leaders on a local level. They will manage the operational and tactical procurement of local goods and services, including: contract implementation, category strategy execution, and communicate supplier performance through procurement team. They are responsible for leading local supplier procurement efforts.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the operational and tactical Procurement of goods and services categories in accordance with category strategy, as well as applicable policies, procedures and specifications.
- Act as the point of contact between country Category Management and operations.
- Drive the realization of savings, supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements in Country, in line with regional and global strategies.
- Identify saving opportunities and initiate individual projects & initiatives at all operational levels.
- Negotiate in close coordination with Category Management for local volumes, processes, quality levels and prices.
- Tasks:_
- Identify local saving opportunities.
- Ensure global & local policies and procedures are conveyed to end users in the Procurement of goods and services.
- Initiate and support the RFx process locally as defined by category strategy.
- Align internal decision makers through focused communication.
- Approve local purchase orders for supplies, equipment and services within authorized signature limits.
- Assure compliance with applicable laws, ethical standards, policies and codes of business conduct.
- Ensure that own country executes category strategy as required and agreed. Where compliance is an issue, find and eliminate root causes.
- Measure performance through KPI’s according to existing templates.
- Ensure locally generated savings are reported as required, and according to category guidelines.
- Track achieved results.

Dimensions:
External annual spend of $80M to $100M.

Qualifications:
**Education**:

- University Degree in Business or Engineering or equivalent experience.

Experience and Skill Set:

- Minimum 5 years in procurement role (category management, sourcing, operations) with exposure to supply chain management, strategic sourcing and optimal procurement processes and standards
- Demonstrated performance in working within cross-functional teams, with requisite drive and energy to ensure that a challenging benefits and capability building agenda is successfully delivered

Technical/Functional Skills:

- Excellent computer skills, SAP
- Ability to understand the technical aspects of LafargeHolcim product lines from a procurement perspective.

Leadership & Managerial Competencies:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively/convincingly at all levels (including technical and operational) and with all functions at least in English and local language.
- Effective time management, planning and organization skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and drive tasks to completion in a fixed time-frame and in a pressured environment.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and build relationships across multiple functions.
- Ability to deal with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships.
- Superior negotiation skills.
- Proven ability in analysis and interpretation of data.
- Proven ability to identify problems quickly, make sound judgments, establish and implement solutions.

**_
As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required._**

LafargeHolcim:
As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are
**passionate**, driven by
**curiosity** and keen to
**grow**,
**learn, develop** and
**thrive** in our high-performance culture.

Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.