Advanced Procurement Specialist

**Advanced Procurement Specialist**

**ABOUT COOLIT SYSTEMS INC.**

Founded in Calgary, Alberta in 2001, CoolIT Systems is the leading Direct Liquid Cooling technology provider for data centers, supercomputers, and desktop computers. We design and manufacture solutions used by the largest tech companies globally.

Recognized as one of “The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2023” by Financial Times and honored with the Deloitte Fast 50 Clean Technology award in 2022, as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 distinction in both 2021 and 2022, CoolIT's rapid growth is capturing global attention.

As demand for generative AI, high performance computing and cloud solutions rapidly expands, there has never been a more exciting time to join our team.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**:
**Role**:
We are seeking a talented Advanced Procurement Specialist to join our Supply Chain Management team. We are looking for someone with strong program management skills and exceptional attention to detail. This role will report to the Procurement Manager and will be integral to achieving CIT’s goals for successful new project introductions (NPI).

**Responsibilities**:
The Advanced Procurement Specialist focuses on ensuring consistent material readiness at project level under CIT’s NPI (new project introduction) model. Ensure selecting suppliers by strategic sourcing specialist that enable meeting or exceeding NPI’s project objectives such as project budget, timeline milestones, quality, engineering/technical, commercial, capacity, and capability requirements. The role requires excellent collaboration, organization, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and delivering in a fast-paced project and work culture. Understanding and alignment to commodity-specific sourcing strategies. Interpersonal and problem-solving skills commonly used to gather information from different departments to conduct the work required.
- In collaboration and supported by other SCM department functional areas (i.e., strategic sourcing, sustaining procurement, etc.) select and communicate the suppliers, for entire BOM, NPI’s project specific.
- Actively engage and support NPI project-specific core-team activities (strong cross-functional alignment and collaboration). Flexibility and adaptability to changing needs and priorities is a core skill.
- Establish and maintain relationships both internally and externally.
- Understanding and alignment to commodity-specific approved strategies. At NPI project-level advocates, aligns, and reinforces CIT’s “in region for region” goals and objectives.
- Create and manage POs (e.g., material, tooling, NRE, etc.) supporting the various project-specific phases (i.e., EVT, DVT, and PVT).
- Active participant in the Supplier Performance Management process including supplier scorecards, cost of poor performance, cost recovery activities.

**WHO YOU ARE**:
**Basic Qualifications**:

- Post secondary in Supply Chain Management, Business, and/or Engineering.
- Language: English, native or full professional proficiency.
- Keep up commitments on time; Be Proactive and question logically.
- Able to interpret and understand part drawings and specifications.
- Critical thinking and quantitative analysis.
- Prioritize work and timely delivery.
- People skills and ability to build and improve trusting relationships.
- Ability to work in a fast environment and rapidly adapt to evolving priorities.

**Preferred** **Qualifications**:

- Fluency in a second language (e.g. Mandarin, Spanish) is highly desirable.

**Skills**:

- Strong program management skills.
- Attention to detail, organizational abilities, sense of urgency.

**WHY COOLIT?**

We strive to be an employer of choice and as such we believe in rewarding our employees with career and development opportunities that will maintain and strengthen our culture while aligning to our vision and values.

We are a company that is full of vibrant, innovative people who love what we do. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

- Vacation and flex days, and paid company-wide shutdown during the holiday season.
- Comprehensive benefits including Dental, Drugs, Optical, Paramedical and Health Spending. These costs are covered by CoolIT and are enacted from your first day.
- Dress for your day - in a casual yet professional environment.
- Retention rewards like “The Big Coffee Break” that reward tenure with additional vacation time and a monetary bonus.
- Employee ownership program.