Project Procurement Lead

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is **ATS Life Sciences** - We don’t follow the trends. We set them

Are you interested in being part of a team that makes a difference? Join our growing **ATS Life Sciences Systems** team a division of ATS Corporation, a publicly traded global enterprise with a proud history, we are helping advance the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. Within Life Sciences Systems, what we do matters - we custom design, build and service critical automated solutions for medical device and pharmaceutical companies. We are dedicated to assisting our customers in improving the quality of life for people around the world. When there is no room for error, and product failure is not an option, leading life sciences companies trust us to resolve their production challenges.

ROLE SUMMARY:
Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, the Project Procurement Lead will be the technical liaison between suppliers, Designers and Supply Chain to achieve project and departmental goals, objectives, and best practices.

Responsibilities include:

- Track, monitor and maintain purchase order deliveries to drive on-time delivery to schedules.
- Communicate with, evaluate, and approve suppliers to ascertain their ability to meet company requirements, goals, and objectives.
- Negotiate prices, discounts, and delivery arrangements with suppliers.
- Perform on-going reviews of product, service, equipment, and expense usage to identify new opportunities for cost savings.
- Effective use of historical and other benchmarking data to ensure competitive pricing.
- Manage cost containment, product standardization, supplier consolidation and benchmarking reports, and other supply chain management strategies that maximize value while ensuring that ATS standards are maintained or enhanced.
- Act as a key resource for ATS staff by assisting in the research and development of products, service and equipment alternatives, initiation and follow-up of evaluations, requests for quotation and other day to day procurement.
- Maintain favorable Terms and Conditions for ATS
- Maintain a focus on vendor capacities to enable low-cost design and facilitate a collaborative working relationship between Designers and Suppliers.
- As a key member of new product design teams, advise the project regarding supplier capabilities to achieve lowest cost compliant solutions.
- Understand the product from initial design and provide early input regarding ease and cost of supply.
- Engage suppliers early in the project life to gain their appropriate input into product solutions.
- Support the development of engineering design methodology from a Supply Chain perspective to ensure successful execution through the supply chain.
- Maintain a preferred parts list and use it to drive selection of common parts and design features across multiple projects.
- Devise and implement a project procurement plan.
- Ensure that project parts delivery needs are met in a timely manner through all project phases.
- Maintain regular product material cost metrics for each project and achieve project cost requirements.

**Qualifications**:
**Education**:
A post-secondary diploma or degree in materials management or equivalent. Supply Chain Canada (or equivalent) designation is an asset. PMP training or certification is an asset. Manufacturing or Engineering education or experience is an asset.

**Experience**:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Purchasing (or equivalent)
- Experience in a custom manufacturing environment is an asset.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office software including Excel - pivot tables & VLOOKUP + Power Point - presentations
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings is an asset.
- Proven organizational and negotiation skills.
- Excellent oral, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated problem solving and continuous improvement skills
- Demonstrated ability to interact in a team environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives on a cross functional team
- Demonstrated strong analytical, organizational, exercise sound judgment and work without direct supervision in a team environment.
- Utilize proven project management skills.
- Highly motivated, customer-focused team player and innovator.
- If you're excited about this role, but do not meet all the qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply_

Why YOU should join our **ATS Life Sciences Systems** team:
**We value our PEOPLE** - The foundation of a great company is having the best team which is why we continuously work to develop, engage, empower and energize our people. The best people want to work with the best team - the best teams are diverse and inclusive teams.

**What we do MATTERS** - our Life Sciences projects contribute to improving the lives of people around the world ATS has made a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030

**INNOVATION and PROBLEM SOLVING is at our core -** Our pursuit of continuous improvement in eve