Manager, Procurement

**Position Title: Manager, Procurement**

**Position Type: Full-Time**

**Location: Mississauga, ON**

**Job Grade: 7**

**Salary Range: $102,102.52 - $138,660.70/year**

**Hours of work: 36.25 hr/week**

**Reporting to: Vice President, Corporate Services**

**This posting is applicable to: Internal/External Applicants**

**Skilled Trades Ontario (STO) is a Crown agency **responsible for skilled trades certification in Ontario, which includes:

- **Establishing** **apprenticeship programs, **including training standards, curriculum standards and certification exams.
- **Assessing** **experience** **and qualifications** of individuals who have not completed an apprenticeship program in Ontario.
- **Issuing** **Certificates of Qualification** in all trades with certifying exams.
- **Renewing** **Certificates of Qualification** in compulsory trades.
- **Maintaining** **a Public Register** of people authorized to work in compulsory trades.
- **Conducting research** in relation to apprenticeship and the trades.

The Manager, Procurement reports to the Vice President, Corporate Services in the Corporate ServicesDepartment. This position is responsible for collaboration on all business plans for strategic sourcing. Providing support to the leadership team as the procurement point of contact, on various strategic and operational matters related to business planning, requirements and initiatives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Maintain an organizational view of planned and unplanned procurement activities to develop an organizational strategy.
- Identify opportunities for consolidation and efficiencies that take into account organizational goals and objectives.
- Develop innovative procurement solutions to complex engagements in compliance with policies and directives to support the organization.
- Creating and managing agreements for the provision of specific products or services in line with the business needs of STO.
- Responsible for developing and implementing category sourcing strategies.
- Lead all procurement matters.
- Provide presentation/briefings to senior leadership, executive leadership team and or Board of Governors.
- Lead and facilitate regular planning and status update meetings.
- Develop, implement, and provide ongoing support to the organization on processes and policies.
- Establish and maintain effective communication processes with internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify procurement opportunities for enhancement.
- Identify and address blockers, inefficiencies and other issues to the delivery of effective procurement services at STO.
- Establish procurement operational processes, guidelines, standards and best practices for procurement through proactive problem solving and issues management.
- Plan, manage and control the activities of section which includes annual planning of projects and priorities, identifying resource requirements, allocating work, recruiting, establishing performance objectives, conducting performance reviews, and providing guidance and feedback to staff.
- Building negotiation plans and executing supplier agreement process, managing negotiations or auction process as appropriate.
- Develop strategies and provide education where required to minimize compliance risks.
- Maintain up to date knowledge and awareness of procurement trends.
- Assist STO with enhancing the delivery of procurement services.
- Collaborate with external parties including ministries and other public sector agencies and entities.
- Prioritization and reprioritization of initiatives across departments, divisions, branches and clusters to ensure objectives are met.
- Develop and maintain reports on active/planned procurements and existing contracts.
- Establishing the best value for money solutions, and achieving maximum cost saving potential, sourcing, negotiation, agreement award and agreement management.
- Build negotiation plans and executing supplier agreement process, managing negotiations or auction process as appropriate.
- Develop and oversee RFPs and review responses. Using agreed standard framework for RFx documents evaluation and for short listed suppliers as appropriate and tailoring if appropriate in association with Legal Services team.
- Implement supplier relationship and performance management for the categories concerned, managing agreements to ensure that service levels and price competitiveness are maintained or enhanced.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Business/Commerce with a specialization (or post grad) in Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing or Procurement, or equivalent experience.
- 4-8 years’ experience in strategic sourcing and supplier management.
- Certification in Procurement / Supply Chain Management.
- Demonstrated experience in managing or supervising a team.
- Experience in negotiations and communication.
- Experience in data collection and analysis.
- Ability to make decisions and work with numbers.
- Experience work