Manager Procurement Services

Job requisition number

039326

Job location

Richmond

Full-time / part-time

Full-time

Salary

$116,186 - $141,166 / annually

Expected Salary Range

Posting period

From 04/15/2025 to 05/05/2025

Overview

Are you a procurement professional with experience in contract management and leading a purchasing team? We are looking for a **Manager, Procurement Services** to provide leadership to a team responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of goods and services and implementation of purchasing policies and programs to our internal clients I&T and Claims.

In this role, you’ll effectively manage general procurement services and support areas that require third party provider or supplier contractual agreements.

**How you’ll make a difference**:You’ll help protect the financial integrity of B.C.’s workers’ compensation system, ensuring we serve British Columbians now and in the future.

**Where you’ll work**

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely, and in our offices based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you will work primarily from our Richmond Office with some flexibility to work from your home in B.C.

What you'll do
- Ensure that purchasing policies, procedures, and standards are appropriately implemented and that funds for the procurement of goods and services are properly tendered
- Promote a customer-focused and service-oriented approach in providing services to external and internal customers
- Lead your team to maintain high levels of service and achieve objectives by creating a supportive working environment and promoting effective communication and teamwork
- Develop and implement operational objectives and action plans, monitor quality and quantity of work, and ensure adequate service levels and operating standards are maintained
- Facilitate the creation and development of competitive processes and third party provider/supplier contract agreements and manage processes and communication involving agreements with service providers and suppliers
- Work with clients to offer creative business solutions

Is this a good fit for you?

We’re looking for someone who can:

- Think strategically and execute an action plan to achieve objectives
- Create a work environment that encourages and supports the development and success of individuals on your team, enabling them to contribute to the team and reach their maximum potential
- Use well-developed verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present information, influence others, build relationships, and work collaboratively
- Do sourcing and contracting in the I&T space

**Your background and experience**
- A **university** **degree**in business administration, economics, supply chain management, or other relevant field of study
- A **minimum of 5 years of management experience** in a computerized supply chain/purchasing environment with experience in competitive bidding and contract management
- Experience in** IT procurement within the public sector**is strongly preferred
- Professional certification from a recognized and accredited supply management associate or institute is an asset
- Working knowledge of business management principles and practices
- Supervisory experience in a unionized environment is an asset

We’ll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**Important to know**

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

- Successfully meet two different criminal record clearances, one of which meets the legal requirements under the Criminal Records Review Act to work with children and/or vulnerable adults
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada

WorkSafeBC’s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy is suspended effective January 9, 2023; however, we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

**Who we are**

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

**What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?**

It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity