Procurement Leader

**About the Role**

At NFP, we strive to empower organizations and people to overcome complex challenges and uncertainties. Our passion is building strong personal relationships based on trust, transparency, and active communication so we can create the best possible work environment for our employees and deliver the best possible solutions to our clients.

This is an individual contributor role supporting the overall global procurement projects for NFP. As we continue to grow, there will be a need to add direct reports in the future.

**COVID-19 Update**: Please note in some locations we’ve activated hybrid plans. Standard operating hours generally remain intact for offices in these environments. This role is tied to our Downtown Toronto, ON office.

**What You’ll Do**
- Work with SVP Procurement to direct, define, and implement category management strategies that achieve cost savings
- Set the procurement process, policies, and guidelines, to be shared with regions/offices, including continuous improvements and operational efficiencies
- Proactively improve quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as product/services standardization and supplier consolidation
- Align regional and global organizational systems to maximize achievement of sourcing objectives and strengthen global implementation
- Set up regular cadence with key partners to review and prioritize procurement project pipeline
- Ensure procurement costs are being appropriately booked
- Direct the negotiation of highly complex, global, strategic supplier alliances encompassing multiple channel partners and multi-agency collaborations
- Evaluate and recommend strategic opportunities/initiatives to Strategic Sourcing leadership utilizing current and emerging business models; assessing short-term and long-term industry market trends.
- Assist in the management RFI/RFQ/RFPs lifecycle which includes the creation and facilitation of the entire process, through vendor evaluations and vendor selection.

**What You Bring**:

- Post-secondary education, with a focus on legal, business, accounting, or similar discipline
- Typically, 5+ years of experience in global procurement and/or category management in the financial services industry
- Strong focus on excellent client service, ability to work calmly under pressure, and go above and beyond requirements. Proven ability to influence key stakeholders in setting strategic direction and approach to implementation
- Superior negotiation skills including negotiation strategy development and successful execution of strategy
- Specific procurement experience required with MSAs, SOWs, and SLAs
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects at a time and source various, complex categories
- Excellent skills in internal and external stakeholder management including:

- Supplier management skills including the ability to develop and manage business-driven supplier C-Level executive relationships
- Ability to develop relationships with senior leaders and influence business stakeholders to adopt improved sourcing methods and process compliance.
- Analytically minded, able to visualize, conceptualize and solve problems.
- Strong attention to detail in the preparation of oral and written presentations for use in decision-making by the executive management team.
- Global Travel Required: 5-15%

**Who We Are**

NFP is a leading insurance brokerage that provides property and casualty, group benefits, retirement and individual solutions through our licensed subsidiaries and affiliates. We’re a 5x Best Places to Work award winner in Insurance, a 5-Star Brokerage award winner from Insurance Business Canada Magazine, and a recognized Elite Agency award winner. We enable client success through the expertise of over 1000 employees based in Canada and more than 6,900 employees with over 310 offices globally.

We’ve become one of the largest insurance brokerage, consulting, and wealth management firms by building enduring relationships with our clients and helping them realize their goals. NFP is the 2nd largest retirement aggregator firm (Investment News), 5th largest benefits broker by global revenue (Business Insurance), 10th largest property and casualty agency (Insurance Journal), and 12th largest global insurance broker (Best’s Review).

**What’s In It For You**

NFP’s PeopleFirst culture offers a multitude of benefits to employees and is a great place to call home.
- Annual bonus plan for all employees
- Matching RRSP plan of 5% of salary
- Referral Commission Plan
- Generous benefits plan including Health Care Spending Account starting on the first day of employment
- Full support for continuing education & internal opportunities to grow as a professional and advance career
- Reimbursement of license fees and professional membership dues
- A global team of industry leaders focused on employee retention, client growth, industry innovation, and collaboration

**Our employees are the foundat