Director, Strategic Sourcing

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Imagine working in a place that offers great resources to help you achieve your greatest potential. At Foodbuy, our solutions strengthen supplier relationships, customize offerings, and lower purchasing and production costs. In turn, we can give our passionate employees ongoing opportunities to grow. Join us.

Why work with Foodbuy? We are a member of Compass Group Canada, the leading foodservice and support Services Company. We extend our value-driven purchasing service model to external clients who benefit from our negotiated contracts with manufacturers that support food and beverage and facility management suppliers.

Now, if you were to come on board as our Director, Strategic Sourcing, we'd ask you to do the following for us:

• Leads the negotiation and contract management of large-scale, enterprise-wide volume purchase agreements without guidance.
• Demonstrates project management expertise with the ability to carry projects from strategic planning through implementation.
• Partners with Category Development subject matter experts across multiple product categories to gain additional insights and advanced knowledge of products.
• Proactively strategizes with business and other stakeholders to understand the needs of the organization.
• Leads cross functional teams to develop meaningful requirements to ensure quality responses from suppliers.
• Researches and develops adequate sources of supply. Utilizes supply market knowledge to leverage best strategy for company. Leads cross functional supplier selection activities through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes.
• Evaluates the financial stability of potential suppliers.
• Performs required business analysis with a strategic focus on total cost of ownership.
• Provide fact-based recommendations to executive level management for constructing the best overall strategic buy decisions.
• Continuously seeks out cost savings opportunities and lead efforts to realize the savings.
• Independently develops a strategic sourcing plan based on an understanding of business goals and objectives, the supply market and benchmarking. Effectively documents, communicates and gains buy-in across the organization to ensure alignment.
• Develops & refines the procurement processes to minimize efforts and maximize benefits through compliance & specification controls.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.

Think you have what it takes to be a Director, Strategic Sourcing? We're committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here's how we'll know you will be successful:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required; MBA preferred.
• 6+ years proven management experience in Procurement/ Supply Chain/ Sourcing role with a track record of solid management behavior and results.
• Effective written & verbal communication skills
• Project Management skills / experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities among cross-functional teams.
• Proven customer focus orientation
• Proven advanced & methodical analytical skills using large data sets.
• Demonstration of critical thinking, ability to draw conclusions from financial models of various data sources and make recommendations from large and small data sets across the business at all levels.
• Proven experience in managing a P&L or budget.
• Significant experience leading and conducting negotiations for contracts with domestic & international sources across a wide portfolio of categories.
• Strong internal stakeholder management skills – capacity to listen, build trusting relationships in all levels of the organization, understand, and capture stakeholder's needs and deliver effective solutions.
• Advanced Microsoft & Word proficiency
• Up to 10% Travel Annually

Compass Group Canada is committed to nurturing a diverse workforce representative of the communities within which we operate. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.

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