Senior Strategic Buyer supporting end-to-end negotiations, evaluation, and purchasing for materials and services capital projects

Senior Strategic Buyer supporting end-to-end negotiations, evaluation, and purchasing for materials and services capital projects

Our enterprise Oil and Gas industry client is seeking a Senior Strategic Buyer supporting end-to-end negotiations, evaluation, and purchasing for materials and services capital projects.

Duration: 1-year initial contract with a possibility of extension

Working model: 4 days onsite within downtown Calgary

Must-haves:

• 8+ years of progressive Strategic Buying experience for both materials and services procurement
• Midstream industry experience, or experience in an Owner/Operator environment
• Demonstrated commercial acumen including experience conducting RFQ/RFP processes, bid evaluation, supplier negotiations, commercial analysis, and supplier selection recommendations
• Experience with Oracle Fusion (open to comparable ERP/procurement platforms)

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage higher-complexity requisitions and purchase orders requiring formal RFx events, tactical RFQs, supplier negotiations, single/sole-source justification, new supplier evaluation, and/or capital-project-related purchasing support.
• Determine the appropriate buying channel and sourcing approach for assigned requests, including operational buy, strategic buy, contract call-off, catalog/BPA utilization, or escalation to Contract Management where a new contract or amendment is required.
• Lead supplier identification, market scans, pricing comparisons, bid analysis, negotiation support, and supplier selection activities for goods and services that exceed operational buying complexity thresholds.
• Develop and use total cost of ownership analysis, market intelligence, historical pricing, supplier performance information, and demand context to make commercially sound sourcing recommendations.
• Maintain accurate sourcing and procurement documentation, ensuring compliance with company policies and governance requirements, and support audit activities.
• Partner with Category Management to execute category strategies, improve preferred supplier utilization, identify sourcing opportunities, and reduce unmanaged or non-preferred supplier spend.
• Coordinate with Contract Management when contract terms, commercial exceptions, amendments, or new agreements are required prior to supplier engagement.
• Review approved requisitions for completeness, commercial risk, existing contract/BPA coverage, preferred supplier availability, price reasonableness, and compliance with procurement standards before PO creation.
• Create, modify, dispatch, and manage purchase orders and change orders in accordance with established approval workflows and Financial Approval Authority.

Our enterprise Oil and Gas industry client is seeking a Senior Strategic Buyer supporting end-to-end negotiations, evaluation, and purchasing for materials and services capital projects.

Duration: 1-year initial contract with a possibility of extension

Working model: 4 days onsite within downtown Calgary

Must-haves:

• 8+ years of progressive Strategic Buying experience for both materials and services procurement
• Midstream industry experience, or experience in an Owner/Operator environment
• Demonstrated commercial acumen including experience conducting RFQ/RFP processes, bid evaluation, supplier negotiations, commercial analysis, and supplier selection recommendations
• Experience with Oracle Fusion (open to comparable ERP/procurement platforms)

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage higher-complexity requisitions and purchase orders requiring formal RFx events, tactical RFQs, supplier negotiations, single/sole-source justification, new supplier evaluation, and/or capital-project-related purchasing support.
• Determine the appropriate buying channel and sourcing approach for assigned requests, including operational buy, strategic buy, contract call-off, catalog/BPA utilization, or escalation to Contract Management where a new contract or amendment is required.
• Lead supplier identification, market scans, pricing comparisons, bid analysis, negotiation support, and supplier selection activities for goods and services that exceed operational buying complexity thresholds.
• Develop and use total cost of ownership analysis, market intelligence, historical pricing, supplier performance information, and demand context to make commercially sound sourcing recommendations.
• Maintain accurate sourcing and procurement documentation, ensuring compliance with company policies and governance requirements, and support audit activities.
• Partner with Category Management to execute category strategies, improve preferred supplier utilization, identify sourcing opportuniti