Project Procurement Lead

5 months ago

Cambridge, Canada ATS Automation Full time
Job Description

Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, the Project Procurement Lead will be the technical liaison between suppliers, Designers and Supply Chain to achieve project and departmental goals, objectives, and best practices. 

 

Responsibilities include:
•    Track, monitor and maintain purchase order deliveries to drive on-time delivery to schedules. 
•    Communicate with, evaluate, and approve suppliers to ascertain their ability to meet company requirements, goals, and objectives. 
•    Negotiate prices, discounts, and delivery arrangements with suppliers. 
•    Perform on-going reviews of product, service, equipment, and expense usage to identify new opportunities for cost savings. 
•    Effective use of historical and other benchmarking data to ensure competitive pricing. 
•    Manage cost containment, product standardization, supplier consolidation and benchmarking reports, and other supply chain management strategies that maximize value while ensuring that ATS standards are maintained or enhanced. 
•    Act as a key resource for ATS staff by assisting in the research and development of products, service and equipment alternatives, initiation and follow-up of evaluations, requests for quotation and other day to day procurement. 
•    Maintain favorable Terms and Conditions for ATS 
•    Maintain a focus on vendor capacities to enable low-cost design and facilitate a collaborative working relationship between Designers and Suppliers. 
•    As a key member of new product design teams, advise the project regarding supplier capabilities to achieve lowest cost compliant solutions. 
•    Understand the product from initial design and provide early input regarding ease and cost of supply. 
•    Engage suppliers early in the project life to gain their appropriate input into product solutions. 
•    Support the development of engineering design methodology from a Supply Chain perspective to ensure successful execution through the supply chain. 
•    Maintain a preferred parts list and use it to drive selection of common parts and design features across multiple projects. 
•    Devise and implement a project procurement plan. 
•    Ensure that project parts delivery needs are met in a timely manner through all project phases. 
•    Maintain regular product material cost metrics for each project and achieve project cost requirements. 

 

Continuous Improvement:  
•    Understand the ATS Business Model (ABM) fundamentals, value drivers and concepts, and be accountable within your role to objective data analysis, reporting and driving continuous improvement 
•    Identify, lead, and complete up to medium-high complexity Continuous Improvement opportunities (e.g., Just Do It, Problem Solving, and Kaizen) using a variety of Continuous Improvement tools and become ABM Bootcamp certified no later than 18 months in the position (internal training will be provided). 
•    Lead Daily Visual Management meetings. 
 

Qualifications

Education
•    A post-secondary diploma or degree in materials management or equivalent. Supply Chain Canada (or equivalent) designation is an asset. PMP training or certification is an asset. Manufacturing or Engineering education or experience is an asset. 

 

Experience
•    Minimum 5 years’ experience in Purchasing (or equivalent) 
•    Experience in a custom manufacturing environment is an asset. 
•    Advanced knowledge of MS Office software including Excel - pivot tables & VLOOKUP + Power Point - presentations 
•    Ability to interpret engineering drawings is an asset. 
•    Proven organizational and negotiation skills. 
•    Excellent oral, interpersonal, and written communication skills. 
•    Demonstrated problem solving and continuous improvement skills 
•    Demonstrated ability to interact in a team environment. 
•    Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives on a cross functional team 
•    Demonstrated strong analytical, organizational, exercise sound judgment and work without direct supervision in a team environment. 
•    Utilize proven project management skills. 
•    Highly motivated, customer-focused team player and innovator. 
 

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