Bilingual Senior Sourcing Specialist (Finance) – David Aplin Group

Title of the Job: Bilingual Senior Sourcing Specialist (Finance)

Location: Toronto, ON – Montreal, QC

Job Description: Join a top employer and advance your career. Aplin has partnered with a large corporation to hire a Senior Sourcing Specialist. This role will involve working collaboratively with components, teams across our clients business and external third parties. A solid background in category management and leading mildly complex contracts and categories for a large organization to help our business thrive in a dynamic and rapidly changing broadcast and media environment.Benefits & Perks:

• Compensation: Up to $95,000
• 4 weeks Vacation
• Hybrid work schedule
• 18-month Contract
• Location: Toronto or Montreal

Responsibilities:

• Operationally collaborate and contribute with your team and the Director of Sourcing to develop and deliver “best in class” strategic sourcing and leverage the clients position to its benefit. The candidate will bring execution of strategies for the categories falling under his / her responsibilities.
• Execute strategic sourcing and lead assigned activities for process improvement, systems, etc. and apply best practices.
• Support the communication of the vision within the team and with Components, while building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Contribute to enhancing the tools and work with the team
• Contribute to activities on category strategies and associated plans.
• Partner effectively with internal business units.
• Maintain a holistic view of the ongoing and upcoming projects.
• Consolidate the purchasing volume through different components.
• Focus on value creation through savings, cost avoidance, operational efficiencies, increased value for money.
• Actively increase spend under management creating additional value creation opportunities.
• Contribute to the efforts to identify incremental cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Contribute, as required, with the development of internal dashboards, benchmarks and scorecards.
• Ensure quality of service from suppliers and function is aligned with corporate expectations (SLAs; key KPIs) and adheres to and reinforces corporate policies.
• Communicate with stakeholders across corporate service lines, maintaining strong internal relationships.
• Leverage spend analysis related data to synthesize information in an understandable manner, in order to facilitate Management and Executive decision making process.
• Execute RFx sourcing projects as required, including Reverse auction and public tendering.
• Ensure support and monitor compliance of corporate contracts by business units.
• Assess vendors’ performance and address SLA issues and non-compliance with contracts , and make appropriate recommendations.
• Monitor and communicate the status of contracts and the need to renew agreements across the portfolio of vendor relationships.

Qualifications:

• 4 years+ sourcing experience
• Bachelor Degree , MBA or Master in related field an asset.
• SCMA (PMAC) certification (SCMP or CPP) or equivalent would be considered an asset.
• Experience in strategic sourcing and procurement is essential.
• Good legal and contract drafting abilities.
• Team player at his/her levels to collaborate with components, and sourcing team.
• General business skills, business acumen and negotiation savvy.
• General knowledge of finance and/or accounting, risk management, etc.
• Ability to understand the Corporation culture and how to best communicate procurement’s value to it.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and best practices.
• Strategic mindset and problem-solving skills.
• The ideal candidate will be bilingual (French and English) at a proficient level for commercial negotiation and contract drafting.
• Familiar with and capable of using various software packages, ERP software, in delivering corporate reports and projects would be considered an asset.
• Knowledge of Crown Corporations and government would be considered an asset.

Aplin is an award-winning employment agency dedicated to connecting diverse, top-tier talent with exceptional organizations across North America. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and there are no fees to apply for our jobs or to engage with our recruiters in finding a new career. Companies hire us to help them expand and diversify their teams. All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada, which includes having the appropriate documentation, such as a work permit.

Company Name: David Aplin Group

Salary: $95000 per year

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