Position Summary...The Manager, Procurement - IF supports the execution of strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives across a variety of indirect spend categories. Working closely with Senior Managers, Directors, and key business stakeholders, this role is responsible for managing sourcing projects, conducting market and commercial analyses, supporting supplier negotiations, and facilitating contract discussions that deliver value to the organization.
The successful candidate will initially support a defined portfolio of indirect procurement categories and business partners, with opportunities to expand their scope and support additional categories as business priorities evolve. This role serves as a key partner to Senior Procurement leaders, providing analytical, project management, and sourcing expertise to support the successful execution of procurement initiatives.
What you'll do...This role demonstrates strong influencing, analytical, and relationship management skills to support stakeholders and business partners in following strategic sourcing processes, procurement policies, and best practices. The incumbent works collaboratively with Senior Managers, Directors, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand business requirements, identify sourcing opportunities, and execute procurement initiatives that drive value, mitigate risk, and improve supplier outcomes.
The role is responsible for leading and supporting the end-to-end sourcing process for assigned projects, including project identification, requirements gathering, development of sourcing strategies, supplier engagement, RFx events, proposal evaluation, commercial analysis, negotiations, supplier selection, and contract execution support. Acting as a key support resource for Senior Managers, the incumbent coordinates sourcing activities, manages project timelines, and helps ensure initiatives remain aligned with business objectives and governance requirements.
Conducting market research, supplier benchmarking, category analyses, and competitive assessments is a critical responsibility of this role. The Manager, Procurement continuously monitors market conditions, industry trends, supplier capabilities, and emerging opportunities to provide insights and recommendations that support sourcing decisions and business objectives. The role collaborates with procurement leadership and business teams to identify cost savings, operational efficiencies, supplier innovation opportunities, and other sources of value.
The incumbent supports supplier negotiations and contract discussions by developing commercial analyses, evaluating supplier proposals, assessing total cost of ownership, and preparing negotiation strategies and supporting materials. Working closely with Senior Managers and business stakeholders, the role helps facilitate negotiations that balance commercial value, supplier performance expectations, and risk management objectives.
A key aspect of the role involves building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers. The Manager, Procurement acts as a trusted business partner, facilitating discussions to gather requirements, manage sourcing activities, coordinate stakeholder input, and communicate project progress. The role works closely with Senior Managers to ensure stakeholders are informed of opportunities, risks, recommendations, and sourcing outcomes throughout the procurement lifecycle.
The position is responsible for maintaining accurate sourcing documentation and ensuring compliance with procurement policies, governance processes, and contractual obligations. The incumbent supports the sourcing approval process and works with stakeholders to ensure decisions are appropriately documented and aligned with organizational requirements.
The Manager, Procurement is also responsible for tracking sourcing project milestones, savings delivery, sourcing pipeline activity, and key performance indicators. Regular reporting, analysis, and updates are provided to Senior Managers, procurement leadership, and business stakeholders to support decision-making and ensure successful execution of procurement initiatives.
Additionally, the incumbent contributes to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance procurement processes, leverage sourcing tools and analytics, improve stakeholder engagement, and strengthen sourcing practices across the organization.
Key Qualifications- 5+ years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing sourcing events, including RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.
- Experience supporting supplier negotiations, contract discussions, and commercial evaluations.
- Strong analytical capabilities, including spend analysis, market assessments, financial analysis, and supplier proposal evaluation.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize competing demands.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional business teams, suppliers, Legal, Finance, and other support functions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and procurement or sourcing tools.
- Experience supporting indirect spend categories is considered an asset.
Leadership Expectations:
Respect the Individual:
Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
Acts with Integrity:
Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Serve our Customers:
Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.
Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
Strive for Excellence:
Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.
The pay range for this position is $91,900.00 - $126,390.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.
L'échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 91,900.00 à 126,390.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience pertinente.
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Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Age - 16 or older
Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Primary Location...1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada
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