CAE Inc

Procurement Sourcing, Category Specialist

CAE Inc • $90K — $110K *
Saint-laurent, QC H4K 1H9In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, law, or relevant discipline
  • 7+ years in Product Technology Procurement
  • Experience in Global IT Infrastructure and Cloud services procurement
  • Proven negotiation skills and experience leading vendor selections
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel for data analysis

Responsibilities

  • Serve as GPSM Advisor to business units
  • Exhibit strategic thinking, managing executive-level stakeholder interactions
  • Develop and oversee global category strategies with detailed metrics
  • Facilitate vendor and stakeholder relationship management aligned with business goals
  • Lead and co-execute strategic sourcing projects from planning to implementation
  • Create analytical models for data-driven sourcing decisions
  • Monitor industry trends and integrate insights into category strategies

Benefits

  • Group Insurance
  • Telemedicine Employee and Family Assistance Program
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Group RRSP
  • CAE Pension Plan/Defined Benefit Plan
  • Sabbatical Leave
  • Flex Time
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
Full Job Description
This is an individual contributor role where you will drive high complexity strategic sourcing projects, initiatives, process optimization, team coaching/support and collaboration. The role will dedicate approximately 60% of its scope to Category Specialist responsibilities, including full ownership of assigned global category strategies, category spend, vendor and stakeholder relationship management, strategic market and technology trend analysis, category rationalization, and savings target delivery. The role will also dedicate approximately 40% to the ownership of delivery and co-execution of Strategic Sourcing Projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Act as a GPSM Advisor to the business
  • Demonstrate a strategic business mindset, establish an executive-level presence, and balance multiple stakeholder interests simultaneously
  • Own and maintain the full global strategy for assigned categories, including category vision, spend and demand baselines, supplier landscape, stakeholder map, market intelligence, technology trends, risk profile, rationalization roadmap, savings pipeline, cross-category synergies, and a multi-year opportunity pipeline
  • Act as the category owner for vendor and stakeholder relationship management, ensuring category decisions are aligned with business priorities, technology roadmaps, supplier performance, and long-term strategic plans
  • Own end-to-end delivery and co-execute category-aligned sourcing projects with the sourcing team, which will lead the primary execution activities. Ensure projects remain aligned with business priorities, market and technology trends, the current and future technology stack, savings targets, and governance requirements - from opportunity identification and pipeline planning through negotiation, award, implementation, savings capture, and post-award governance
  • Build and maintain complex analysis models to enable data-driven decisions on complex sourcing projects
  • Keep abreast of industry trends that impact the technology sourcing strategy through external advisory services, internal resources, and good working relationships with existing and emerging strategic vendors. Translate market and technology trends into category insights, roadmap adjustments, rationalization opportunities, and sourcing priorities
  • Participate and enforce improvement initiatives and coach junior team members


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, law, or any other relevant discipline
  • At least 7 years of relevant experience in Product Technology Procurement
  • Experience in Global IT Infrastructure, Cloud, and associated services procurement
  • Experience in negotiation and in leading vendor selection processes
  • Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with the ability analysis, market insights, industry updates, and internal analysis to support and own assigned Category Strategies, including spend visibility, vendor performance, stakeholder priorities, category rationalization opportunities, and savings targets


Preferred Qualifications
  • Passionate about process improvement and able to act as a change agent
  • Excellent Customer service skills, when dealing with the company team members at all levels of the organization. Will also work with the company's suppliers and will be required to negotiate while working in a spirit of partnership by utilizing the skills of persuasion and influence
  • Strong ethics and demonstration of inclusion in day-to-day responsibilities by respecting others' perspectives/convictions, engaging others' opinions, creating a safe environment where people, ideas, and opinions are valued within the team and with external partners. Ability to leverage diverse views to encourage innovation and challenge the status quo
  • Exceptional communication (written and verbal) in French and English
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize multiple projects
  • Agile, creative and transformative mindset
  • Can work independently


Benefits
  • Group Insurance
  • Telemedicine Employee and Family Assistance Program
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Group RRSP
  • CAE Pension Plan/Defined Benefit Plan
  • Sabbatical Leave
  • Flex Time
  • Enhanced Parental Leave


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Position Type
Regular

About CAE Inc

CAE Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies, modelling technologies and training services to airlines, aircraft manufacturers, healthcare specialists, and defense customers. CAE was founded in 1947, and has manufacturing operations and training facilities in 35 countries. CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on training solutions for defense forces across the world. CAE's Civil Aviation Training Solutions business unit provides training solutions for civil aviation organizations worldwide, including airlines, aircraft manufacturers, training centers, and aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations. CAE's Healthcare business unit designs and manufactures simulators and offers audiovisual and simulation center management services for medical schools, nursing schools, hospitals, defense forces, and other medical organizations. CAE is headquartered in Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
Learn more about CAE Inc
Size
13,000 employees
Market Cap
$6 billion
Industry
Aerospace & Defense
Founded
1947
5 Year Trend
+4.5%
NASDAQ
CAE
* Ladders Estimates

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