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This role involves sourcing and purchasing goods and services in line with the budget for each department. The role involves close control of purchasing budgets, negotiation with suppliers, ensuring delivery schedules are met and may be required to prepare ongoing reports for cost transparency. Position: Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing ...

Shift: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Location: Toronto, ON (candidate must be based in Ontario) 4 days onsite (at least 1 of the 4 days must be on a Monday or Friday) and 1 day remote Advantages This position offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative and supportive team environment. The role will provide challenges and growth opportunities within a global organization. Responsibilities Decision Evaluation and Contract Execution  Identifies and analyzes the strategic issues and challenges related to various supplier strategies and recommends the best solution to senior management.  Analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify and analyze strategic issues, business unit opportunities, service levels, consolidate critical and non-critical requirements across different suppliers.  Effectively prepare, coordinate and conduct all complex supplier negotiations.  Develop methodologies to capture savings as well as manage value driven negotiations.  Deliver on cost reduction commitments through the identification, development and execution of strategic souring initiatives.  Negotiate complex supplier contracts, supports business groups in managing supplier contracts and relationships and drafts and makes necessary amendments to current contracts as necessary. Relationship Management  Build effective and strong relationships with key partners and stakeholders (including executive level) by understanding key needs and dynamics across stakeholder groups, decision makers and influencers.  Develop and maintain trusted relationships with key suppliers, negotiating pricing/and or quality of service while minimizing risk.  Act as a trusted business partner to influence and lead key sponsors and stakeholders through the sourcing process, to gain buy-in, overcome challenges and deliver on high priority, high-risk, complex initiatives.  Secures stakeholder support for complex decisions (e.g. unpopular, high-risk, contentious).  Uses networking and market intelligence to forge and maintain key strategic relationships. Sourcing Strategy Development & Opportunity Assessment  Develop strategic sourcing strategies for specific business units executing purchases through the use of industry analysis, business knowledge, competitive analysis and sourcing expertise.  Create plans to identify or recommend alternative suppliers against the sourcing execution plan, to maximize service levels and procurement activities and create alignment to long-term business strategies.  Coordinate and manage external research activities to provide assessment of supply market conditions and to help address issues and challenges associated with the organizations supply chain.  Identify, research and prioritize possible sourcing opportunities through internal spend analysis, knowledge of business unit, potential savings and/or business need.  Identify new purchasing opportunities and savings strategies through internal spend analysis to ensure sourcing plans meet savings objectives with support from each business unit.  Gather internal and external data, and analyze the data to identify and consolidate both supplier and business unit opportunities and requirements across different suppliers.  Identify and analyze strategic issues business unit opportunities, service levels, consolidate critical and non-critical requirements across different suppliers. Governance, Risk and Controls  Manage and lead identified sourcing team through all sourcing activities including RFP development and analysis.  Develops and implements global efficiencies, standardized tools, practices and procedures, RFP, new supplier and decision-making evaluations.  Support KPI and metric reporting to key partners and decision makers to drive insights into business trends and opportunities and measure results.  Analyzes complex procurement challenges and assist in developing solutions to best meet business needs.  Support development and adherence to financial, fraud-prevention and risk management controls through the Procurement process. Leadership  Lead enterprise and business unit procurement initiatives  Provide mentoring, coaching to help develop skills and abilities of team members to optimize future job performance.  Ensure that employees understand visions, as well as support and reinforce targeted behaviours that align to Leadership Model. Qualifications Must-have Skills/Experiences and/or Education, certifications, qualifications, designations: 10-15 years of procurement sourcing experience, not purchasing experience (No flexibility for less)* Previous technology sourcing (5 years minimum experience)* Leads negotiations for complex deals with a total contract value $5Million or more* Contract authoring and editing* Experience in leading and supporting cross functional stakeholder interactions/relationships* Post-secondary education in Finance, Related Purchasing field or Procurement Designation* Nice-to-have: Nice to have: proven experience sourcing and negotiating deals with AI providers Understanding of procurement law and/or regulations Business and Financial Acumen Strong Negotiation skills Strong analytical skills Achieving financial targets (individual targets of $5MM savings, and team targets of $25MM) Ivalua Soft Skills: Strong Communication (verbal and written) Impact and Influence Service Oriented Focus (Building Partnerships) Business and Financial Insight Summary If you are a highly skilled and experienced sourcing professional with a passion for technology and a proven track record of success, we encourage you to apply. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading global organization and make a significant contribution to their procurement function.