Position Title:
Senior Procurement Specialist, Strategic Supply Management (Hybrid/Telework)
Status of Employment:
Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
Position Language Requirement:
English, French
Language Skills:
English (Reading), English (Speaking), English (Writing), French (Reading), French (Speaking), French (Writing)
Unposting Date:
2026-10-20 11:59 PM
This is a 6-Month Contract
Your Role:
This role reporting to the Sr. Director of Procurement focuses on procedural writing, document standardization, and clear operational communication, taking existing documents and creating new documents to complete a suit of Procurement Procedures, Processes, Guidelines, Templates & Directives to populate our Procurement Playbook. Working closely with procurement leadership and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), the ideal candidate excels at translating complex operational and compliance requirements into clear, user-friendly, plain-language documentation that ensures fairness, transparency, and accountability across our organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Procedure, Process, & Directive Drafting: Draft, structure, adapt and refine internal procurement policies, guides, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and governance directives for seamless operational implementation.
- Procedural Guidelines: Establish step-by-step guidance for key internal processes, including:
- Committee evaluation procedures and scoring protocols.
- Best practices for establishing and applying mandatory vs. rated requirements.
- Conflict-of-interest and fairness management guidelines.
- Supplier Guidance: Create clear, accessible instructions and templates for vendors participating in Request for Proposals (RFPs) and other competitive bids.
- Governance & Compliance Alignment: Ensure all documentation adheres to corporate governance standards, public sector compliance frameworks, and industry best practices.
- Advisory & Recommendations: Present recommendations and proposals to management.
- Bilingual Standardization: Coordinate with the translation department to ensure accurate, standardized publication of policy documents, directives, and templates in both official languages (English / French).
Key Deliverables:
- RFx & Procurement Template Suite: Review, standardize, and update all supplier-facing and internal sourcing templates (RFP, RFQ, RFI, RFSA, RFSO, etc.), ensuring consistent structure & instructions, and clear submission protocols.
- Evaluation Committee Guide: Clear instructions and guidelines to aid evaluators with some of the complexities related to scorecarding supplier response as well to ensure scoring consistency, neutrality.
- Mandatory Requirements Guidelines: Documented best practices and template guidelines on how stakeholders should define, test, and enforce qualification Pass/Fail criteria without unnecessarily restricting competition.
- RFP Supplier Instruction Set: Standardized, supplier-friendly instruction packages and response templates that guide suppliers on how to complete and submit compliant proposals effectively.
- Other Procedure & Process documentation as required
Qualifications & Competencies:
Core Skills:
- 3+ years proven experience in Process & procedure drafting, corporate governance,, organizational writing, or technical writing.
- Strong ability to digest complex operational topics and turn them into intuitive, structured documentation.
- Deep understanding of organizational controls, compliance principles, and policy implementation.
- Familiarity with AI tools and skills in prompting in order to create documents, review, align, standardize, etc. Ability to validate AI outputs for quality assurance.
- Key Strengths: Strong interpersonal skills, a solution-oriented mindset, and proficiency with data/office tools (Oracle, Google Workspace (including Gemini), MS tools) and the ability to use AI effectively.
Language & Communication:
- Fully bilingual (French and English, spoken and written).
- Exceptional plain-language writing ability, with a focus on precision and clarity.
Assets (Nice-to-Have):
- Procurement experience in drafting Statements of Work, Contract finalization, & running RFP process
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional subject matter experts, including Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Risk Management, Sustainability, and other core business functions
Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Primary Location:
Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7
Number of Openings:
1
Work Schedule:
Full time
