Location
Ottawa, ON | Canada
Job description
Job Description
The Officer, Purchasing is responsible and accountable for leading, planning, conducting and controlling all aspects of procurement initiatives and activities under their signing authority and ensures these activities are in compliance with legal requirements.
Job Responsibilities
Below are the main job requirements and responsibilities for the Officer, Purchasing.
- Initiates and conducts planning with client groups, leads cross-functional teams in the supplier sourcing/contracting process and prepares and issues NAFTA and RFP/RFQ documents.
- Chairs supplier clarification meetings, co-ordinates clarification responses, and ensures evaluation criteria are complete and valid.
- Leads and conducts proposal evaluation, evaluates and analyzes complex corporate requirements to ensure lowest life cycle costs are met.
- Plans and prepares purchasing strategy for negotiations by analyzing the general economic and financial information available and summarizes complex discussions into appropriate mathematical model.
- Conducts negotiations for the acquisition of goods and/or services, negotiating cost-effective solutions, mitigating risks, preparing, evaluating and negotiating contract terms, conditions and pricing within strict timeframes and developing contracts and related support documentation ensuring fully defined conditions.
Job Responsibilities (continued)
- Seeks input/support from client group and budget holder to ensure mutual understanding and agreement with negotiation approach and corporate targets.
- Chairs bidder conferences; implements corporate policies, procedures and quality control standards, prepares business briefings to respond to management, supplier debriefings and potential legal challenges from suppliers; awards contract to successful supplier/contractor and notifies the unsuccessful, and develops contract documents.
- Ensures supplier performance and all elements of the goods and/or services are delivered in accordance with the statement of requirements and/or specifications.
- Monitors contract deliverables, ensure that all elements of the goods or services are delivered in accordance with the scope of work, identifies and resolves issues, between the supplier and the clients and terminates contracts for non-compliance of contractual obligations.
- Educates and interprets procurement policies and procedures to clients, identifies and recommends changes, negotiates procurement timelines with clients and suppliers, analyzes and identifies opportunities to increase efficiencies, improve service and reduce costs
Qualifications
Education
A University degree in a relevant discipline such as Commerce, Finance, Purchasing or Engineering with a satisfactory business component OR a college degree in Purchasing or Supply Chain Management.
Note: For candidates who do not possess the selection standards prescribed, an equivalent combination of education, training and related work experience may be considered
Experience
- 2-5 years of related work experience is required.
Other Candidate Requirements
- Experience with IT procurement and Public Procurement would be an asset
- PMAC CSCMP certification or working toward certification would be an asset.
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