Retail buyer Jobs in Edmonton, AB

Worley Canada Construction is a leader in industrial construction in Alberta and western Canada. Our employees enjoy exciting careers in fabrication, modularization, field installation, and professional support services for some of world's most challenging heavy-oil facilities, gas plants, power-stations and other industrial projects. As part of the global Worley team, we enjoy shared resources and opportunities with more than 20 Canadian locations and 40 countries.

Worley Canada Construction is seeking a Senior Buyer to work in our growing Procurement group in our Edmonton, AB Head Office location. Candidates must live in the Edmonton area.

Role to be responsible for ensuring that goods and services are purchased efficiently and cost-effectively. Ability to support development of any required bid proposals related to Procurement activities : make sure all area projects are compliant with Corporate Procurement Policies, project execution directives, and systems implementation. This position may require the successful candidate to travel to site when required.

Responsibilities :

• Recommend procurement, plans and strategies for strategic acquisitions of engineered packages and determine procedures within the limits of delegated authority and in accordance with company policies and procedures
• Act as a resource to internal stakeholders, providing advice and guidance on purchasing policies, procedures, and processes.
• Source and recommend suppliers in Canada and worldwide who can provide technical solutions and equipment required
• Issue and expedite all purchases to meet established service level requirements.
• Purchase goods, services, and rentals in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with suppliers and internal customers.
• Attending meetings, providing Procurement updates and reports as well as liaising with the client
• Ensure procurement activities and ensure adherence to relevant policies and procedures.
• Maintain procurement schedule updates, including preparation of project specific procedures to identify potential risks and customer needs.
• Participates in writing and review of all major proposals affecting procurement. Provides procurement consultation to customer and Company management as needed.
• Broad knowledge of business operations and ability to implement and lead organizational change effectively; Solutions are derived from interpreted and applied general information and consultation with other corporate individuals.
• The ability to effectively communicate and present complex program proposals and reports to executive level management.
• Liaise, and maintain strong working relationships, with engineering, planning, project controls, construction and quality management to ensure procurement is aligned to the project requirements. Monitor and make changes as work progresses and report to the Project Procurement Manager on progress and updates where required.
• Establish and maintain close relations and communication with the customer to ensure procurement is being executed as the contract requires and customer expects, while protecting the company's interests. Maintain and manage the
• procurement reporting to and from the customer.
• Responsible to work with the various project teams to develop scopes of work, specifications, safety and loss control, quality standards and other relevant issues.
• Responsible for negotiating terms and conditions.
• Responsible to work with key external stakeholders, client representatives and when called upon, act as a Worley Canada Construction representative in Client meetings.
• Responsible for the full cycle RFI’s, RFP’s, RFQ’s process, from facilitation, development, clarification and evaluation of competitive proposal requests to commercial bid evaluation, recommendation of award, invoice validation and closeout.
• Adhere to all corporate policies and ethics codes, i.e., Corporate Code of Conduct, Executive Directive, Procurement and Contracts, etc.
• Undertake specifically assigned projects relating to the procurement function and provide summaries, reports, business cases and recommendations on projects along with other activities as required

Qualifications :

Worley strives to be an industry leader in health, safety and environmental performance. Our vision is to achieve zero harm to people and assets, and zero environmental incidents. We select people who share our values, beliefs and commitment to this vision and who demonstrate the expected behaviors, competencies and performance associated with their perspective roles with the company.