Procurement Excellence & Operations Manager

Procurement Excellence & Operations Manager

Mississauga

Hybrid (2 days in office)

1-Year Contract

As a Procurement Excellence and Operations Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will bring structured thinking, facilitation, execution, and focus to procurement practices, processes, and solutions including automation and digital improvements.

You will provide oversight, coordination, support, and continuous improvements for our day-to-day procurement operations, in line with the Delivery chapter’s visions.

You will work closely with procurement, IT, and other relevant colleagues to align on needs, opportunity identification, and priority to develop, enhance, or deploy enabling services and solutions to our internal customers.

Responsibilities :

• Act as a domain knowledge and subject matter specialist, providing input and advice on functional operations, automation, efficiency, and procurement processes.
• Identify and facilitate continuous improvement opportunities, overseeing Procurement delivery day-to-day operations.
• Accelerate the advancement of harmonized upstream practices and automation utilization in downstream procurement processes and solutions.
• Coordinate the identification, consolidation, validation, and submission of site-specific process and systems maintenance and enhancement requests.
• Lead and support the implementation of regional process and policy changes, including local process documentation updates and training.
• Manage and support Operational Procurement Audit compliance activities.
• Provide input into systems settings, including relevant local data and organizational setups.
• Assist with complex purchasing and guiding Shared Service Center escalations as appropriate.
• Conceptualize and prototype ideas by creating basic tools in partnership with stakeholders and procurement teams.
• Work within the broader global team and GP networks to determine the roles needed to deliver project and foundational work.

Qualifications :

• University degree, preferably in business or information technology, with 5+ years in procurement operational procurement, technology management, or process management.
• Ability to explain general capability area information to others and collect / translate moderately complex stakeholder requirements.
• Understanding of process / system variation at each local site to ensure local requirements are represented.
• Experience with Procurement requisition and procure to pay systems and processes.
• Experience in leading or supporting value improvement programs utilizing lean or agile project methodologies.

Management Methodologies :

• Depth in Lean Six Sigma and Agile methodologies is preferred.
• Experience with enterprise systems and procure to pay and eSourcing tools.
• Business level fluency in English (German may be beneficial for certain positions).

Mindset and Behaviors :

• Act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge to create solutions for business customers through collaboration.
• Be action-oriented, making decisions and influencing others to do the same.
• Demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas.
• Work with colleagues across procurement and the broader organization to better understand customer needs.
• Be open-minded and inclusive, sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to feedback.

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Contract Info

• Job ID : 37555
• Open Positions : 1

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