Procurement Senior Associate

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Job Description & Summary

The Opportunity:

As a Procurement Senior Associate, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to: 

• Oversee a portfolio of cross-functional categories, managing multiple projects simultaneously. 

• Develop and execute cost reduction strategies through rigorous market analysis, sourcing opportunities, and risk/benefit evaluation. 

• Lead supplier evaluations, negotiations, and change management to enhance service levels and achieve total cost of ownership savings. 

• Track, report, and manage performance and modifications within the category portfolio. 

• Conduct periodic spend analyses and develop sourcing strategies to drive cost reduction, improved quality, and service levels. 

• Manage and monitor supplier performance, ensuring alignment with internal end user requirements and contract terms. 

• Lead or participate in supplier audits and cross-functional projects or initiatives. 

• Resolve or assist in resolving conflicts within and between projects and facilitate issue resolution for end users. 

• Identify and implement process improvements, best practices, and maintain efficient sourcing procedures. 

• Develop and manage tools for performance tracking, savings reporting, and eSourcing setup for category portfolios and suppliers. 

What you’ll Bring: 

Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for: 

• Creative problem-solving skills. Suggest alternatives to, and change current working processes, and suggest innovative approaches to adding value  

• Flexibility to adapt to processes and working methods to the needs and motivation of stakeholders  

• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Communicate to build relationships with diverse groups of people (internal stakeholders, suppliers, senior management) 

• Ability to drive consensus through effective communication and team building 

• Ability to coordinate and manage a variety of activities/projects simultaneously  

• Solid knowledge of market intelligence to provide category expertise and to interpret that knowledge to make change  

• Traditional sourcing and purchasing skills such as numerical and negotiations skills 

• PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer.

This position ensures continuity and upholds our standards of excellence following the departure of a valued team member. 

The salary range for this position is $60,600 - $100,900. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements.  We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

Why you’ll love PwC  

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at:  https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc 

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity. 

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