Senior Procurement Analyst, Engineering - Montreal, Canada - CN

Description

Reporting to the Category Manager, the Senior Procurement Specialist is responsible for conducting all procurement activities necessary to deliver value on their category. This role is a permanent position as part of the category Engineering Design & Construction / Bridges & Structure team.

Main Responsibilities

Procurement Management

· Interact with internal stakeholders, understand their needs and promote value creation

· Conduct data analytics during different stages of the sourcing process

· Develop category strategy and supplier market knowledge

· Build and manage Request for Proposals, evaluate supplier responses and prepare business cases to submit for management approval

· Negotiate contracts with suppliers (commercial & legal clauses)

· Manage contracts, supplier relationships and supplier performance.

· Work with Buyers to ensure all rates and agreements are appropriately administered in the Purchase to Pay (P2P) process ( SAP, Ariba, Fieldglass etc.)

· Ensure that all internal requirements in terms of compliance to procurement policy are meet and addressed

· Participate and support department wide projects when required

Working Conditions

The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular workweek from Monday to Friday. The role requires minimal (20%) travel (infrequent and short trips). The position work from home on Wednesday and Friday, and in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Office is based in Montreal.

Requirements

Experience

· Design and Construction Procurement Experience

· Between 4 to 5 years experience in a similar role

Education/Certification/Designation

· Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering

Competencies

· Continuously displays a customer centric attitude in order to improve the customer's journey

· Inspires others with impactful communications and adapts to the audience

· Collaborates with key internal stakeholders to enable higher productivity

· Negotiations (Negotiates towards a win-win outcome while taking all points of view into consideration)

· Applies analytical thinking to make recommendations that pursue sustainable performance

· Project management

· Deals with pressure and change by staying calm to quickly adapt to changes

Technical Skills/Knowledge

· Ability to read and understand design drawings, specifications and technical requirements

· Ability to drive innovative analysis to understand the market trends, cost drivers, suppliers and best practices

· Strong technical skills related Design and Construction tender document

· Understand strategic sourcing best practices

· Understand contract structure, terms and conditions and supplier performance principles

· Knowledge of commercial aspects of product/service categories

· Understand rail transportation or logistic industry*

*Any knowledge for any of the above would be considered as an asset