Supervisor, Procurement - Greater Sudbury, Canada - Vale Canada

Vale Canada

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Greater Sudbury, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Title:
Supervisor Procurement (Operations)

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Who We Are:

Welcome to Vale. Our purpose is to improve life and transform the future. Together. We value our workforce and strive to offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

Vale Base Metals is one of the world's largest producers of high-quality nickel and an important producer of copper and responsibly sourced cobalt.

With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and operations in Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, UK, Indonesia, and Brazil, we are delivering the critical building blocks for a cleaner, greener future.

We invite you to be part of our evolution.

Our Team:

Our Sudbury Operations have been in existence for more than 100 years.

With five mines, a mill, a smelter, a refinery and nearly 4,000 employees it is also one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world.

The Port Colborne Refinery was also commissioned 100 years ago on the shore of Lake Erie.

Raw materials and finished products from Vale's Sudbury and Newfoundland and Labrador operations are transported to Port Colborne for processing.

The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Procurement Supervisor to join our Procurement Operations Team in Sudbury. This is a
permanent position.

The Procurement Supervisor will execute Vale's procurement for the operations, through the complete understanding of the sourcing process, aligned with the standards and controls of the Vale Procurement team, ensures the accomplishment of the area financial goals and company growth objectives in the region

Your accountabilities will include:

Execute Procurement Sourcing in North America for group of categories.
Responsible for managing the successful execution of the procurement sourcing plan for commodities and services outlined in area of accountability.
Facilitate the interfacing of Procurement Analysts with local users, consolidating and understanding their needs and demands.
Support the Global/Regional/Local Procurement Manager in providing precise demand specifications and negotiating the regional/local clauses of Global purchasing as required to support team.
Supervise the purchase of Global, Regional and Local categories as assigned to team.
Suggest annual cost saving programs and assist in the implementation of business strategies that directly affect the Company's financial results and growth plans.
Recruit and develop a high performing and motivated procurement team.
Lead multifunctional teams in order to ensure users demands are met in terms of quality, budgeting and timing.
Lead multifunctional teams in order to improve strategic demands specifications, test new products and solutions and monitoring products performance.
Define and validate procurement strategy recommended by procurement analysts.
Seek input, user feedback to the procurement process, allowing continuous learning and improvement.
Ensure procurement process compliance to company's norms as well as the required internal and external auditing criteria.
Represent Vale at external meetings with national associations, federations, industry organization, public and private entities.

About You

Education**:

Undergraduate degree is required.
Certified Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP) an asset.

Experience:

Knowledge & Skills:

Proven analytical skills.
Strong writing and verbal communications skills.
Ability to interact at all levels of the organization including with senior management.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of financial systems such as SAP
Knowledge & experience of Quality Management systems like ISO9001

How can Vale grow your career?

Vale Canada offers a series of benefits including:

Competitive salary
Attractive pension and benefits (company paid core coverage, flex health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans and optional insurances)
Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation, flex, sick, top up for maternity/parental)
Flexible work arrangements
Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth.
Grow your career in a large and global company, and mining industry leader.
Employee Family Assistance Program
Online training and career development opportunities
Opportunities to advise and oversee the design, budget and construction of new mines and expansions.

Include to Transform
At Vale, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive work environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. Vale encourages everyone to express their ideas and opinions and values the plurality of individual profiles.

We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are critical to our success.

We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, ge