Manager, Global Procurement - Toronto, Canada - KPMG-Canada
Description
Overview
At KPMG, you'll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
Global Procurement (GP) provides procurement services to both KPMG International (KPMGI) and to member firms in situations where goods and/or services are being procured for multiple member firms.
- Leading the KPMG Procurement Leadership Forum, consisting of the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Spain, France, India, Canada, Brazil and KPMG International, in collectively defining and deploying best practices in procurement policies, processes, frameworks and toolkits.
- Aggregating the demand of planned purchases of goods and services across the network (KPMGI and member firms) and leveraging this scale to negotiate competitive contracts with third parties.
- Providing strategic sourcing services to key functional groups in KPMGI (e.g., Global IT Services, Global L&D, Global Collaboration & Knowledge, Global PPC, Global Marketing & Communications), in partnership with the International Office of the General Counsel (IOGC), Information Protection Group, Independence, Information Security & Risk, to enter into contractual relationships with third parties.
Global Procurement endeavors to drive a relentless focus on quality and excellent service, aligning its efforts on KPMG's strategic priorities, and building a culture, wherein, working shoulder-to-shoulder in true partnership with our stakeholders is the norm not the exception.
The Opportunity
The Manager, Global Procurement is responsible for supporting the development and execution of the category plans for the assigned high value/high complexity and high risk category/categories (Application Development and Application Maintenance (ADAM), Professional Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Marketing and Contingent Labor).
This role also leads the contractual and commercial negotiations with third parties on medium complexity/medium risk transactions and supports the negotiations on high value/high complexity/high risk transactions for the assigned category/categories.
**What you will do- Develop and/or refreshes the category strategy and annual plans for assigned categories ensuring alignment with the goals, strategies and value proposition of Global Procurement
- Define the strategies and plans for assigned categories, including buying channel determination, vendor segmentation recommendations, preferred supplier list identification, vendor selection, vendor negotiations and vendor management.
- Engage key stakeholders to understand, identify their business priorities and needs
- Collaborate with member firms to assess and determine common gotomarket strategies, needed to deliver required results
- Implement contracts and leads the daytoday management of contracts ( including negotions and executions)
- Maintain ongoing productive relationships with the Heads of Procurement in key member firms to promote and provide education on Global Procurement's category strategy, key initiatives and value proposition for assigned category
- Post Secondary Education
- Strategic sourcing experience with expertise in Professional and Support Services (Indirect procurement)
- Proven track record of negotiating large enterprise services agreements
- Strong understanding of supplier management (managing technical, schedule, commercial, and terms and conditions compliance)
- Have knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and best practices
- Have sound commercial and contractual acumen
- Be able to draft and negotiate strong contracts
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