Duration: 12 months (possible extension)

Description:

As a Procurement Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Thanks to your strong problem-solving and core procurement skills, you will effectively collaborate with internal procurement (customer relationship management, contracting, solutions, etc.) and business stakeholders to translate business needs into sourcing, spend management activities, and content enhancement. Based on your general procurement and commodity expertise, you ensure the effective and efficient delivery of core procurement services and continuous improvement of automation and content availability.
The Delivery capability covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, content strategy definition, and execution.
This position is part of the Indirect Procurement Delivery team reporting into the Procurement Delivery Lead - R&D.

Job Duties/Responsibilities
As a Procurement Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, such as:

Contract expertise, working with Confidentiality Agreements, Master Agreements, VendorAgreements. Sourcing subject matter specialist able to develop and implement strategies for Client stakeholders.
Procurement manager delivering and executing sourcing strategies by leveraging spend, category strategy, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management, and project management skills to achieve objectives and key results.
You will work within the broader team and Global Procurement networks and squads to determine the various roles needed to deliver project and foundational work.

Qualification/Experience Required

You hold a university degree, with a business degree preferable. You also have 5+ years of experience in sourcing, contracting, operational efficiency projects, or relevant commodity experience, preferably in the Pharmaceutical industry.
Knowledge in the Clinical Development and/or Clinical Technologies area (e.g. CRO, IxRS, Patient recruitment, Imaging, Patient questionnaires, licensing etc.)
The ability to explain general capability area information to others or collect/translate moderate complexity stakeholder requirements in straightforward situations.
Knowledgeable in procurement systems and operational processes, such as contracting, e-Sourcing, is desired.
Proven capability in negotiating project budgets and contracts
You have knowledge and experience in supplier management, contract negotiations, cost optimization, market research & analysis in R&D categories, and understand the related R&D regulations (e.g. Google Cloud Platform).
You have skills in project management.
Business level fluency in English.

Nice to Have Skills Required - Technical / Non-Technical

You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.
You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.
You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Client organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

Note:

This is an onsite role within the Mississauga Campus. Candidate will be required to work onsite at least 3 days every week or as per local policy.

About US Tech Solutions:
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US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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