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Strategic Sourcing Specialist***Spécialiste, approvisionnements stratégiques
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Manage indirect procurement categories across North America by analyzing spend, negotiating supplier agreements, developing vendors, implementing VMI/consignment, setting KPIs, and collaborating with operations and maintenance to reduce costs and improve supplier performance and risk mitigation.
IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.
We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Strategic Sourcing Specialist. This role will be based out of our office in Oakville, ON and will report into the Director, Strategic Sourcing.
Do not miss this opportunity to be a brand ambassador. This family focused team is comprised of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!
Job Summary
As the Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Indirect Procurement, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing and optimizing indirect spend categories across North America, including professional services, IT, MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Operations), and other key business services. Through spend analysis, supplier management, strategic negotiations, and cross-functional collaboration, the Sourcing Specialist will identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and enhance operational efficiency.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Oversee and manage sourcing needs for site purchases indirect categories including– services, maintenance repair and materials.
- Perform analysis of portfolio of spend, looking for synergies for negotiations across the business – Operations and Distribution Centres (DC’s)
- Works closely with Procurement Operations to review future spends and set strategy for negotiations for plants, DC’s, clusters or regions
- Negotiate agreements for required goods and services.
- Assess the use of Vendor Managed Inventory or consignment programs and implement where beneficial.
- Maintain regular supplier relationship and business review meetings
- Monitor / Evaluate / Mitigate single sourcing situations
- Work with the sites to secure multiple supplier bids where required
- Development of new vendors and manage relationships with existing vendors to ensure required vendor performance.
- Design and execute Purchasing Action Plan (PAP) for responsible categories, identifying targets, assessing and initiating cost reduction opportunities and coordinate reporting of the same
- Set up Indirect Procurement KPI’s, measure, monitor and report
- Works with maintenance engineering to review projects and set strategy for negotiations for the region
- Conduct market research, benchmarking, and detailed cost analyses to support sourcing decisions and continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications and Experience:
- Completion of post-secondary education in a related field
- Working towards or completed SCMP designation
- Strong strategic thinking with aptitude for negotiation
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a supply chain environment
- Experience selling ideas to higher level management
- Intermediate Excel and data analytical skills involving large datasets Pivot Tables, Graphing, Charts, Macros
- Experience in supplier management and SAP is preferred
The compensation for this position is between $81,300 and 101,600 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at [email protected]
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