SENIOR PURCHASING ANALYST

Job ID: 66333

Job Category: Finance, Accounting & Purchasing

Division & Section: Policy, Planning, Finance & Admin, PPF&A Financial Management

Work Location: METRO HALL, 55 John Street

Job Type & Duration: 1 Full-Time, Permanent Vacancy

Hourly Rate: $44.64 - $48.88

Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 Hours per Week

Affiliation: L79 Full-Time

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 19-Aug-2026 to 02-Sep-2026

Major Responsibilities:

• Provides research and analytical support, advice, and training for service area divisions specific to purchasing procedures and automated systems (SAP and SAP Ariba).
• Collects, analyzes, evaluates, and interprets information/finding to develop recommendations for improvements to existing projects, policies, and services and in the development of concepts and objectives.Presents information using Spreadsheet applications providing analysis and comparison (ie: pivot tables and/or graphs) to Management team and service area.
• Conducts planning and monitoring of purchasing activities related to service area divisions (e.g., review contract, purchase order and divisional purchase spend).
• Performs statistical data extraction as one of the procurement service leads for the service area.
• Establishes systems for collecting, maintaining and analyzing information required for compliant and time effective purchases.
• Develops and provides statistical analysis related to procurement requests including but not limited to divisional purchase orders, contract release orders, goods receipts and contracts.
• Identifies procurement plans and workflow issues and recommends needed changes in order to ensure efficient processing, accountability and required performance quality.
• Reviews all unit policies, processes, procedures, and information systems. Develops and/or recommends improved and enhanced internal business flows to meet program delivery standards. Addresses issues resulting from internal business flow needs, external communication requirements and timelines.
• Tracks of divisional compliance with City's by-law and policies, purchasing regulations, and requirements, e.g., Health and Safety, Fair Wage, Municipal Codes 195 and 71,etc. and assist in this interpretation.
• Provides support and guidance to client divisions on purchasing and materials management functions.
• Liaises and communicated with the client divisions with the City of Toronto Purchasing Division (PMMD) and other areas related to purchasing/procurement.
• Oversees monitoring of existing blanket contracts and co-ordinates commodity and services estimates across the division.
• Provides support in the development and implementation of purchasing practices for the client divisions.
• Provides support with the preparation of Request for Quotations, Request for Proposals and Request of Expression of Interest for the division
• Reviews and releases purchasing documents and ensures compliance with divisional and corporate policies and procedures.
• Provides work direction to junior purchasing staff.
• Prepares reports to Committee and Council concerning purchasing related issues (e.g., over-expenditures, requests for sole sourcing, extensions, etc.).
• Attends committees/meetings dealing with procurement matters.
• Reviews updated statistical techniques of trend analysis including the consumer and industrial price indexes for market information and specific commodity information as it relates to economic purchasing of goods and services
• Maintains awareness of current trends and recommends possible time frames, annual estimates, product specifications for term quotations and blanket contracts scheduling to determine the best time to buy specific commodities.
• Monitors the running evaluation of the divisional purchasing activities (e.g. blanket contracts, purchase orders etc.).
• Ensures divisional purchasing activities (e.g., blanket contracts, purchase orders etc.). are compliant with corporate policies by running and reviewing ad-hoc reports.
• Leads the research of information on price changes of specific commodities for estimating of future inflation costs and feasibility of extending contracts where options exist.
• Leads the research and facilitation of benchmarking studies, and surveys regarding policies, procedures and practices used by other Purchasing functions throughout North America, i.e. By-laws, policies, procedures, practices, etc.
• Compiles research and preparation of reports on corporate issues
• Reviews and maintains information in databases used for divisional and service area statistics on purchasing activity and policies and procedures to ensure accuracy.
• Analyses and evaluates information from the Financial Information System (SAP) to compile information relating to purchasing activity, history, benchmarking, etc.

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. Considerable experience working in purchasing or supply chain management functions in a large public or private organization.
2. Knowledge of research methodologies and techniques with an ability to generate/prepare reports, correspondence, recommendations and research summaries accurately through extraction, analyzing, modelling, interpreting large volumes of data.
3. Considerable experience using spreadsheet applications to analyse, execute queries and present results to management using reports through dashboards, pivot tables and/or graphs, developed with Microsoft Office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe and other database programs.
4. Considerable experience with automated purchasing processes using Financial or Procurement Information Systems (SAP/S4HANA, Ariba etc.).
5. Considerable experience in the preparation of Request for Quotations, Request for Proposals and Request of Expression of Interest for the division
6. Considerable experience providing training to client divisions and/or internal staff, as it relates to procurement processes and/or compliance.

You must also have:

• Ability to establish effective working relationships with employees, client divisions, outside agencies, service providers, suppliers, and representatives from various levels of government.
• Excellent problem-solving skills to analyze requirements, develop or recommend solutions.
• Ability to facilitate training to a variety of audiences, including preparing presentation materials and effectively communicate technical information in a user-friendly capacity.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis, research methodologies and techniques with an ability to prepare reports, correspondence, and Council reports.
• Knowledge of the Purchasing By-law, policies, applicable legislation, and procedures.
• Highly developed verbal, and written communication skills to prepare written reports to clearly explain issues, recommend resolutions, display statistical findings and data in an understandable format.
• Ability to exercise independent judgement and discretion in dealing with confidential matters.
• Ability to support the Toronto Public Service values to ensure a culture that champions equity, diversity and respectful workplaces.

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