Procurement and Estates Manager

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Oversees the purchasing and acquisition of materials, equipment, and services for construction projects, ensuring cost-effectiveness, timely delivery, and quality. This role involves strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and ensuring compliance with project budgets and timelines. Coordinates the development of technical specifications, providing vendors and contractors with information to assemble bids and begin the purchasing process for construction and renovation or capital improvement projects
Drafts, reviews, approves and negotiates a variety of contracts, contract amendments and contract extensions including for Architect/Engineering contracts, Construction contracts, and Trade service contracts Serves as a resource and liaison between the construction management department and purchasing department
Collaborates with the construction management department to interpret schedules and synchronize purchasing of materials, equipment, supplies and furnishings to support scheduled work
Reviews spending patterns, identifies procurement opportunities from a wide variety of information sources Prepares and issues RFP's to potential suppliers in support of complex, strategic initiatives
Works with internal clients to develop accurate statements of requirements, considering total costs and benefits of complex strategic procurement initiatives.
Responsible for analysis of complex, multi-faceted proposals, conducts supplier negotiations on complex procurement initiatives
Develops and maintains professional relationships and networks with internal customers, suppliers, and other procurement organizations
Works with suppliers to develop content for Purolator's electronic catalogue
O.'s, requisitions, database maintenance and generating statistical information from SAP Fosters teamwork by providing team with required information, fosters team spirit by emphasizing team goals over individual goals, encourages team to work together
Responsible for the creation and maintenance of purchasing files
Knowledge of contracting concepts and contract acquisition law and regulations as related to planning, design, and construction services

• Exemplifies and consistently demonstrates our core competencies of communication, innovation, change management, relationship building and leadership
• 5-7 years of experience with capital construction projects as a Procurement Professional Ability to read and understand construction drawings, and basic building engineering concepts Senior experience required; Thorough knowledge of all aspects of Procurement
• Excellent business/financial acumen - understanding of business principles and data and their use in formulating business decisions, ability to formulate decisions based on cost-benefit analyses of situations, applies customer, market, or industry awareness to solving problems
• Excellent written skills, writes effective proposals, business cases, and communications, prepares clear written analyses of issues or problems
• Flexibility - shifts priorities as required in a changing environment, maintains effectiveness in an environment which contains ambiguity and uncertainty
• Working knowledge of general office suite software, in particular spreadsheets.
• Enrollment in PMAC courses an asset SAP (MM module) experience an asset.
• Bilingualism an asset

Location: 530 - Corporate
Working Conditions: Office Environment
Reports to: Manager Procurement
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