Procurement/Supply Chain Professional

We are looking for a Procurement/Supply Chain Professional! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Procurement/Supply Chain Professional
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Remote
Job ID number: C1272

Brief Description of Duties:

• Establish strong and credible relationships across the Capital Markets business platform with the objective of understanding the business strategy and direction
• Develop strategic sourcing strategies and initiatives in tandem with the business for specific categories being sourced
• Build and continuously update a comprehensive and robust contract pipeline to proactively identify, manage, address and report on sourcing opportunities
• Be subject matter expert on RBC’s Enterprise Procurement & Third Party Risk policies and procedures in order to ensure 100% compliance
• Lead the end to end sourcing process
• Negotiate both complex and non-complex IT and Non IT agreements including Master Agreements, Transaction Schedules, Statement of Works, Amendments and other documents
• Develop and implement global efficiencies, standardized tools, technology, policies and procedures related to Procurement
• Drive, innovate and recommend opportunities to continuously improve and enhance the strategic value of Procurement to the organization.

Must Have Skills: 

• Post-secondary education in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or equivalent to a 4 year university program in relevant discipline or related Supply Chain or Procurement Designation
• Solid knowledge, understanding and experience in strategic sourcing with 5+ years of relevant technology experience in sourcing
• Seasoned negotiator who can understand and exploit points of leverage including leveraging contracts terms/conditions in order to optimize cost structures and minimize risk
• Great understanding of commercial and non-commercial provisions of third party documentation
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills to identify and support negotiation strategies

Nice to Have Skills: 

• Excellent communication skills and even better listening skills to champion the “voice of the internal customer”
• Relationship builder who can lead when required and participate and influence others if and when required
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work on multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Experience working in a global financial institution and/or capital markets business  which includes understanding of common technology and suppliers that support a trading environment