Manager, Operations and Procurement

PwC•Toronto, ON

About The Position

A career within Operations and Procurement consulting services will provide you with the opportunity to work with our clients to improve value within their businesses and to their communities through their procurement practices and safeguard their sources of supply. These are particularly critical in our economic environment today. Our clients are seeking our services to help improve their procurement and sourcing activities by understanding their business, analyzing their spending, understanding their supplier markets, integrating technology systems to identify opportunities for supporting their business goals. In addition, our clients also need our services to discover the best ways to reduce costs for procurement of goods and services through the integration of strategies that integrate opportunities beyond price reductions. You’ll work with clients across sectors – from government and public sector organizations to private sector organizations in different parts of the economy in these critically timely challenges. As a Manager, Operations and Procurement, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience in leadership roles of a procurement function or similar experience with a leading management consulting firm, demonstrating working knowledge of category management and strategic sourcing, procurement function strategy and operating model development and implementation, procurement function process and technology design and implementation
Proven success in building trusted executive relationships by demonstrating subject matter expertise in the procurement function
Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment, collaborative working and high-quality client focused services
Exemplify strong attention to detail, strong analytical, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills
Entrepreneurial and results driven achiever
Proven track record of managing and delivering complex, multi-faceted transformation projects, demonstrating strategic and creative thinking, excellent writing, presentation, communication and influencing skills, individual initiative and motivating teams.
Proven leader with extensive abilities to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members, foster a productive teamwork environment, lead teams to generate a vision, leverage diverse views, and help develop and grow team members throughout the course of every engagement.

Nice To Haves

An interest in continuous upskilling for a digital world.
Procurement and relevant technological trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work
Preferably have experience with leading procurement technology (e.g. SAP S4 Sourcing & Procurement, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, Coupa)

Responsibilities

Understanding and experience of procurement and sourcing, covering sourcing to contract, procurement to pay, contract management and supplier management
Understand end-to-end source-to-pay (budgeting, planning, sourcing, procurement, payment)
Familiar with spend analysis and understanding levers impacting procurement costs saving
Able to identify, track and report key procurement metrics to reduce cost and improve effectiveness
Able to generate and have experience in implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies such as: TCO, supplier collaboration, design to cost, risk management, price leverage, organizational design, operating model, global sourcing, digital procurement, etc.
Able to assess and drive transformational improvements across procurement and sourcing organizations
Able to perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
Familiar with forecasting price and market trends
Able to develop negotiation strategies for procurement process, as well as contract negotiations to secure profitable deals (time, cost)
Analyze client’s need for the procurement and sourcing to identify business problems leading to developing solution resulting cost improvements, and driving operational efficiencies within the procurement function
Conduct workshops and training sessions to promote best practices in procurement
Establish credibility with our clients by demonstrating expertise and knowledge of various aspects of procurement transformation
Lead the delivery of large engagements, leading a team of 2-5 from initial assessment and business case to full implementation and value creation. This includes the management of engagement risk and project economics including planning and budgeting
Act as a subject matter expert on client projects.
Develop and maintain trusted relationships with decision makers at key clients
Contribute to pursuits and proposal development including architecting innovative approaches and methodologies
Collaborate with PwC colleagues across other lines of services globally to identify best suitable solutions to service our clients’ needs.
Mentor and guide team members in best practices for process design and implementation
Develop and deliver training and share knowledge from across the global network with our team
Actively participate in staff recruitment activities.