- Leading a team of Supply Chain Staff/Contractors in both pre and post contract management activities covering a potential wide range of scope type, complexity and risk.
- Ensuring appropriate resource capability and capacity within their team and that resources are allocated to procurements commensurate to the risk, value and complexity.
- Promoting and ensures a customer service orientated approach to delivery requirements with recognition of relevant constraints, timelines and budgets.
- Collaborating with internal customers, other Contract Leads and stakeholders to identify procurement demand, develop CNL’s Procurement Plan and devises long-term development strategies for respective contracting portfolio.
- Performing analysis and diagnostics to determine industry and consumer trends, including, spend profile and demand forecasting that supports market profiling and strategic planning.
- Managing, facilitating, conducting, and supporting the end to end procurement lifecycle (pre and post contract) and those undertaken by their team, in accordance with Supply Chain Policy, Management Control Procedures and other relevant CNL Policy and Procedures, including:
- Effective Procurement Planning and Strategy Development
- Ensuring appropriate team and stakeholders identified and engaged to support the procurement
- Appropriate market engagement activities, bidder listing and Qualification of Suppliers is performed
- Design, Drafting and management of solicitations
- Evaluation and Selection of Contractors/Suppliers
- Evaluate and respond to clarifications, complaints, challenges and disputes
- Negotiation of agreements and other relevant commercial matters
- Contractor onboarding, relationship management, administration and performance management/oversight, including appropriate financial, change and risk management.
- Contract close out, liabilities management, lessons learned
- Ensuring appropriate contemporaneous records are maintained
- Working with stakeholders and staff in providing authoritative advice and recommendations on appropriate individual contract strategies and process, including the merits of various options and approaches to deliver the intended outcome of procurement, deliver best value and mitigate risk to CNL, whilst ensuring the application of lessons learned are applied.
- Liaising and working with other functional groups including, Quality Assurance, Safety, Finance, as required throughout the procurement lifecycle.
- Reviewing/Authorizing procurement documentation and commitments in accordance with delegated authority.
- Working with and seeking appropriate advice from CNL Legal in determination of contract risks, insurances, conflict of interest, appropriate contract models, and potential disputes.
- Ensuring that structured and trusted relationship with contractor’s vendors has been established to realize intended benefits (including price and quality) and establishes objective contracts performance measures and reporting within their portfolio.
- Developing exit or improvement strategies for underperforming or unsuccessful contracts.
- Seeking and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement within the Supply Chain Function and contributes to functional initiatives.
- Providing training, coaching, mentoring and appropriate feedback to team members on Supply Chain arrangements and performance.
- Ensuring effective ongoing communication and reporting to internal customers and Supply Chain function as required for all activities within portfolio including progress and performance against schedule/targets and other measures which may have been agreed.
- Responding to situations to contain/ mitigate short to mid-term risk within team in accordance with procedures
- Moderating risk to team; limited checks and balances on work.
- Identifying and recommending improvements to moderately complex processes that affect own area and others/clients; implements improvements to processes in own area and related areas/works with clients to implement
- Encouraging/ supporting innovation among others, extending to related areas
- Providing input on corporate scale change
- Post-secondary education in Business, Law, Engineering, Science, IT, or Technical discipline
- Minimum 10 years’ experience, is preferred, of progressive contracting experience, preferably in Procurements of Goods (including under quality programs), Services, and / or Construction and Project management background, subject to complex technical, engineering and/or regulatory environments
- Demonstrates an appreciation for strong work ethics and a high level of professionalism.
- Self-starting, motivated and creative, with ability to work with a high degree of autonomy.
- Demonstration of strong emotional intelligence and communication skills to work with a wider range of potential stakeholders.
- Evidence of effective analytical abilities to interpret data and use to develop strategies and tactics.
- Certification or enrolment within professional development programs and / or associations such as the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA), or the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
- Functional knowledge of Canadian ( Federal and Provincial) Contract Law commensurate with the position accountabilities
- Sound knowledge and appreciation of ethical contracting and business conduct and practice
- Functional knowledge and proficiency with systems-based tools such as Microsoft Office suite
- Exemplary organization and planning skills, with a particular emphasis on detail and team orientation
- Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality written documentation
- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, motivate and align staff, internal customers and suppliers
- Demonstrated proficiency with Enterprise Resource Planning tools such as Oracle Purchasing and
- IProcurement modules considered an asset.
- Work-life balance is an integral part of our overall health and well-being; at CNL, we value this.
- paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal);
- benefits effective day one, that’s right, no waiting period;
- tuition support
- and a pension!
- Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
- Restore and protect the Environment.
- Contribute to the health of Canadians.
• This role is based out of CNL’s Chalk River, which will be the designated workplace. CNL may require travel from time to time, as necessary.