Reporting to the Strategic Sourcing Manager, the Strategic Sourcing Specialist will work closely with the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P) teams to execute strategic sourcing activities. The role involves sourcing, managing vendor relationships, and negotiating and managing contracts. This is an in-office role based in Markham, Ontario.

Primary Scope of Role

Key Responsibilities

• Data collection, analysis and defining business needs.
• Develop sourcing & procurement strategies and plans together with Procurement Managers that meets business and organizational needs.
• Prepare business case, Total Cost of ownership (TCO) analysis and development of (RFx).
• Lead the planning, development, and implementation of risk-managed cost-effective flow of goods and service to support the business needs.
• Identify and capture the demand, identified potential suppliers and establish a communication channel towards the suppliers.
• Negotiate pricing, delivery, terms and supplier performance conditions to satisfy financial, quality and delivery requirements.
• Prepare and coordinate RFP/RFQ Process and establish sourcing strategies for suppliers and services.
• Solicit quotations and analyze contract proposals while leading formulation of strategy and negotiation of pricing, delivery, terms, and conditions to satisfy requirements for highly complex and specialized materials, equipment, components, and services.

Specific Duties

• Assist with the bid process including NDA’s, meetings, issuance, closing, evaluation, and awarding of quotes, tenders, and RFP’s.
• Promote procurement strategies, scopes of work, specifications, and scoring.
• Maintain records and documentation on all solicitations with vendors.
• Analyze and evaluate all elements of cost for commodity groups to identify improvements.
• Conduct spend analysis and ad-hoc audits to identify category opportunities and develop sourcing strategy.
• Responsible for managing tail spend and maximizing compliance to GIP contracts and agreements.
• Develop strategies and tactics to maximize supplier base cost/value.
• Lead the quarterly business reviews with suppliers to align GIP and supplier expectations and priorities.
• Create baselines for newly negotiated contracts to track savings.
• Conduct research and due diligence to understand market trends and best practices to provide strategic outlooks for the category.
• Document category status updates, timelines, project status, next steps.
• Manage and measure process performance against KPIs and ROI of technology and knowledge work.
• Present and speak to large groups or in training environments about SS&P roadmap initiatives.
• Create detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of various material and service categories to lay out the strategic direction for sourcing activities.
• Conduct research to bring up-to-date market knowledge, industry trends, and innovation to identify new vendors and build relationships with them.
• Manage contract compliance while identifying opportunities for improvement, work with Regional Procurement Managers on strategies to increase compliance.
• Responsible for developing relationships with key internal staff to analyze and implement solutions that meet specific needs of GIP Business Units
• Any other duties as required by the business.

Position Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in challenging roles in sourcing and procurement.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in procurement, project management, or a relevant logistics role.
• Procurement certifications are considered an asset.
• Results-driven with an ability to deliver success in a fast-paced environment.
• Outcome focused, critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize to ensure continuous improvement across our business.
• Must be a self-starter who is willing to work on their own initiative and goal focused.
• Ability to connect and interact with people to seek different perspectives.
• Superb communication and interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Strong ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities.
• Demonstrate versatility and resourcefulness in overcoming business challenges.
• Periodically travel to locations across the region.

About Us

Our People

At Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP), our people are second to none. Our most valuable asset is people – our employees, our customers, and the public. Nothing is more important than our people coming to work happy and leaving safely. GIP team members are at the heart of our success in designing and delivering infrastructure projects safely, thoughtfully, and with the highest quality.

Our Work

The work we do impacts lives. It impacts our schools and neighbourhoods and shapes our communities and cities. We are one of Canada’s largest and fastest growing construction companies. Every day our people are designing, delivering, and maintaining infrastructure for Canada’s rapidly growing cities. From demolition, shoring and foundations, excavation, remediation, to structures, paving and the production of materials, we have the unique ability to self-perform all project scopes without reliance on sub-contractors. The work we do at GIP today will carry us into a better, greener, and safer tomorrow.

Our Culture

We are committed to fostering a work environment that embraces Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging for all so our people benefit from the creative solutions that come from embracing differences. Sustainability is part of our DNA. We focus on recycling and reusing materials by taking old roads and reengineering them into new roads, keeping tons of used materials out of our landfills.

As we look to the future, we need creative, ambitious, and innovative professionals who can help us to build the world of tomorrow, today. If you want to work for a world-class organization that provides an exceptional career experience with an inclusive and collaborative culture, this opportunity is for you!

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Green Infrastructure Partners Inc. “GIP”, is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply. We seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives.

We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. GIP will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs.