
Buyer - Temporary
- Saint-Laurent, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develops, communicates, and executes strategies and objectives for the worldwide sourcing of goods and services.
- Leads formulation and implementation of category strategies. Identifies and conducts cross-functional cost reduction initiatives on sourced products.
- Conducts market intelligence to identifies opportunities and channel innovation. Provides expert recommendations to internal stakeholders. Collaborate closely and deploy strategy with the category vendor manager. Develops and manages supplier relationships.
- Execution of the strategy developed by commodity, through a collaborative and inclusive approach with all Business Unit Stakeholders.
- Promotion and communication of the sourcing strategy for assigned categories to the Category Manger and Value Stream Manager Also, development of and/or contribution to an action plan to evolve sourcing into a strategic business function.
- Identification of cost optimization opportunities across the company and presentation of concise recommendations/plans to management.
- Purchase goods, materials, and commodities to ensure that production operational needs are met, considering price, quality, delivery lead times, supplier penalties and ensuring continuity of supply. These tasks include, sending RFQs, placing orders, expediting, and returning non confirmed parts. Managing invoice discrepancies.
- Perform multi-supplier RFQs/RFIs
- Negotiate and challenge supplier pricing, payment terms and delivery lead times as required
- Create and maintain blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and catalogs as the purchase-to-pay (P2P) processes super user, guide suppliers and stakeholders alike whilst enforcing CAE purchasing policies
- Either college diploma (or equivalent) with min 3years of experience
- Strong negotiation skills
- Relationship building skills.
- Excellent task and project management skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and good presentation skills in English and French.
- Ability to manage geographically dispersed vendors.
- Knowledge of the aviation market and its procurement process.
- Experience with Ariba, both Source to Contract (S2C) and Procure to Pay (P2P) and Oracle
- An environment where your initiatives will be acknowledged and valued.
- The opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team.
- Hybrid work model and flexible vacation.
- Attractive employee benefits.
- Horizontal Leadership and ability to coach analysts and other junior members of the team.