Manager, Indirect Procurement

Role overview

Transformation and sourcing

• Design and implement the indirect procurement centralization strategy and future-state operating model, governance, policies, and sourcing processes.
• Lead change management with plant, corporate, and functional stakeholders; establish category management disciplines across indirect spend.
• Develop sourcing strategies for MRO, facilities, utilities and energy, corporate services, professional services, supplies, fleet, telecommunications, and capital-related services and equipment support.
• Support procurement systems, reporting tools, performance metrics, spend visibility, compliance, controls, and supplier management practices.

Supplier and performance management

• Build strategic supplier partnerships across Canada and develop supplier performance scorecards and governance reviews.
• Identify innovation, service improvement, and cost optimization opportunities with suppliers.
• Deliver annual savings, productivity, and working capital targets; develop category roadmaps and savings pipelines and report realized savings.
• Support budget development and forecast assumptions for indirect spend.

Stakeholders and analytics

• Serve as the primary procurement partner to Operations, Finance, Engineering, Quality, IT, Human Resources, and Corporate Services.
• Build relationships across manufacturing sites, understand local needs, influence stakeholders, and advance standardized procurement practices.
• Analyze spend data, identify sourcing opportunities and risks, develop dashboards, KPI reporting, and sourcing performance metrics.
• Monitor market trends, supplier performance, inflationary pressures, and industry developments.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Commerce, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience, including 3 years managing indirect procurement categories.
• Experience in procurement transformation, centralization, or operating model redesign and managing multi-site operations across Canada.
• Proven results delivering sourcing savings and supplier management improvements; experience building procurement processes, governance structures, and category management frameworks.
• Strong analytical, financial, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, or dairy manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
• SCMP, CPSM, CPM, or equivalent procurement certification is an asset.
• Dairy procurement experience, a Canadian supplier network, and experience with mergers, facility integration, or procurement organizational change are preferred.
• Working knowledge of ERP and procurement systems such as SAP or Microsoft Dynamics is preferred.

Compensation and status

• The posting lists full-time status and a pay range of $95,300 to $145,300 plus bonus; it does not specify a pay cadence.
• Benefits include a retirement savings plan, paid vacation, and other perks and opportunities.

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