Business Lead

Competition Number: 2025-005

Functional Area: Operations

Location: 99 Adesso Drive, Vaughan Ontario

Job Term: Permanent full-time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Bargaining Unit: AMAPCEO

Job Code: AMAPCEO 6

Salary Range: $82,217-$121,155 per year

Posting Status: Open

Posting Date: April 16, 2025

As a Business Lead, you will provide business leadership and expertise for the development, implementation, and management of strategies, plans, and systems from multiple program areas.

Other key responsibilities include:

Business Planning & Leadership:

• Plans and leads the development of strategic business and operational plans necessary to support program areas to achieve health priorities and ensures access to emergency stockpile equipment and supplies as well as lifesaving drugs during health emergencies.
• Develops related business materials such as business cases, options, costing of supplies and equipment, processes and business practices, and presents recommendations to senior management.

Contract & Supply Chain Management:

• Manages the contractual agreement between Supply Ontario, warehouse, and distribution vendors to ensure compliance and quality of performance under terms of established contracts and agreements.
• Responds to issues and enquiries and recommends course of action.
• Manages and monitors status of deliveries, receiving processes, purchase order details, and stock management.
• Develops and maintains business relationships with service providers and vendors to acquire services and products and with broader public sector health service providers.
• Coordinates the acquisition process within Vendor of Record requirements and engages with procurement specialists to ensure goals and timelines are achieved.
• Manages and develops the maintenance of resource and contract reporting, tracking, and management systems.
• During an emergency, supports all aspects of supply chain logistics to support the response.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the following:

• Expertise in business planning, operational management, and resource management for procurement initiatives.
• Skills in logistics, emergency simulations, and health emergency supply chain planning and response.
• Knowledge of processes to prepare business materials for executive approval, including business cases and cost options.
• Ability to prepare procurement materials, manage contracts, and monitor agreements.
• Skills in budget monitoring, financial analysis, and audit functions to ensure compliance with standards.
• Proficiency in managing initiatives and developing project management systems.
• Ability to collect data, review business needs, and develop options for supply chain management.
• Skills in developing and maintaining resource and contract reporting systems.
• Strong oral and written skills to liaise with management, colleagues, and vendors, and prepare various business documents.

Communication Skills:

• Strong negotiation skills to negotiate contractual agreements and services and to develop and maintain business relationships with service providers and vendors.
• Ability to provide strategic resource planning and management expertise and advice to senior management to meet the supply chain management requirements.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills to develop and maintain liaison with senior management to keep abreast of initiatives, provide advice, and resolve issues.
• Strong presentation skills to communicate supply chain initiatives, respond to queries, and make presentations to senior management.

Problem Solving & Decision-Making Skills:

• Ability to research business needs, options, and alternatives for supply chain initiatives.
• Experience defining business needs, conducting research on best practices, and providing advice on benefits and risks of strategies.
• Able to identify issues and pressures impacting procurement and warehousing to ensure quality control and security of materials.
• Strong leadership skills to provide expertise in developing, implementing, and managing strategies, plans, and systems for resource management.
• Able to support all aspects of supply chain logistics, maintaining critical interactions with other divisions and ministries.
• Proven experience developing policies and plans for short and long-term implementation of initiatives.
• Ability to manage contractual agreements between the warehouse and distribution vendors or providers for procurement initiatives.
• Ability to work within provincial procurement directives, emergency management policies, and supply chain management best practices.

Supply Ontario offers a competitive compensation package including benefits and defined benefit pension plan.

The selected candidate will be required to reside and work in Ontario and be legally eligible to work in Canada.

Candidates are required to provide references for verification and to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

Please apply by April 30, 2025.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Supply Ontario endeavors to promote the principles of diversity and inclusion in all of our policies, practices, and the way we do business while ensuring compliance with the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code.

We are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and to promoting a diverse, inclusive, accessible, respectful, and equitable workplace.

We invite applications from all interested and qualified individuals, from all backgrounds, and walks of life. Your experiences are valuable, and we’re excited to learn how you might be able to lend your skills to further Supply Ontario’s mission and achieving its vision.

At Supply Ontario, we recognize and value the exceptional skills, dedication, and diverse perspectives that veterans bring to the workforce. We strongly encourage veterans to apply to join our team.

We are committed to providing employment practices and accommodation that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Human Rights Code. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, including in relation to the materials and processes to be used, please notify Human Resources at Talent Acquisition (CSCO) talentacquisition@supplyontario.ca.

If you request accommodation, Human Resources will consult with you to provide or arrange for suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account your accommodation needs.