Buyer

Veolia | North America; Oakville; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Veolia North America is seeking an Order Fulfillment Buyer/Expeditor to support production schedules by handling purchase orders from issue to close, expediting deliveries, and ensuring accurate delivery dates in SAP.

The role collaborates with PSI, Plant Production, Logistics, and Sourcing teams, with a requirement of 5+ years in purchasing or supply chain and a bachelor’s degree. This is a hybrid role with in-office days Tue–Thu in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Minimum 5 years in purchasing, expediting, or supply chain.
• Experience negotiating with proven results.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-stakes negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms.
• Oversee supplier management, ensuring performance metrics and contract compliance.
• Maintain strong relationships with the strategic team to align procurement activities.
• Create POs and interface with suppliers to ensure receipt and ship dates.
• Ensure planned ship dates align with production needs and drive delivery improvements.
• Coordinate with Logistics to ensure safe and prompt shipping.
• Invoice resolution with supplier and Accounts Payable.
• Manage Master Data accuracy and support cost recognition.

Skills

Negotiation

Expediting

PO lifecycle

Google Suite

SAP Knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

SAP

Google Suite

Job description

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Tech Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Tech Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Position Summary

As an Order Fulfillment Buyer/ Expeditor within the Sourcing team, you will interact with PSI, Plant Production, Logistics, Category Management, Sourcing, Quality Assurance, accounts payable, and suppliers to help support production activities and schedules. You will be responsible for purchase orders and their contents from the moment they are issued until they are closed out, i.e., setting contract terms, maintaining Outline Agreements, order confirmation, expediting deliveries, maintaining accurate delivery dates in SAP, Coordinating with Quality and Logistics, resolving any payment issues to the supplier, financial tracking of costs recognition, and any other tasks as assigned by the manager.

Essential Functions

• Lead high-stakes negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms and drive cost efficiencies.
• Oversee comprehensive supplier management, ensuring performance metrics, contract compliance, and long-term partnership development.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the strategic team to align procurement activities with broader organizational objectives.
• PO creation and interfacing with suppliers to ensure the PO is received/acknowledged, scheduled, and the ship date is met.
• Ensure planned ship date aligns with production needs and, if not, work with the supplier to improve delivery.
• Follow up with email correspondence in an organized and timely fashion, and comply with documentation requirements
• Manages Quarterly Price Adjustments and maintains Outline Agreements
• Regularly assessing deliveries and expediting as necessary
• Collaborating with Internal and External stakeholders
• Ensure Master Data is accurate
• Invoice resolution with the supplier and Accounts Payable
• Coordinating with Logistics to ensure goods are shipped safely and promptly
• Other tasks as assigned

Qualifications

Position Qualifications

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) in an applicable or related field to Sourcing/Procurement/Supply Chain/ Business Administration
• 5 years minimum experience in increasing roles in purchasing, expediting, or supply chain

Required Skills

• Experience in negotiating with proven results
• Excellent Expediting skills, preferably related to Engineering equipment
• Familiarity with purchase order conditions, INCOTERMS, domestic and International Logistics
• Good communicator having strong interpersonal, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Time Management skills
• Capable of working in a team, prioritizing, multitasking, and organizing
• Agile and adaptable to changing priorities
• Purchase order life cycle management
• Proficient in Google Suite (Gmail, Sheets, Docs, and Google Meet)
• SAP Knowledge

Desired Qualifications

• Expert:
  • Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field
• Strategic:
  • Gets the big game. Understands long-term. Respects the short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise
• Inspirational:
  • Ability to inspire/ motivate others
• Curious:
  • Ability to pose high-impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where others see problems
• Courageous:
  • Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions
• Humble:
  • Respectful towards peers, team members, leadership and stakeholders.
• Holistic:
  • Think customer and Company first
• Accountable:
  • Demonstrates responsibility, ownership and commitment. Taking responsibility for making tough calls when necessary
• Ambitious:
  • Identifies underlying truths and comes up with ideas that change the way we conceptualize issues, depicts a vision of the future that rallies teams to compete in new ways
• Preferred global experience

This position requires 10% annual travel

This position is a Hybrid role that requires being in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and working from home on Mondays and Fridays

Additional Information

Join a company that values Responsibility, Solidarity, Innovation, Customer Focus, and Respect. You'll have opportunities for comprehensive leadership development, career advancement, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on sustainability and environmental protection while leading a talented team.

At Veolia, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, and because our people are our greatest assets, we also offer competitive compensation and benefits.

Compensation

The compensation range is tied to the market for similarly benchmarked roles. The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. Depending upon all the preceding considerations for the final selected individual candidate, the offer may be lower or higher than the stated range: $70,000.00 - $75,000.00 CAD

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclosure

• We do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.

Vacancy Status

• This posting is for an existing vacancy.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in Canada; the employer will not sponsor applicants for Canadian work authorization for this opportunity

Veolia does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting firms. All vendors must have a current and fully executed MSA on file before submitting candidates. Any unsolicited resumes and candidate profiles will be deemed the property of the company, and no fee will be due.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.