Manager, Strategic Procurement, Enterprise Risk, Contracts and Insurance

Confederation College; Northwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational institution is seeking a Manager for Strategic Procurement, Enterprise Risk, and Contracts to lead procurement initiatives and risk management at their Ontario campus. This role involves enhancing sustainable procurement practices, managing a procurement team, and overseeing contract negotiations. The ideal candidate will leverage strong leadership and strategic thinking skills to align procurement strategies with the institution’s goals. A relevant degree and experience in procurement and risk management are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in procurement and contract management.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management concepts.
• Experience in developing sustainable procurement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead institution-wide procurement projects and sustainable practices.
• Provide operational leadership in enterprise risk management.
• Manage and mentor procurement team.

Skills

Leadership in procurement

Strategic thinking

Sustainable procurement practices

Risk management

Contract negotiation

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Under the direction of Senior Director, Financial Services, the Manager, Strategic Procurement, Enterprise Risk and Contracts, provides leadership on institution-wide procurement projects initiatives. To achieve strategic procurement alignment, the Manager is responsible for the following:

Strategic and Sustainable Procurement and Contract Management

• Lead the effort to strengthen processes that enable data-driven decision making, increased spend and procurement activity visibility and drive overall implementation of strategic procurement projects using well-structured templates, data tools and models.
• Responsible for leading and managing the College’s sustainable procurement program. This role involves developing and implementing procurement strategies that align with the College’s sustainability goals and ensure that goods and services are sourced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. The manager will collaborate with various departments, suppliers, and stakeholders to promote sustainable practices and achieve cost-effective, sustainable procurement solutions. Sustainable procurement implementation and metrics will be reported to the Senior Director, Financial Services.
• Manage interdependencies within and across supply chain by diagnosing vendor, delivery and performance risk and ensuring mitigation actions are put in place and well communicated.
• Incumbent has the knowledge and expertise to provide advice to interdisciplinary project teams and leaders across the organization on the delivery of procurement, contracts, and strategic vendor management relationship.
• Incumbent responsibility also includes building thorough documentation / communication channel for all stakeholders (internal and external) on procurement and strategic sourcing, sustainable procurement, best practices and compliance.
• The incumbent ensures that the College is in compliance with Procurement Policies and Procedures, Broader Public Sector Directives and trade agreements. The incumbent has responsibility of assessing the supply contracts risks and develop process efficiencies to mitigate supply chain/ procurement/ Contracts risk for the college.
• The incumbent, in consultation with the Senior Director, Financial Services has the prime responsibility for leading tendering process, negotiating complex and high dollar value contracts, manage centralised contracts repository, resolving contract disputes.
• The incumbent is responsible for managing, mentoring, growing procurement team, keeping policies and procedures up to date.

Enterprise Risk Management and Insurance

• The Incumbent provides leadership at the operational level on Enterprise Risk Management and is responsible for supporting the Senior Director, Financial Services with building, centralizing and overseeing the continuing development, implementation and maintenance of an enterprise risk management framework for the College. This includes assisting with the identification and assessment of key risks the College’s strategies and business plans, recommending risk management systems, tools, policies, procedures, and monitoring mechanisms. The domains of risk to be considered include but are not limited to; finance, legal and compliance, people and culture, operational – service delivery, strategic and operational – technology.
• The manager is also responsible for administering the College’s insurance portfolio, including the facilitation of filing claims, and the renewal of policies in consultation and coordination with the College’s insurance brokers.