Project Procurement Lead
- Cambridge, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Track, monitor and maintain purchase order deliveries to drive on-time delivery to schedules.
- Communicate with, evaluate, and approve suppliers to ascertain their ability to meet company requirements, goals, and objectives.
- Negotiate prices, discounts, and delivery arrangements with suppliers.
- Perform on-going reviews of product, service, equipment, and expense usage to identify new opportunities for cost savings.
- Effective use of historical and other benchmarking data to ensure competitive pricing.
- Manage cost containment, product standardization, supplier consolidation and benchmarking reports, and other supply chain management strategies that maximize value while ensuring that ATS standards are maintained or enhanced.
- Act as a key resource for ATS staff by assisting in the research and development of products, service and equipment alternatives, initiation and follow-up of evaluations, requests for quotation and other day to day procurement.
- Maintain favorable Terms and Conditions for ATS
- Maintain a focus on vendor capacities to enable low-cost design and facilitate a collaborative working relationship between Designers and Suppliers.
- As a key member of new product design teams, advise the project regarding supplier capabilities to achieve lowest cost compliant solutions.
- Understand the product from initial design and provide early input regarding ease and cost of supply.
- Engage suppliers early in the project life to gain their appropriate input into product solutions.
- Support the development of engineering design methodology from a Supply Chain perspective to ensure successful execution through the supply chain.
- Maintain a preferred parts list and use it to drive selection of common parts and design features across multiple projects.
- Devise and implement a project procurement plan.
- Ensure that project parts delivery needs are met in a timely manner through all project phases.
- Maintain regular product material cost metrics for each project and achieve project cost requirements.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Purchasing (or equivalent)
- Experience in a custom manufacturing environment is an asset.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office software including Excel - pivot tables & VLOOKUP + Power Point - presentations
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings is an asset.
- Proven organizational and negotiation skills.
- Excellent oral, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated problem solving and continuous improvement skills
- Demonstrated ability to interact in a team environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives on a cross functional team
- Demonstrated strong analytical, organizational, exercise sound judgment and work without direct supervision in a team environment.
- Utilize proven project management skills.
- Highly motivated, customer-focused team player and innovator.