Bell is a truly Canadian company with over 135 years of success. We are defined by the passion of our team members and their belief in our company’s vast potential.
To ensure we continue to be recognized as Canada’s leading communications company, we’re committed to finding and developing the next generation of leaders. This means creating best-in-class career and development opportunities for our employees.
If you’re passionate, driven and find yourself seeking interesting work, new challenges and continuous learning opportunities, then we want you to join our team.
Corporate Groups offers best practice services to support the organization, including Finance, Legal & Regulatory, Brand, Corporate Services – including HR, Communications, Real Estate, Security and Procurement & Value Creation.
The Procurement Organization manages all aspects of sourcing & procurement within BCE. The Procurement Organization’s mission is to create value to internal business units through its strategic role of providing best-in- class sourcing solutions and suppler relationship management, while improving BCEs EBITDA through continuous cost reductions.
This is achieved through:
- Collaborating with internal business units on product and service sourcing activities (eRFPs, eRFQs, eAuctions)
- The negotiation of commercial purchasing agreements and other legal documents on behalf of BCE and its global supplier community, setting the terms and conditions for the provision of products and services to BCE while optimizing BCE’s opportunities for improvements to EBITDA through reduced costs.
- Overall management of key supplier relationships to maximize supplier performance.
We are seeking a candidate to join the Indirect Procurement Team as Category Manager: Travel & Incentive Management within Bell Canada’s Procurement Organization. The primary responsibilities for this Category Manager role are all related to BCE’s Travel (Air, Hotel, Car Rental, Rail Travel), Corporate Credit Card and Employee Incentive purchases.
Job duties/accountabilities:
- Collaborate with internal business units to collect, analyze and amalgamate business, technical, service and cost requirements and considerations.
- Develop procurement portfolio and category strategies and develop sourcing and supplier negotiation plans which target increased value for BCE at a lower cost. Evaluate and communicate internally next generation industry best practices and alternatives.
- Lead and take overall “end to end” accountability for supplier e-sourcing activities (eRFPs, eRFQs, eAuctions) including sourcing document creation, data collection, data analysis and comparative review, negotiation and vendor selection.
- Lead and take overall “end to end” accountability for supplier commercial negotiations including drafting commercial agreements with BCE Legal department, contract negotiations, completing internal approval processes, contract signing and archiving.
- Manage ongoing supplier relationships and commercial agreements including service level agreements to their maximum potential, identify problem areas and take corrective action.
- Track and communicate internally to internal business units and executives supplier spend, savings, performance and issues.
- Conduct supplier management review sessions with key suppliers to ensure continuous improvement and cost reductions.
- Counsel internal business units on procurement policies and processes and can manage partnering relationships.
Essential skills/competencies:
- University degree in Business, Finance or Law
- Minimum 3 years Business experience
- Highly Motivated, Proactive and Positive
- Strong Negotiating and Problem Solving skills
- Ability to work with Autonomously
- Expertise/Knowledge of the purchasing field (theoretical and practical)
- Excellent Communication (written and verbal) skills (Microsoft Word, Powerpoint)
- Advanced Analytical skills (Microsoft Excel)
- Ability to create strong relationships with internal business units and suppliers
- Ability to think creatively and strategically
Asset:
- Post University degree in Business, Finance or Law
- 5+ years Business experience
- Experience/Knowledge of the general purchasing/procurement field (theoretical and practical)
- Experience/Knowledge of the Travel (Air, Hotel, Car Rental, Rail Travel), Corporate Credit Card or Employee Incentive Industries (theoretical and practical)
- Experience/Knowledge of BCE’s organisation & interworkings
- Fully bilingual (written and verbal)
- CPP accreditation
Bilingualism is an asset (English and French)
Additional Information:
Position Type: Management
Job Location: Canada : Ontario : Toronto || Canada : Quebec : Montreal
Application Deadline: 07/09/2015
Please apply directly online to be considered for this role. Applications through email will not be accepted.
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