Status: Regular Full Time
Working Conditions: On-site
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Materials Management, Law, or Finance
Base Location: Oshawa, ON
Temporary Work Location: Pickering, ON
Travel: 20%
Deadline to Apply: January 23 2025
Salary Range: $129,000.00 - $206,000.00 Per Year
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JOB OVERVIEW
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is looking for a dynamic, strategic and results-driven professional to join our team in the role of Senior Manager, Supply Chain.
Reporting to the Director Category Management & Strategic Sourcing, this position is responsible to provide strategic direction, execute commercial contracting strategies, and implement a robust supplier relationship management program for OPG. The Senior Manager will be responsible for supporting OPG's Category Management across nuclear, thermal, hydro and corporate functions.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Guide and mentor a team of category leads, fostering a high-performance culture while driving professional growth and succession planning.
- Provide leadership and oversight for the development and execution of category management strategies ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and empowering the team to drive cost efficiency, business value creation, supplier reliability, and risk mitigation across nuclear, thermal, hydro, and corporate functions
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including engineering, operations, and project teams to align procurement initiatives with corporate needs
- Lead and mentor category leads in executing a robust supplier relationship management program, ensuring consistent processes for supplier evaluation, performance monitoring and strategic engagement to drive operational excellence, financial integrity, business value creation, and environmental, social, governance
- Ensure that all procurement activities comply with industry regulations, environmental standards, public sector procurement governance, and corporate policies
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Materials Management, Law, Finance, or related field is required.
- Minimum (6) six years of progressive management experience in supply chain, category management, procurement, purchasing in leading categories, strategic sourcing, commercial contract or vendor management.
- Minimum (3) three years of leadership experience with a similar management scope (approximately (10) ten staff at multiple sites). Demonstrated ability to lead effectively, influence and motivate a team of business and supply chain professionals. Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Proven success and track record in building and leading supply chain operations, purchasing with an emphasis on category management strategy development and execution in a complex organization with over a billion+ spend.
- Comprehensive understanding of effective, current and emerging practices, issues, insights, tactics, and trends in strategic sourcing, inventory management, forecasting, vendor/supplier relationships, and supply chain management.
- In-depth understanding and experience managing indirect procurement, such as; transportation, real estate, information technology, HR, etc.
- Must be able to promote a service-oriented culture that enables strong vendor/supplier relationship management while providing exceptional support and services as a true business partner to various stakeholders.
- Strong sense of urgency and excellent business judgement. Proven ability to make decisions under pressure that have significant impacts on budgets and performance of projects and business operations.
Ontario Power Generation
700 University Ave
Toronto
Ontario Canada
www.opg.com