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Cargojet is Canada's leading provider of time-sensitive overnight air cargo services and carries over 1,300,000 pounds of cargo each business night. Cargojet operates its network across North America each business night, utilizing a fleet of all-cargo aircraft Cargojet has been awarded one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies as well as being awarded the Shipper’s Choice Award for the best Air Cargo Carrier in Canada for the past number of years. Being part of Cargojet will allow you to become a part of a diverse and vibrant family at the leading edge of the air cargo industry both domestically and internationally. Cargojet team members are dedicated, hardworking, and have a strong sense of leadership and commitment.
Primary Objective of the Position:
The Specialist, Procurement is responsible for strategic sourcing and procurement of various categories like IT, professional services, logistics, facilities, office supplies etc. across Cargojet's network. This is a hands-on role that requires the ability to perform administrative activities, including purchase order creation, document drafting, and data creation and analysis, alongside strategic responsibilities. This role negotiates vendor contracts, manages supplier relationships, optimizes total cost of ownership, ensuring compliance & quality standards are met.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement:
• Utilize various category management levers to develop and execute strategic sourcing strategies for IT (hardware, software, cloud services, IT consulting), logistics, facility, office supplies, professional services etc.
• Drive Supplier consolidation efforts to optimize supplier base, ensuring cost efficiency and long-term value.
• Act as a change agent within the procurement organization, challenging the status quo, driving improvements and fostering value creation.
Vendor Management & Contract Negotiation:
• Manage end-to-end sourcing processes, including market analysis, supplier selection, RFQs, RFPs, quote analysis, contract negotiation and performance management
• Establish master service agreements with vendors for facility management services like janitorial, security, landscaping, building systems, preventive maintenance and IT subscriptions renewals etc.
• Conduct supplier performance reviews monitoring delivery, quality, pricing, and service responsiveness
• Manage vendor qualification processes ensuring suppliers meet quality, safety, and compliance standards
• Lead the overall supplier relationship strategy for spend areas, ensuring proper commercial treatment of suppliers by reinforcing policy, ethics and our strategic approach with suppliers and with other company departments
Cost Optimization & Financial Management:
• Analyze the spend data to identify the cost saving opportunities
• Implement cost reduction initiatives through competitive bidding, identifying opportunities to consolidate similar goods and services under fewer suppliers, long term agreements, vendor rationalization, redefining scope and strategic negotiations
• Prepare summary & recommendation on supplier(s) to be awarded focusing on the total cost of ownership, cost savings, efficiencies and added value
• Track procurement savings and cost avoidance reporting results to senior management
• Partner with Finance on purchase order management, invoice reconciliation, and payment terms optimization
Supplier Quality & Compliance:
• Maintain approved vendor list (AVL) of suppliers ensuring qualified sources for critical parts and services
• Evaluate and measure supplier performance on category specific parameters, inform the senior management of non-compliance and participate in the remediation actions.
• Ensure suppliers meet quality standards and comply with regulatory requirements.
Contract Management, Facility Management, Repairs & Renewals:
• Maintain the database of contracts & agreements, ensure the monitoring and renewal of future contracts for services like for janitorial, security, landscaping, building systems, preventive maintenance, IT subscriptions etc.
• Reviewing existing terms to renegotiate pricing, service levels, and KPIs to ensure they still meet business goals.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Improvement:
• Partner with Manager Procurement-Stations & HO on various day-to-day procurement activities with direct administrative involvement
• Collaborate with the Legal team on contractual terms and conditions to ensure compliance, and risk mitigations
• Coordinate with Station Managers on local supplier relationships and any facility related requirements
• Optimize procurement workflows in SAP S/4HANA ensuring efficient requisition-to-payment processes
• Establish KPI dashboards monitoring procurement cycle times, cost savings, and supplier performance
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 5 years of strategic sourcing experience with at least 3 years in IT (hardware, software, cloud services, IT consulting) & facility categories; aviation industry experience preferred
- Advanced Excel skills performing pivot tables, cost models, detailed comparisons, scenario analysis.
- Proven track record negotiating complex contracts with suppliers achieving measurable cost savings
- Demonstrated expertise in strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier relationship management
- Demonstrated ability to organize, control, and coordinate various activities in a fast-faced and ever-changing environment
- Has personal attributes like- team player, sense of urgency, resourceful, time management, integrity
- Proficiency with SAP S/4HANA or equivalent ERP procurement modules
- Strong financial acumen including budget management, total cost of ownership modeling, and ROI analysis
- Excellent communication skills with strong analytical abilities and mathematical aptitude
- Proven leadership capabilities building and developing procurement teams
- Ability to travel occasionally to vendor sites and stations (up to 15%)
Important to Know:
- Cargojet is an equal-opportunity employer. We thank you for your interest. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
- We are committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.
- At Cargojet, we make safety the highest priority. Because of this priority and as we operate in a safety-sensitive environment, we require all employees to abstain from consuming Cannabis, in and outside of the workplace. This is a critical element of our drug and alcohol policy that all employees must comply with at all times.
- Team members interested in the position must submit their application through the internal recruitment system by the specified deadline. Applications submitted after the deadline will be considered late and will not be reviewed.
