Contract Supervisor

at  CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES CNL

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself acting as a liaison and primary interface accountable for balancing relevant corporate, functional requirements and governance with the delivery needs and priorities of the project or mission? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! Functionally reporting to a Supply Chain Manager and the Team Leader? The Supply Chain provides leadership and oversight related to Procurement and / or Contract Management activities covering a potential wide range of scope type, complexity and risk. The incumbent must be versed in both pre and post contract management activities.

What you will be doing!

• Leading a team of Supply Chain Staff/Contractors in both pre and post contract management activities covering a potential wide range of scope type, complexity and risk.
• Ensuring appropriate resource capability and capacity within their team and that resources are allocated to procurements commensurate to the risk, value and complexity.
• Promoting and ensuring a customer service orientated approach to delivery requirements with recognition of relevant constraints, timelines and budgets.
• Collaborating with internal customers, other Contract Leads and stakeholders to identifying procurement demand, developing CNL’s Procurement Plan and devises long-term development strategies for respective contracting portfolio.
• Performing analysis and diagnostics to determine industry and consumer trends, including, spend profile and demand forecasting that supports market profiling and strategic planning.
• Managing, facilitating, conducting, and supporting the end to end procurement lifecycle (pre and post contract) and those undertaken by their team, in accordance with Supply Chain Policy, Management Control Procedures and other relevant CNL Policy and Procedures, including:
• Effective Procurement Planning and Strategy Development
• Ensuring appropriate team and stakeholders identifying and engaged to support the procurement
• Appropriating market engagement activities, bidder listing and Qualification of Suppliers is performed
• Designing, Drafting and management of solicitations
• Evaluating and Selecting of Contractors/Suppliers
• Evaluating and responding to clarifications, complaints, challenges and disputes
• Negotiation of agreements and other relevant commercial matters
• Contractor onboarding, relationship management, administration and performance management/oversight, including appropriate financial, change and risk management.
• Contracting close out, liabilities management, lessons learned
• Ensuring appropriate contemporaneous records are maintained
• Working with stakeholders and staff in providing authoritative advice and recommendations on appropriate individual contract strategies and process, including the merits of various options and approaches to deliver the intended outcome of procurement, deliver best value and mitigate risk to CNL, whilst ensuring the application of lessons learned are applied.
• Liaises and works with other functional groups including, Quality Assurance, Safety, Finance, as required throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Reviewing/Authorizing procurement documentation and commitments in accordance with delegated authority.
• Working with and seek appropriate advice from CNL Legal in determination of contract risks, insurances, conflict of interest, appropriate contract models, and potential disputes.
• Ensuring that structured and trusted relationship with contractor’s vendors has been established to realize intended benefits (including price and quality) and establishes objective contracts performance measures and reporting within their portfolio.
• Developing exit or improvement strategies for underperforming or unsuccessful contracts.
• Seeking and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement within the Supply Chain Function and contributes to functional initiatives.
• Providing training, coaching, mentoring and appropriate feedback to team members on Supply Chain arrangements and performance.
• Ensuring effective ongoing communication and reporting to internal customers and Supply Chain function as required for all activities within portfolio including progress and performance against schedule/targets and other measures which may have been agreed.
• Responding to situations to contain/ mitigate short to mid-term risk within team in accordance with procedures
• Moderating risk to team; limited checks and balances on work.
• Identifying and recommending improvements to moderately complex processes that affect own area and others/POSITION DESCRIPTION OFFICIAL USE ONLY clients; implements improvements to processes in own area and related areas/ works with clients to implement.
• Encouraging/ supporting innovation among others, extending to related areas
• Provide input on corporate scale change

• Leading a team of Supply Chain Staff/Contractors in both pre and post contract management activities covering a potential wide range of scope type, complexity and risk.
• Ensuring appropriate resource capability and capacity within their team and that resources are allocated to procurements commensurate to the risk, value and complexity.
• Promoting and ensuring a customer service orientated approach to delivery requirements with recognition of relevant constraints, timelines and budgets.
• Collaborating with internal customers, other Contract Leads and stakeholders to identifying procurement demand, developing CNL’s Procurement Plan and devises long-term development strategies for respective contracting portfolio.
• Performing analysis and diagnostics to determine industry and consumer trends, including, spend profile and demand forecasting that supports market profiling and strategic planning.
• Managing, facilitating, conducting, and supporting the end to end procurement lifecycle (pre and post contract) and those undertaken by their team, in accordance with Supply Chain Policy, Management Control Procedures and other relevant CNL Policy and Procedures, including:
• Effective Procurement Planning and Strategy Development
• Ensuring appropriate team and stakeholders identifying and engaged to support the procurement
• Appropriating market engagement activities, bidder listing and Qualification of Suppliers is performed
• Designing, Drafting and management of solicitations
• Evaluating and Selecting of Contractors/Suppliers
• Evaluating and responding to clarifications, complaints, challenges and disputes
• Negotiation of agreements and other relevant commercial matters
• Contractor onboarding, relationship management, administration and performance management/oversight, including appropriate financial, change and risk management.
• Contracting close out, liabilities management, lessons learned
• Ensuring appropriate contemporaneous records are maintained
• Working with stakeholders and staff in providing authoritative advice and recommendations on appropriate individual contract strategies and process, including the merits of various options and approaches to deliver the intended outcome of procurement, deliver best value and mitigate risk to CNL, whilst ensuring the application of lessons learned are applied.
• Liaises and works with other functional groups including, Quality Assurance, Safety, Finance, as required throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Reviewing/Authorizing procurement documentation and commitments in accordance with delegated authority.
• Working with and seek appropriate advice from CNL Legal in determination of contract risks, insurances, conflict of interest, appropriate contract models, and potential disputes.
• Ensuring that structured and trusted relationship with contractor’s vendors has been established to realize intended benefits (including price and quality) and establishes objective contracts performance measures and reporting within their portfolio.
• Developing exit or improvement strategies for underperforming or unsuccessful contracts.
• Seeking and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement within the Supply Chain Function and contributes to functional initiatives.
• Providing training, coaching, mentoring and appropriate feedback to team members on Supply Chain arrangements and performance.
• Ensuring effective ongoing communication and reporting to internal customers and Supply Chain function as required for all activities within portfolio including progress and performance against schedule/targets and other measures which may have been agreed.
• Responding to situations to contain/ mitigate short to mid-term risk within team in accordance with procedures
• Moderating risk to team; limited checks and balances on work.
• Identifying and recommending improvements to moderately complex processes that affect own area and others/POSITION DESCRIPTION OFFICIAL USE ONLY clients; implements improvements to processes in own area and related areas/ works with clients to implement.
• Encouraging/ supporting innovation among others, extending to related areas
• Provide input on corporate scale chang