Senior Procurement Advisor

at  EDC

Posting Date: Feb 4, 2025, 3:53:04 PM
Primary Location: Ontario-Ottawa
Job Type: Permanent
Schedule: Full-time
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.
When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making an impact every day – for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.
Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world. #LI-Hybrid

DISCIPLINE SUMMARY

• Acts as an advisory point of contact to guide and support assigned business units to meet procurement requirements (e.g. policies, procedures, sourcing strategies, etc.) and drive customer satisfaction.
• Collaborates with assigned business units to develop annual procurement forecasts/plans.
• Evaluates, continuously supports and contributes to the development of innovative sourcing strategies and procurement transformation strategies that drive continuous improvement and client value.
• Prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services, technologies, supplies.
• Prepares bids or requests for proposals (RFPs), including specifications and requirements.
• Develops, negotiates and administers contract terms and participates in the determination of acceptable bids.
• Evaluates contract compliance and advises others on contractual rights and obligations.
• Seeks proactive resolution of contractual disputes and manages variations and claims in collaboration with business units.
• Processes amendments to contract terms or contract extensions.

• Leads the structuring of new formal and informal competitive procurement processes.
• Applies critical and strategic thinking in the identification, definition and modification of RFP’s/PRP’s/QP’s/RFQ’s/RFT’s.
• Independently advises clients throughout the entire acquisition process on procurement strategies, procedural issues, legislative regulations and industry guidelines and best practices.
• Translates client’s complex requirements into statements of work, deliverables, or other industry norms.
• Collaborates with assigned business units to provide expert Procurement advice and guidance and independently develops annual procurement forecasts/plans.
• Responsible for documenting the entire acquisition process and/or competitive procurement process and ensures for audit purposes the proper recording of all facets of the undertaking.