Position Title:
Senior Sourcing Specialist (Finance) (Telework/Hybrid)
Status of Employment:
Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
Position Language Requirement:
Language Skills:
Work at CBC/Radio-Canada
At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.
Unposting Date:
2025-09-17 11:59 PM
This role is a hybrid work arrangement. Work schedule to be discussed with the hiring Manager according to the guidelines defined by the department.
Your role
The Senior Sourcing Specialist is a member of the Supply Management sourcing team, and reports to the Director of Sourcing – Supply Management. This role will involve working collaboratively with components, teams across our business and external third parties. A solid background in category management and leading mildly complex contracts and categories for a large organization to help our business thrive in a dynamic and rapidly changing broadcast and media environment. The successful candidate will show initiative to aim and attain personal and departmental objectives with impact for its sourcing activities and the value it generates to benefit CBC; and will lead contract activities so that they are executed and documented on a day-to-day basis, in line with the global strategic plan; as well as maintain healthy relationships with suppliers.
The Senior Sourcing Specialist will demonstrate creativity & lateral thinking while exercising a sense of urgency when executing ongoing activities. He/she, will demonstrate his/her business acumen and entrepreneurial aptitudes while remaining agile and applying his/her learning agility. The candidate must be an analytical thinker and must be attentive to details. The candidate will demonstrate resilience, patience and tenacity, and understand the value of information management – telling the story in a clear fashion, taking into account cultural aspects and risk awareness.
The candidate should be proactive to go and seek added value where it is needed and uncover opportunities. The Senior Sourcing Specialist must be able to work proficiently in both French and English, and have a strong background and experience in running Sourcing Events end to end, including strategy, approach, drafting, public Procurement sourcing, evaluation, negotiations, contracting, monitoring and be willing to travel on a limited basis as required.
This is a temporary position until June 30th 2026.
We are flexible on location of the role between Toronto and Montreal.

As the Senior Sourcing Specialist, you will be responsible for:

• Operationally collaborate and contribute with your team and the Director of Sourcing to develop and deliver “best in class” strategic sourcing and leverage CBC’s position to its benefit. The candidate will bring execution of strategies for the categories falling under his / her responsibilities.
• Execute strategic sourcing and lead assigned activities for process improvement, systems, etc. and apply best practices.
• Support the communication of the vision within the team and with Components, while building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Contribute to enhancing the tools and work with the team
• Contribute to activities on category strategies and associated plans.
• Partner effectively with internal business units.
• Contribute to the efforts to redefine, transform and influence rules of engagement with Components:
• Move away from ad-hoc model to a proactive long term approach.
• Maintain a holistic view of the ongoing and upcoming projects.
• Consolidate the purchasing volume through different components.
• Focus on value creation through savings, cost avoidance, operational efficiencies, increased value for money.
• Actively increase spend under management creating additional value creation opportunities.
• Contribute to the efforts to identify incremental cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Contribute, as required, with the development of internal dashboards, benchmarks and scorecards.
• Ensure quality of service from suppliers and function is aligned with corporate expectations (SLAs; key KPIs) and adheres to and reinforces corporate policies.
• Communicate with stakeholders across corporate service lines, maintaining strong internal relationships.
• Leverage spend analysis related data to synthesize information in an understandable manner, in order to facilitate
• Management and Executive decision making process.
• Execute RFx sourcing projects as required, including Reverse auction and public tendering.
• Ensure support and monitor compliance of corporate contracts by business units.
• Assess vendors’ performance and address SLA issues and non-compliance with contracts , and make appropriate recommendations.
• Manage supplier relationships.
• Provide support to the Business for any contract issues.
• Manage the execution of the agreement.
• Monitor and communicate the status of contracts and the need to renew agreements across the portfolio of vendor relationships.

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with the following:

• 4 5 years+ sourcing experience.
• Bachelor Degree , MBA or Master in related field an asset.
• SCMA (PMAC) certification (SCMP or CPP) or equivalent would be considered an asset.
• Experience in strategic sourcing and procurement is essential.
• Good legal and contract drafting abilities.
• System and process experience.
• Very good communication and influencing skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Team player at his/her levels to collaborate with components, and sourcing team.
• General business skills, business acumen and negotiation savvy.
• General knowledge of finance and/or accounting, risk management, etc.
• Ability to understand the Corporation culture and how to best communicate procurement’s value to it.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and best practices.
• Strategic mindset and problem-solving skills.
• Change management aptitude.
• The ideal candidate will be bilingual (French and English) at a proficient level for commercial negotiation and contract drafting.
• Familiar with and capable of using various software packages, ERP software SAP & Oracle, in delivering corporate reports and projects would be considered an asset.
• Knowledge of Crown Corporations and government would be considered an asset.

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:

• A mandatory Criminal record check.
• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the
Diversity and Inclusion section
of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to
recruitment@cbc.ca
.
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our
corporate website
. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on
conflicts of interest
. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.
Primary Location:
1000, Rue Papineau, Montreal, Quebec, H2K 0C2
Number of Openings:
1
Work Schedule:
Full tim

• Operationally collaborate and contribute with your team and the Director of Sourcing to develop and deliver “best in class” strategic sourcing and leverage CBC’s position to its benefit. The candidate will bring execution of strategies for the categories falling under his / her responsibilities.
• Execute strategic sourcing and lead assigned activities for process improvement, systems, etc. and apply best practices.
• Support the communication of the vision within the team and with Components, while building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Contribute to enhancing the tools and work with the team
• Contribute to activities on category strategies and associated plans.
• Partner effectively with internal business units.
• Contribute to the efforts to redefine, transform and influence rules of engagement with Components:
• Move away from ad-hoc model to a proactive long term approach.
• Maintain a holistic view of the ongoing and upcoming projects.
• Consolidate the purchasing volume through different components.
• Focus on value creation through savings, cost avoidance, operational efficiencies, increased value for money.
• Actively increase spend under management creating additional value creation opportunities.
• Contribute to the efforts to identify incremental cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Contribute, as required, with the development of internal dashboards, benchmarks and scorecards.
• Ensure quality of service from suppliers and function is aligned with corporate expectations (SLAs; key KPIs) and adheres to and reinforces corporate policies.
• Communicate with stakeholders across corporate service lines, maintaining strong internal relationships.
• Leverage spend analysis related data to synthesize information in an understandable manner, in order to facilitate
• Management and Executive decision making process.
• Execute RFx sourcing projects as required, including Reverse auction and public tendering.
• Ensure support and monitor compliance of corporate contracts by business units.
• Assess vendors’ performance and address SLA issues and non-compliance with contracts , and make appropriate recommendations.
• Manage supplier relationships.
• Provide support to the Business for any contract issues.
• Manage the execution of the agreement.
• Monitor and communicate the status of contracts and the need to renew agreements across the portfolio of vendor relationships