Procurement Buyer - employment career Canada

Job title: Procurement Buyer Job
Location: Markham, ONTARIO, CA
Deadline: Jul 30, 2013
Job no:13010091

Job: Finance
Schedule: Full-time
Description
American Express Canada is a company with a long history and a bright future. A Canadian employer since 1853, Amex has created a culture that nurtures extraordinary talent and turns careers into unparalleled experiences. A company where every employee is given the opportunity to learn, grow and excel, Amex is always on the lookout for driven, forward-thinking and creative people ready to take their career to the next level. So, if you share our passion for excellence, our dedication to great service and our excitement about innovation, there’s a world of opportunity waiting for you in a career with American Express Canada.

This position is accountable for supporting cost effective procurement/contracting of products and services while achieving or exceeding customer and business requirements.
Responsibilities include:
- Procurement activities for several commodities, supporting customers of all major business units across a broad geographic area, on a national and worldwide basis.
- Implements the organization’s strategic and tactical plans while driving action across functions, business units and the Blue Box.
- Acts as a key cost and business management resource to the procurement organization, customer organization, and senior management across multiple functions, divisions and geographic locations.
- Leads by example to motivate cross-functional team members to achieve team objectives in supplier/market analysis, utilizing unique procurement practices/tools to capitalize on business opportunities.
- Principal responsibility for self-development in all facets of business skills, processes, and procurement contractual knowledge/application to support business unit, national, or worldwide business/commodity strategies as well as complex contracts and negotiations.

Qualifications
- 3 + years in Procurement experience.
- Administration, Engineering or Accounting is desirable.
- 100% English required
- Strong Knowledge of

a. RFP, RFI, RFQ Development, Implementation and Closing
b. Benchmarking
c. Reverse auction
d. Spend management and Analysis
e. E- procurement ( Such as SAP, BAAN, PS, Oracle, Ariba, e-IBM, @HP among others)
f. Procurement Competitive Intelligence
g. CBA – and Procurement SPOA methodology (or similar)
h. Cost Build-up
i. Supplier Risk assessment
j. Strategic Outsourcing (Procurement Due Diligence and Bid Implementation)
k. Procurement of Software/Licensing/Intellectual Property/Design Specific Hardware
l. Due Diligence process (Vendor Health Analysis) Dun and Bradstreet process (or similar)
m. Comprehensive knowledge of business principles such as purchasing, quality, materials logistics management, business/contract law, licensing, leasing, finance and accounting.
n. Frequent contacts with internal/external customers and other company representatives at all levels of management including senior management to negotiate complex business issues. Contacts require a balance of assertiveness, tact, and diplomacy.
o. Strong interpersonal, oral/presentation, computer, and writing skills are required to conduct daily activities. PC skills must include ability to use spreadsheet, database management and statistical applications.

It’s an exciting time to join American Express Canada, where we dedicate extensive time, resources and effort to satisfying and surprising our customers. We make that same commitment to our employees, as well, striving to create an environment where people are respected, both personally and professionally. Be part of it.
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