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Position Title: Buyer II

Client: Confidential (Multinational company, headquartered in Calgary. Operate in the Oil & Gas Pipeline and Renewable Energy sector. Longest pipeline system in North America, and largest oil export pipeline in the world. Trades on New York and Toronto Stock exchanges.

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Job Type:Full-Time Contract (1 Year)

Start Date: June 6th 2023, End Date: June 4th^th 2024

Workplace Setting: Hybrid

Pay Rate: $25 - $30/ Hour

Responsibilities:

• Executes the complete procurement process from preparing all aspects of competitive bids through to, commercial evaluation, recommendations, and purchase order issuance. Ensure compliance with purchasing procedures and that user requirements are met.

• Develop, negotiate, and assist in the execution of supplier agreement.

• Obtains optimized pricing and cost-efficient methods to assist in company- wide cost saving measures.

• Research sources of supply, review sole source validity and determine methods of procurement action.

• Negotiates with suppliers the terms and conditions, pricing, delivery, payment terms, cancellation charges, liquidated damages clauses, warranty, scope of work and change orders as required.

• Evaluates supplier performance and addresses inefficiencies as required via feedback loop in Maximo

• Maintains records in accordance with established policies and procedure, and audit guidelines/Sox requirements.

• Issues and approves purchase orders per ASL.

• Investigates and facilitates issue resolution relative to procurement activities as requested

• Acts as a liaison between project managers and/or consultants and suppliers. (prior to issuance of order)

• Researches and implements cost saving initiatives.

• Mentors, guides and trains department staff or end user department personnel as required.

• Understands and participates in Supply Chain Management Department team initiatives.

• Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of market conditions and industry trends relating to SCM as it pertains to their category

• Other duties as assigned

• Oracle Cloud ERP experience

• High volume of requisitions buying material in support of Operations and Projects.

Qualifications:

·Post- secondary education (Purchasing / Supply Chain Management, B-Comm., Finance, Business Admin,)

·Four or more years of procurement experience

·Experienced user of Oracle. (Oracle cloud preferably).

Additional Comments:

·This is to replace a contractor who moved on to a new role

·Strong possibility of extensions

·Material buying (receiving requisitions, creating POs, placing orders)

·Using Oracle Cloud therefore someone with Oracle ERP experience is an asset

·Supply chain management experience

·There is roughly a 3 month training/ramp up period

Organization skills are extremely important.People have failed due to not being organized