Senior Manager, Technology Sourcing

Requisition ID: 179106

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Senior Manager is responsible for leading Bank-wide Technology Sourcing and project activities while working closely with senior business unit leadership and other sourcing leaders. The Senior Manager will collaborate with senior business unit leadership and sourcing leaders in pursuit of improvements in quality, innovation, and service levels. The Senior Manager will have the opportunity to improve upon current processes with a goal of centralizing and consolidating company-wide supplier selection. By contributing to a competitive marketplace, the Senior Manager will consistently drive reductions in the total cost of goods and services procured.

Accountabilities

• Lead Top-to-Top Supplier Meetings for enterprise suppliers
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
• Contribute to a disciplined effort to influence spend and drive cost savings across all business segments
• Lead business value through the development of high quality and cost effective supply relationships, while pursuing and championing total cost of ownership (TCO) savings directly by savings captured through leveraging Bank-wide purchasing volume, strategic supplier relationships, demand management or indirect savings realized by driving innovation and or enhancing the overall effectiveness of the supply management process
• Manage category within and across the Bank’s business segments, and serve as a key contributor to a well-developed and evolving supplier management process
• Support consistent application of procurement processes across constituent groups
• Champions a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates team members by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team
• Establish and develop on-going strategic relationships with key suppliers during major sourcing/project initiatives
• Track sourcing initiatives for multi-functional stakeholder teams, ensuring effective strategy development, market assessments, RFP processes, contract and supplier negotiation, and supplier management while enabling collaboration and innovation between stakeholders and suppliers
• Directly lead and implement best practices in sourcing initiatives
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct
• Proactively work with the Business Line VMOs and contract owners to understand business needs, business strategy, and pipeline of contract renewals to build an overall supplier contract strategy (consolidate and reduce contracts where opportunity exists)
• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
• Develop relationships with IT leaders to support enterprise objectives, influence key stakeholders and jointly develop strategic sourcing strategies while collaborating on sourcing initiatives and projects
• Collaborate with Business Unit and Operations leaders to fully understand key business drivers, spend drivers, and achieve required support levels
• Act as the issues/incident escalation point for the supplier that may have an enterprise wide impact or not resolved at the business level

Education And Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of emerging IT and related architecture
• Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with global stakeholder groups. Superior interpersonal and communication skills, exhibits a high level of professionalism
• Knowledgeable in financial services and regulations (e.g., OSFI, OCC, CFPB, UDAAP) and how they are applied to Third Party relationships is preferred
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and comfort in speaking with senior leaders at the Bank
• Ability to comprehend complex technical and financial issues and use them to inform the creation of effective action plans and supplier strategies
• Excellent change-leadership and conflict resolution management as well as advanced problem solving skills
• Minimum of 5-10 years progressive sourcing experience
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills
• Bachelor’s degree in management, business, or related field; master (MA or MSc) in business or engineering, CIS, science, or finance an asset
• Global sourcing experience including technology services-related expertise
• CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager) preferred
• Ability to bridge communications between Sourcing, IT, business and legal stakeholders/partners with a focus on developing an understanding of how to structure contracts to deliver against bank’s needs
• Knowledge and experience with state-of-the-art procurement and analysis technologies

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

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