Job Board Title:
Senior Procurement Officer (Hybrid)
Post Date
3/20/2025
Expiration Date
4/19/2025
Details:
Our Finance Team is
looking for a highly motivated
Senior Procurement Officer to join our team
(Hybrid - Permanent, Full-Time)
The Ontario Pension Board (OPB) administers the Public Service Pension Plan (the PSPP), a major defined benefit pension plan sponsored by the Government of Ontario. With 100,000 members and $34 billion in assets, the PSPP is one of Canada’s largest pension plans.
It is also one of the country’s oldest, successfully delivering the pension promise since the early 1920s. Learn more about OPB.
As the Senior Procurement Officer, you will provide specialized procurement services and lead end to end procurement activities for OPB.
Key Responsibilities:
• Partner with internal stakeholders to collaborate during each step of the procurement life cycle, providing recommendations, advice, strategies, and guidance on all types of procurements (usually small to extra-large procurements), and support ongoing engagement with vendors to ensure the best outcomes and that OPB has received value for money.
• Consult and collaborate with business areas in the development of procurement business cases, RFx, Vendor of Record Agreements and contracting documents.
• Provide expertise related to contract development and drafting, amendments, and change requests including the best approach to contracting aligned to the procurement strategy.
• Research, assess, and generate options to provide recommendations for course of action that will result in best value to the organization including but not limited to: RFx type and strategy (value-based procurement, rank & run, BAFO/dual-track/RO, VOR) while ensuring compliance with applicable policies, directives, and legislation.
• Guide and facilitate the development of scope, specifications, and evaluation criteria.
• In collaboration with business areas, build negotiation plans and strategies to capture least and most desired outcomes, and lead vendor negotiations.
• Prepare award recommendations; assist with drafting of contract scope; awarding contracts based upon evaluation results and notifying unsuccessful vendor(s).
• Assess, mitigate, and manage procurement risk.
• Maintain a high degree of confidentiality, sensitivity, and tact.
• Monitor contracts for expiry and proactively working with business area clients to long-term plan.
• Interpret policy and applicable legislation, applying these requirements to their assigned procurement initiatives to ensure compliance.
• Assist with training, mentoring and onboarding of business areas, procurement team or others as requested.
• Maintain accountabilities for all assigned projects, working independently within a risk management framework.
• As necessary escalate procurement issues to the manager as needed to ensure timely resolution and adherence to procurement policies.
• Develop, implement, and administer procedures for the effective monitoring and reporting of corporate compliance with procurement policies and procedures.
• In collaboration with the Manager, supports the continuous procurement process improvement initiatives.
Key qualifications:
• Experienced procurement professional that possesses full-cycle public sector procurement experience including experience with contract negotiations.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of public sector procurement principles and methods, practices and regulations, and of the tendering process including contract negotiation and post-award contracting activities.
• Strong procurement experience in IT hardware, software and services procurements as well as non-IT professional services.
• Strong project management, negotiation, verbal and written communication skills to persuade and provide advice and guidance.
• Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects, maintains accountability for work; client focused, self-motivated, helpful and responsive to requests.
• Comfortable managing a large workload, competing deadlines and changing priorities.
• Ability to prepare presentations, reports, and can advise, educate, and train employees on procurement concepts and compliance expectations in a collaborative manner.
• Solid understanding of continuous process improvement principles and practices.
• University degree either in business administration, commerce, finance, supply chain management or in a related discipline or a combination of education and work experience.
• Relevant professional designation from a recognized institute (Certified Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) or Certified Professional Public Buyer (CPPB), Certified Professional Procurement Officer (CPPO), Public Service Professional (PSPP) or certification through the National Institute of Government Procurement (NIGP) is preferred.
Please visit OPB’s Career page to apply https://opb.ca/about-opb/careers
The competition will remain open until a successful candidate is selected or until the competition is closed.
OPB is committed to providing accommodation for people with disabilities in its recruitment process.
Please advise OPB if you require an accommodation and we will work with you to meet your needs.
OPB is committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusiveness that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
We welcome and encourage applications from those who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
Candidates being considered for this position will be required to submit to a background screening.
We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Employer:
Ontario Pension Board
Website:
https://opb.ca/about-opb/careers