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Job Description
Manager of Vendor Management & Procurement - Central Services
Job Location
Calgary
Practice Group/Department
Role
Business Services
Job Title
Manager of Vendor Management & Procurement - Central Services
Work Type
Full Time
Description
Hybrid work schedule - Please note that this position
can also be filled in any of our offices across Canada
Managing global and multi-regional suppliers is an
essential factor in the success of Norton Rose Fulbright. The
manager of vendor management & procurement will be required to
lead the strategic sourcing and procurement across a total spend of
approximately $150m, and growing.
You will be focusing on:
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Work closely with the regional leads of the vendor
management and/or procurement teams to ensure a consistent and
standardized approach to all processes and policies implemented,
and tools adopted
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Innovate the direction of the function to ensure
continued alignment to the strategic priorities of the firm and
market standards (for example ESG)
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Lead with vision in improving centralized procurement
to be faster, more efficient and have an increased element of automation
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Manage and maintain the structure of the function's
processes and data including, but not limited to:
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Contract Database
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Benefits Tracker
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Work In Progress Tracker
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Methodologies, Policies & Processes
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Vendor Categorisation & Governance Frameworks
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Work closely with the C-suite management to highlight
areas of improvement, business risk, and any performance issues
with suppliers
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Work closely with a variety of senior stakeholders,
including finance, legal, data protection, security and IT to
maintain adherence to standards in procuring goods and services
for the firm
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Improve general reporting from the function
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Play an active role in the budgeting process both
globally and across the five member firms
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Build insights to key strategic vendors to build NRF
intelligence and develop supplier strategies
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Own the relationships for a mix of strategic and
transactional suppliers, including their overall performance.
Information must be collated in order to provide a holistic view
of supplier performance to brief Norton Rose Fulbright
stakeholders and as input to governance meetings
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Adhere to agreed supplier governance / chair regular
supplier relationship management governance meetings to ensure any
supplier relationship, delivery, quality or commercial issues are
highlighted and resolved
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Manage against budget, including authorizing spend
against that budget, tracking actual spend to provide good
financial control over commercial performance
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Understand the key cost drivers behind supplier
invoices and review supplier invoices for accuracy (and approve /
reject as appropriate) in order to ensure suppliers are billing
accurately and in line with contract
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Drive supplier innovation, cost reduction and
performance improvement in order to maximize the value from
supplier relationships over and above contractual commitments
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Manage supplier commercial issues and negotiate their
settlement to avoid escalation of such commercial issues into
legal dispute
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Own the negotiation of all contracts that are global
and/or multi-regional
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Be the firm's contact person for any client audit
requests in regards to third-party contracts
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Manage a team to:
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Maintain supplier documentation, including
ensuring contract changes, reports, notices and relevant
supporting materials are stored with controlled access
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Drive actions, minutes, management pack
preparation and associated execution from the vendor and
internal governance forums
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Model contracted charges, including contract
changes to provide accurate forecasts of spend, total cost of
ownership, contract cost to complete, phasing of spend, build
of detailed budgets
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Manage end to end in-life contract changes for
strategic suppliers in close collaboration with global and
regional procurement teams as appropriate
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Financial management of strategic suppliers
managing indexation / foreign exchange variation, rate card
validation and change
What you bring to the role:
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5+ years experience of management of multi-million
dollar outsourced IT supplier relationships. Experience within
legal services or professional services organizations preferable
but not essential
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A degree in commercial management or procurement
would be beneficial
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Ability to build strong trusting relationships with
business partners and suppliers
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Experience building collaborative environments,
teaming cultures, and with engaging executives in the strategy
development and financial management processes
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Demonstrated experience in problem-solving, consensus
building, and negotiation
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Strong commercial awareness alongside risk management
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Knowledge of contract law and IT Service Delivery
Management (ITIL) preferred but not essential.
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Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, in particular
data manipulation in Excel and presentation build in PowerPoint
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Experience of working in a global company and global
capacity and the associated complexity on stakeholder management
preferred but not essential
Ready to join a proactive and modern firm that provides an
exceptional career experience in an inclusive and collaborative
environment? Come join us!
As a global law firm, we embrace a culture of excellence and working
hard, but always with a focus on flexibility, respect, diversity and
openness. We strive to create an equitable, inclusive environment
where everyone can bring their whole self to work and realize their
career potential.
To find out more about how we integrate diversity, equity and
inclusion in everything we do please click https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-ca/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion.
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reasonable adjustments during the recruiting process, please contact
CANCALHR_RH@nortonrosefulbright.com
to further discuss your needs.
Please note that applicants who receive an employment offer may be
required during their employment with Norton Rose Fulbright to provide
proof of vaccinations recommended from time to time by government or
public health authorities. Norton Rose Fulbright has a duty to
accommodate those who are unable to get vaccinated due to protected
grounds. For applicants who require an accommodation, please contact
CANCALHR_RH@nortonrosefulbright.com
to discuss further.
We thank all candidates for their applications, but please note that
we will be contacting only those whom we invite for an interview.
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