About This Role

Buyer, Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS), Direct Procurement

Passionate about your field? Looking for a work environment where you can innovate, reach greater heights, and collaborate with experts from a wide range of sectors? Want to join a world‑class company and industry leader and be proud to contribute to our projects and mission? Come share your passion with us!

At CAE, our Global Strategic Sourcing teams are creative and have considerable business acumen. Sound like you? That’s why we need your expertise and passion to complete our team!

The role we are offering you:

Buyer is responsible for Category Strategy, Strategic Sourcing, Critical Supplier Management and Stakeholder Management for assigned sub-categories. He/she will develop long-term strategies aligned with key stakeholders within the Organization.  The individual will also be accountable for managing critical suppliers, strategic sourcing in collaboration with the Category and the Value Stream Manager, monitoring and evaluating and improving supplier performance, developing the supplier base and conducting research to support the category strategy. 

By joining our Global Strategic Sourcing team, you will have the opportunity to participate in exciting sourcing and process improvement opportunities to support delivery of CAE strategic vision.  Collaborating and working alongside our CORE team, you will identify, analyze, evaluate the right vendors, right technology, and support the growth of CAE.

Key responsibilities and expectations include:

• Develops, communicates, and executes strategies and objectives for the worldwide sourcing of goods and services.
• Leads formulation and implementation of category strategies. Identifies and conducts cross-functional cost reduction initiatives on sourced products.
• Conducts market intelligence to identifies opportunities and channel innovation. Provides expert recommendations to internal stakeholders. Collaborate closely and deploy strategy with the category vendor manager. Develops and manages supplier relationships.
• Execution of the strategy developed by commodity, through a collaborative and inclusive approach with all Business Unit Stakeholders.
• Promotion and communication of the sourcing strategy for assigned categories to the Category Manger and Value Stream Manager Also, development of and/or contribution to an action plan to evolve sourcing into a strategic business function.
• Identification of cost optimization opportunities across the company and presentation of concise recommendations/plans to management.
• Purchase goods, materials, and commodities to ensure that production operational needs are met, considering price, quality, delivery lead times, supplier penalties and ensuring continuity of supply.  These tasks include, sending RFQs, placing orders, expediting, and returning non confirmed parts.  Managing invoice discrepancies.
• Perform multi-supplier RFQs/RFIs
• Negotiate and challenge supplier pricing, payment terms and delivery lead times as required
• Create and maintain blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and catalogs as the purchase-to-pay (P2P) processes super user, guide suppliers and stakeholders alike whilst enforcing CAE purchasing policies

Our Ideal candidate has:

• Either college diploma (or equivalent) with min 3years of experience
• Strong negotiation skills
• Relationship building skills.
• Excellent task and project management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and good presentation skills in English and French.
• Ability to manage geographically dispersed vendors.

Good assets:

• Knowledge of the aviation market and its procurement process.
• Experience with Ariba, both Source to Contract (S2C) and Procure to Pay (P2P) and Oracle

CAE offers:

• An environment where your initiatives will be acknowledged and valued.
• The opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team.
• Hybrid work model and flexible vacation.
• Attractive employee benefits.
• Horizontal Leadership and ability to coach analysts and other junior members of the team.

Ready to share your passion for your work? Don’t wait, apply now!

With over 10,000 employees located in 35 countries, CAE is a global leader in training for the civil aviation and defense and security. To learn more: www.cae.com

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CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

CAE is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As "One CAE," we take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, Veteran status, age, or other legally protected characteristics.  

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the job posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please get in touch with us at rh-hr@cae.com.