Senior Buyer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 53091)

Description

Looking for a challenging and impactful role where you can apply your procurement expertise? As a Senior Buyer with our team, you'll be a key player in shaping the city's future.

You will independently manage procurements for projects of varying complexity, from office supplies to major infrastructure initiatives like recreation centers and LRT construction. Using your professional judgment, diplomacy, and strong project management skills, you will provide strategic advice to our business partners, lead the end-to-end procurement process, and ensure we get the best value for the city while maintaining transparency and integrity.

If you are a seasoned procurement professional ready to take on significant responsibility and make a tangible difference, we encourage you to apply.

What will you do? 

• Liaises and consults with business partners in assigned portfolio to proactively plan ahead for anticipated procurement activities
• Provides multifaceted advice to business partners on procurement procedures, methods, and approaches
• Advises business partners on public procurement principles and practices, trade agreements, and contract/tender law
• Collaborates, leads, and facilitates with business partners and Procurement staff to develop appropriate sourcing strategies for intermediate to high complexity and risk procurements including non-competitive, invitational, and competitive processes;
• Proactively works with business partners to promote competitive processes, where appropriate
• Reviews and/or develops specifications, requirements, description and scope of work, and recommends improvements to business partners
• Works with business partners to compose RFx documents, develop evaluation plan, criteria, weightings, process, strategies, submission and contractual requirements and manages the RFx process
• Issues and manages RFx including development and issue of addenda; deals with bidder requests for clarifications and any other issues
• Manages business partner relationship with assigned portfolio
• Performs procurement planning and prioritization to meet and manage business partners procurement needs
• Leads and facilitates meeting with business partners and suppliers
• Reviews and ensures completeness and accuracy of a variety of contract and Purchase Order documentation and approves within delegated concurrence or forwards to more senior concurrence and/or delegated authority, as required
• Other related responsibilities