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Responsibilities:• Create and maintain comprehensive category strategies based on category historic spend, top suppliers, marketplace intelligence, new entrants, disruptors, issues, gaps, opportunities, innovations, new products, industry trends, competitive intelligence, commercial models, delivery models, best practices, business direction, budget requirements and other factors.• Take full end-to-end ownership of the overarching and integrated spend category strategy to drive category transformation and short / medium / long term saving targets.• Act as the primary interface to key category business stakeholders.• Provide category leadership and direction to business partners and the Sourcing & Supplier Management team.• Influence the business with respect to gaining buy-in and alignment on the category strategy.• Drive relationships with key suppliers.• Identify cost savings objectives for the category and drive the total cost of ownership reductions.• Aggregate demand to leverage Rogers’ scale and scope to drive standardization and cost savings.• Ensure procurement cost saving challenges are built into the capital and operating budgets and Procurement’s projects and efforts are aligned to meet budget expectations.• Ensure procurement projects and savings are tracked against the budget and targets.• Manage the analysis of spend data to assist with the identification of sourcing and cost take-out opportunities.• Assist in additional analytical related activities including but not limited to compliance, catalogue adoption rates, procurement metrics and dashboards, etc. Mandatory Skills: EXCEL (5), Negotiations (5) Please send your resume to paul.dusome@randstad.ca AdvantagesMandatory Skills: EXCEL (5), Negotiations (5) Current or previous experience in the Telecommunications industry. ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities:• Create and maintain comprehensive category strategies based on category historic spend, top suppliers, marketplace intelligence, new entrants, disruptors, issues, gaps, opportunities, innovations, new products, industry trends, competitive intelligence, commercial models, delivery models, best practices, business direction, budget requirements and other factors.• Take full end-to-end ownership of the overarching and integrated spend category strategy to drive category transformation and short / medium / long term saving targets.• Act as the primary interface to key category business stakeholders.• Provide category leadership and direction to business partners and the Sourcing & Supplier Management team.• Influence the business with respect to gaining buy-in and alignment on the category strategy.• Drive relationships with key suppliers.• Identify cost savings objectives for the category and drive the total cost of ownership reductions.• Aggregate demand to leverage Rogers’ scale and scope to drive standardization and cost savings.• Ensure procurement cost saving challenges are built into the capital and operating budgets and Procurement’s projects and efforts are aligned to meet budget expectations.• Ensure procurement projects and savings are tracked against the budget and targets.• Manage the analysis of spend data to assist with the identification of sourcing and cost take-out opportunities.• Assist in additional analytical related activities including but not limited to compliance, catalogue adoption rates, procurement metrics and dashboards, etc. Mandatory Skills: EXCEL (5), Negotiations (5) Please send your resume to paul.dusome@randstad.ca QualificationsMin 5 years of experience in negotiations.Min 5 years of experience with MS Office including Excel. SummaryResponsibilities:• Create and maintain comprehensive category strategies based on category historic spend, top suppliers, marketplace intelligence, new entrants, disruptors, issues, gaps, opportunities, innovations, new products, industry trends, competitive intelligence, commercial models, delivery models, best practices, business direction, budget requirements and other factors.• Take full end-to-end ownership of the overarching and integrated spend category strategy to drive category transformation and short / medium / long term saving targets.• Act as the primary interface to key category business stakeholders.• Provide category leadership and direction to business partners and the Sourcing & Supplier Management team.• Influence the business with respect to gaining buy-in and alignment on the category strategy.• Drive relationships with key suppliers.• Identify cost savings objectives for the category and drive the total cost of ownership reductions.• Aggregate demand to leverage Rogers’ scale and scope to drive standardization and cost savings.• Ensure procurement cost saving challenges are built into the capital and operating budgets and Procurement’s projects and efforts are aligned to meet budget expectations.• Ensure procurement projects and savings are tracked against the budget and targets.• Manage the analysis of spend data to assist with the identification of sourcing and cost take-out opportunities.• Assist in additional analytical related activities including but not limited to compliance, catalogue adoption rates, procurement metrics and dashboards, etc. Mandatory Skills: EXCEL (5), Negotiations (5) Please send your resume to paul.dusome@randstad.ca Randstad Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce reflective of the diversity of Canada. 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