Please note: This role has been filled by Argentus. We are leaving it posted temporarily to advise all interested applicants about its status.
Argentus has been engaged by a fantastic new client on a set of impactful procurement roles (industry confidential). This company boasts an extremely well-known brand and a world-renowned supply chain function, and is known as an excellent place to work and a great place to build your procurement career with a top-flight team of contributors. This client also offers an excellent benefits package, including profit sharing and flexible benefits.
Today, they have engaged Argentus on a search for 3 Procurement Specialists—in this case for their Transportation, Logistics & DC CapEx category!
This role will work on a hybrid basis at the company’s office in Midtown Toronto, ON or in Mississauga, ON on a permanent full-time basis, with a mandate to support the company’s indirect procurement team for the key categories of Transportation, Logistics, and Capital Expenditure (CapEx) projects for the company’s Distribution Centre sites, including LTL, FTL, Flatbed transportation as well as crowdsourced transportation. Working within this assigned spend category, you will provide sourcing and end-to-end procurement with the goal of mitigating risk and improving price, quality, delivery and payment terms to build total value for the organization. You will work within the company’s cloud Procurement platforms including Ariba and SAP to execute sourcing events, and use reporting tools to identify key insights about procurement spend for these categories. You will manage multiple concurrent procurement projects, identifying key milestones in the process and managing timelines to best meet the needs of stakeholders in the business.
This is a fantastic growth opportunity for an emerging procurement professional with solid indirect procurement experience under their belt. At least 1-3 years of procurement experience is a must for this role, including experience working in Transportation, Logistics and/or DC Projects as a procurement category. A LTL, FTL, Flatbed and other transportation modes is a must for this role, with a good understanding of common rates and surcharges for these services. The successful candidates need to have excellent communications and relationship-building skills, as well as strong critical thinking skills and attention to detail. So if you’re a procurement professional with solid logistics and transportation category experience under your belt, reach out to Argentus today! Send an email to recruit@argentus.com with your current resume, outlining your background in Procurement in at least one of the above categories.
Please note: We regret that only candidates already located in Canada are eligible to apply. This capsule job description is meant to give prospective candidates an overview of the role. A full job description is available upon request.