**Location:**Ottawa, ON, CA

Job Requisition Id: 197252
Business Function: Sourcing Management
Primary City: Ottawa
Province: Ontario
Employment Type: Full-Time
Employment Status: Permanent
Language Requirement: English Essential
Employee Class and Level: UPCET02
Number of Vacancies: 1
Job Closing Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2026-04-22

Job Description

The Officer, Purchasing is responsible and accountable for leading, planning, conducting and controlling all aspects of procurement initiatives and activities under their signing authority and ensures these activities are in compliance with legal requirements.

Job Responsibilities

Below are the main job requirements and responsibilities for the Officer, Purchasing.

• Initiates and conducts planning with client groups, leads cross-functional teams in the supplier sourcing/contracting process and prepares and issues NAFTA and RFP/RFQ documents.

• Chairs supplier clarification meetings, co-ordinates clarification responses, and ensures evaluation criteria are complete and valid.

• Leads and conducts proposal evaluation, evaluates and analyzes complex corporate requirements to ensure lowest life cycle costs are met.

• Plans and prepares purchasing strategy for negotiations by analyzing the general economic and financial information available and summarizes complex discussions into appropriate mathematical model.

• Conducts negotiations for the acquisition of goods and/or services, negotiating cost-effective solutions, mitigating risks, preparing, evaluating and negotiating contract terms, conditions and pricing within strict timeframes and developing contracts and related support documentation ensuring fully defined conditions.

Job Responsibilities (continued)

• Seeks input/support from client group and budget holder to ensure mutual understanding and agreement with negotiation approach and corporate targets.

• Chairs bidder conferences; implements corporate policies, procedures and quality control standards, prepares business briefings to respond to management, supplier debriefings and potential legal challenges from suppliers; awards contract to successful supplier/contractor and notifies the unsuccessful, and develops contract documents.

• Ensures supplier performance and all elements of the goods and/or services are delivered in accordance with the statement of requirements and/or specifications.

• Monitors contract deliverables, ensure that all elements of the goods or services are delivered in accordance with the scope of work, identifies and resolves issues, between the supplier and the clients and terminates contracts for non-compliance of contractual obligations.

• Educates and interprets procurement policies and procedures to clients, identifies and recommends changes, negotiates procurement timelines with clients and suppliers, analyzes and identifies opportunities to increase efficiencies, improve service and reduce costs

Qualifications

Education

• A University or College degree/diploma in a related field.

Experience

• 2-5 years of related work experience is required.

Other Candidate Requirements

• PMAC CSCMP certification or working toward certification would be an asset.

Other Information

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge

• Experience in Professional Services procurement would be an asset.

• Experience in Public Sector Procurement and Procurement related contract law would be an asset.

• Experience working on and leading end-to-end procurement activities for complex/strategic/high value requirements, involving solicitation, evaluations, contract terms and conditions negotiations, contract award and supplier debriefings.

• Experience working with SAP Ariba.

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to act as a procurement subject matter expert for the applicable client function and apply organizational awareness and knowledge of Canada Post products, services, and processes to achieve service excellence.

• Must possess superior written and verbal communication skills including preparing and delivering effective presentations.

• Skilled in the preparation and completion of Procurement Plans.

• Initiates, conducts, plans and manages critical milestones on procurement projects to ensure that timelines are met for: re-procurements, new procurements and future procurements with client groups.

• Experienced in the preparation, negotiation and execution of contracts. Ability to lead negotiations for the acquisition of goods and/or services, negotiating cost-effective solutions, mitigating risks, evaluating and negotiating contract terms and conditions and pricing within strict timeframes and developing contracts and related support documentation ensuring fully defined conditions.

• Experienced in issuing and evaluating RFPs, RFIs, RFQs and Tenders. Leads, conducts and/or facilitates proposal evaluations, to ensure fairness, transparency and no bias to achieve the Procurement objective and best value proposition for the Corporation.

Personal Suitability

• Effective interpersonal skills
• Initiative, reliability and conscientiousness
• Good judgment, tact and discretion
• Dedicated and a quick learner who adapts well to changes
• Ability to effectively resolve issues

Canada Post’s values and behaviours

Our Values - Trust, Respect and Deliver represent our fundamental promise to ourselves, our expectations of one and another and our shared duty to our country.

Our behaviours – Make the call, Know the destination, Deliver for others, Ignite our pride; embody our values, bringing them to life and guiding our actions.

We’re committed to living these values and practicing these behaviours every day. Learn more about the values and behaviours by visiting the Canada Post website.

All qualified candidates will be considered however preference will be given to Indigenous People (First Nations, Metis or Inuit) or Persons with disabilities. This is a special measure employment equity initiative and candidates from this group who wish to qualify for preferential consideration must self-identify.

Accessibility

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Employment Equity

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