Senior Buyer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 49863)

Description

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, Senior Buyers are professionals who perform the full-cycle of procurement activities for all levels of complexity and risk with the majority of activities within the intermediate to high complexity range. Senior Buyers work with business partners and are responsible for providing procurement advice and leading the end-to-end procurement process. 

The Corporate Procurement team supports procurements for all City Departments, ranging from office supplies, to consulting services, to equipment and parts, to major infrastructure projects such as recreation centers and LRT construction.

What will you do?

• Liaise and consult with business partners in assigned portfolio to proactively plan ahead for anticipated procurement activities
• Provide multifaceted advice to business partners on procurement procedures, methods, and approaches
• Advise business partners on public procurement principles and practices, trade agreements, and contract/tender law
• Collaborate, lead, and facilitate 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
• Review and/or develop specifications, requirements, description and scope of work, and recommend improvements to business partner
• Work with business partners to compose RFx documents, develop evaluation plan, criteria, weightings, process, strategies, submission and contractual requirements and manage the RFx process
• Issue and manage RFx including development and issue of addenda; deal with bidder requests for clarifications and any other issues
• Manage business partner relationship with assigned portfolio
• Review and ensure completeness and accuracy of a variety of contract and  Purchase Order documentation and approve within delegated concurrence or forward to more senior concurrence and/or delegated authority, as required
• Perform other related duties