Senior Buyer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 54487)

Description

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, Senior Buyers are professionals that 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. Elevate your procurement career by leading high-impact, complex projects that shape our city. You will drive the end-to-end procurement lifecycle for diverse projects—ranging from major infrastructure like LRT construction to essential consulting services.

In this role you will lead a portfolio and exercise professional judgment and procurement expertise to ensure transparency, integrity, and best value. This is a high-visibility role where your ability to collaborate with internal partners and navigate intermediate to high-complexity RFx processes will directly impact the community's growth and success.

What will you do?

• Liaises and consults with business partners in assigned portfolio to proactively prioritize and plan ahead for anticipated procurement activities partners procurement needs
• Provides multifaceted advice to business partners on procurement procedures, methods, and approaches
• Advises business partners on public procurement principles and practices, trade agreements, and public procurement  law
• Collaborates, leads, and facilitates interactions with business partners and Procurement staff to develop appropriate sourcing strategies for intermediate to high complexity and high risk procurements including non-competitive, invitational, and competitive processes
• Proactively works with business partners to promote competitive processes, where appropriate
• Provides advice for non-competitive procurements 
• Consults or works in conjunction with other subject matter experts such as Law, Corporate Access & Privacy, Risk Management, Information Technology, Finance
• Considers corporate perspectives and issues when planning procurement activities;
• Conducts market and internal research and analysis using tools and resources in support of RFx to ensure the best procurement method, sourcing approach, and value for the City
• Reviews 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
• Manages business partner relationship with assigned portfolio
• Manages debriefs and interactions with suppliers