Procurement Support Services

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work-life balance – Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting-edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2022, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2022 and Greater Toronto's Top Employers 2022.

Your mission and responsibilities:

• Supply of materials based on customer requirements at the lowest price whilst ensuring quality and on-time delivery.
• Implement Commodity strategies to ensure long-term, cost-efficient supply of materials.
• Contribute to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).
• Prepare and conduct negotiations for medium Purchasing Volumes to obtain highest feasible savings.
• Generate, document and implement savings, e.g. CNI; plan, monitor and report on relevant KPI to contribute to the success of the business and make results transparent.
• Support Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification); update supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency and high procurement quality.
• Ensure a close cooperation with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure customer care and early involvement.

Qualification and Experience

• Conducts detailed regional market and supplier analyses, including demand, financial status, and options/solutions, using quantitative and qualitative methods and past experiences.
• Independently prepares and conducts basic regional negotiations using existing material field strategies, qualitative comparison criteria, and various negotiation methods (including ANC, e-Auction, CBD), documenting goals and results, and utilizing virtual negotiation tools (e.g., mail, phone, video calls, e-events).
• Ability to maintain a close relationship with suppliers. Identifies suppliers development measures from the supplier evaluation and implements them.
• Familiar with Code of Conduct requirements and explains them to suppliers, understands Sustainable Procurement aspects (Assurance, Perception, Growth), and effectively argues against typical supplier objections.
• Breaks down low-complexity issues into workable components, asks questions to identify symptoms and root causes, suggests appropriate corrective measures, and considers adaptable existing solutions.
• Good understanding of principles, methods, techniques, and stages of change and change initiatives tied to business performance.
• Knowledge to support organizational changes by assisting with management goals and objectives, communicates reasons for change, and motivates team members to improve, learn, and participate.
• Possesses basic knowledge and initial experience, understands principles, processes, tools, and methods, successfully executes standard tasks, and benefits from feedback, coaching, and mentoring from experts.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Mobility is a separately managed company of Siemens AG. As a leader in transport solutions for more than 175 years, Siemens Mobility is constantly innovating its portfolio. Its core areas include rolling stock, rail automation and electrification, a comprehensive software portfolio, turnkey systems as well as related services. With digital products and solutions, Siemens Mobility is enabling mobility operators worldwide to make infrastructure intelligent, increase value sustainably over the entire lifecycle, enhance passenger experience and guarantee availability. In fiscal year 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022, Siemens Mobility posted revenue of €9.7 billion and had around 38,200 employees worldwide. Further information is available at: www.siemens.com/mobility.

In Canada, Siemens Mobility has been providing solutions to the transportation industry for more than 40 years, including railway infrastructure maintenance services on the rail networks in Quebec and Ontario, light rail vehicles in Edmonton and Calgary, trainsets delivered to VIA Rail Canada, new trainsets for Ontario Northland that will bring back Northeastern passenger rail to Ontario that are expected to be delivered in 2026, an order for locomotives for Montreal’s exo and the rail electrification and overall system maintenance of the light rail transit network in Kitchener-Waterloo. Our footprint also includes dispatching services operated from Dorval, Québec, to more than 25 railways across Canada covering over 3,400 miles of track.

Today, Siemens Mobility provides customers with full-service capabilities for the entire life cycle of their projects to help evolve our growing cities while supporting Canada’s sustainability goals.

Siemens is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, Siemens Canada will provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities to support participation of candidates in all aspects of the recruitment process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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