Job Description

About the Role
Location
Canada
Quebec
Trois-Rivieres
Remote vs. Office
Office/Site only
Company
Siemens Energy Transformers Canada Inc.
Organization
Grid Technologies
Business Unit
Products
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Experienced Professional
A Snapshot of Your Day
As the Purchasing & Planning Manager, you will lead the purchasing team (buyers, senior strategic buyer, inventory specialist, and contract administrator) and the planning activities at the distribution transformers factory in Trois-Rivieres.
Leading your team, you'll ensure on-time production by making sure that materials are available as required according to delivery schedules. You'll contribute to the plant's success by negotiating favourable purchasing terms and maintaining optimal inventory levels. You will be part of our cross-plant consolidation team and contribute to international procurement initiatives. By developing your team members, you'll also be helping to make our site an attractive employer in a competitive market.
How You'll Make an Impact

• Production Planning & Material Availability: Align customer orders with production capacity and ensure timely material supply to the production line.
• Supplier Management: Oversee supplier qualifications and negotiations, including handling key contract negotiations personally.
• Forecasting & Strategy: Develop product forecasts and strategies that comply with local needs and Siemens Energy policies.
• Performance & Planning: Contribute to quarterly and annual planning, presenting KPIs relevant to your scope.
• Bidding & Cost Analysis: Support bidding processes by managing delivery timelines and providing material cost insights.
• Inventory & Process Optimization: Define inventory strategies per parts group and lead improvement initiatives for operations and IT systems.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated strength in organizational skills, business acumen, and goal-oriented execution.

• At least 3 years of experience in a comparable position leading a supply chain management team with proven ability to collaborate in team environments and lead change initiatives effectively.
• Significant and practical experience in the use of IT tools for MRP/ERP (ideally SAP) as well as the Microsoft Office suite. IT project management experience is an asset
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills. Skilled in navigating ambiguity with sound judgment, customer focus, and strong decision-making and negotiation capabilities.
• Holds a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business administration or a technical field, or equivalent; fluency in French and English is required for international collaboration and documentation.

About the Team
Our Grid Technology division supports a dependable, eco-friendly, and online network! The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities! Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Supportive work culture and a healthy work- life balance
• Flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Competitive total rewards package
• Flexible benefits and savings programs
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell vacation
• Parental leave
• Profit sharing
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives
• Diversity and inclusivity focused

Jobs & Careers:
Titre du poste: Directeur des Achats et da la Planification
Un apercu de votre journee
En tant que Responsable des Achats et de la Planification, vous dirigerez l'equipe des achats (acheteurs, acheteur strategique principal, specialiste des stocks et administrateur de contrats) ainsi que les activites de planification a l'usine de transformateurs de distribution de Trois-Rivieres.
A la tete de votre equipe, vous veillerez a ce que la production soit realisee dans les delais en garantissant la disponibilite des materiaux selon les calendriers de livraison. Vous contribuerez au succes de l'usine en negociant des conditions d'achat avantageuses et en maintenant des niveaux de stock optimaux. Vous ferez partie de notre equipe de consolidation inter-usines et participerez aux initiatives d'approvisionnement international. En developpant les competences de vos collaborateurs, vous contribuerez egalement a faire de notre site un employeur attractif dans un marche competitif.
Comment vous ferez la difference

• Planification de la production & disponibilite des materiaux : Aligner les commandes clients avec la capacite de production et assurer l'approvisionnement en materiaux dans les delais.
• Gestion des fournisseurs : Superviser la qualification et la negociation avec les fournisseurs, y compris la negociation directe des contrats cles.
• Previsions & strategie : Elaborer des previsions de produits et des strategies conformes aux besoins locaux et aux politiques de Siemens Energy.
• Suivi de performance & planification : Contribuer a la planification trimestrielle et annuelle, et presenter les indicateurs de performance (KPI) de votre perimetre.
• Appels d'offres & analyse des couts : Soutenir les processus d'appel d'offres en gerant les delais de livraison et en fournissant des donnees sur les couts des materiaux.
• Optimisation des stocks & des processus : Definir des strategies de gestion des stocks par groupe de pieces et piloter des projets d'amelioration des processus operationnels et des systemes informatiques.

Ce que vous apportez a l'entreprise

• Solides competences organisationnelles, sens des affaires et capacite a atteindre les objectifs.
• Minimum de 3 ans d'experience dans un poste similaire, avec gestion d'equipe en chaine d'approvisionnement et capacite demontree a collaborer et a mener des initiatives de changement.
• Experience significative et pratique des outils informatiques MRP/ERP (idealement SAP) ainsi que de la suite Microsoft Office. Une experience en gestion de projets informatiques est un atout.
• Excellentes competences analytiques et organisationnelles. Capacite a evoluer dans l'ambiguite avec discernement, orientation client, et solides aptitudes en prise de decision et en negociation.
• Diplome universitaire en gestion de la chaine d'approvisionnement, administration des affaires ou domaine technique, ou equivalent. Maitrise du francais et de l'anglais requise pour la collaboration internationale et la documentation.

A propos de l'equipe
Le reseau electrique est la colonne vertebrale de la transition energetique. Siemens Energy propose un portefeuille de solutions de pointe incluant la transmission HVDC, la stabilisation et le stockage du reseau, les appareillages haute tension et les transformateurs, ainsi que les technologies numeriques pour le developpement de reseaux intelligents.
Qui est Siemens Energy ?
Chez Siemens Energy, nous sommes plus qu'une simple entreprise de technologie energetique. Avec environ 100 000 employes devoues dans plus de 90 pays, nous developpons les systemes energetiques de demain, garantissant que la demande energetique croissante de la communaute mondiale soit satisfaite de maniere fiable et durable. Les technologies creees dans nos departements de recherche et nos usines propulsent la transition energetique et constituent la base d'un sixieme de la production mondiale d'electricite.
Notre equipe mondiale s'engage a faire d'une energie durable, fiable et abordable une realite en repoussant les limites de ce qui est possible. Nous preservons un heritage de 150 ans d'innovation qui nous encourage a rechercher des personnes qui soutiendront notre approche centree sur la decarbonisation, les nouvelles technologies et la transformation energetique.
Decouvrez comment faire la difference chez Siemens Energy :
Notre engagement en faveur de la diversite
Heureusement pour nous, nous sommes tous differents. La diversite est notre moteur. Il fonctionne a l'inclusion, et notre energie creatrice combinee est alimentee par plus de 130 nationalites. Siemens Energy celebre la personnalite de chacun - quels que soient son origine ethnique, son genre, son age, sa religion, son identite ou son handicap. Nous donnons de l'energie a la societe, a toute la societe, et nous ne discriminons pas sur la base de nos differences.
Retributions

• Occasions de developpement de carriere et de perfectionnement
• Culture de travail axee sur le soutien et equilibre travail-vie personnelle sain
• Environnement de travail souple - horaires variables, teletravail et espaces de travail numeriques.
• Remuneration globale concurrentielle.
• Avantages sociaux flexibles et programmes d'epargne
• Possibilite d'acheter des vacances ou de vendre celles auxquelles vous avez droit
• Conge parental
• Participation aux benefices
• Contribution a nos initiatives en matiere de responsabilite sociale
• Accent mis sur la diversite et l'inclusion

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