Siemens Procurement Support Services - Contract Role 

Canada, Quebec, Montreal 

248329072

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.

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 to implement 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.

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.