Corporate Contracting & Sourcing Senior Advisor

Overview:

Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s Calgary’s office is actively hiring for Corporate Contracting & Sourcing Sr Advisor to join the team.  This position reports to the Manager, Corporate Contracting & Sourcing in the Tech Services & Supply Chain business unit, part of Pembina’s Operations division.  

Guided by Pembina's values, Supply Chain collaborates across the Organization ensuring that all supply chain activities are executed with the highest standards of ethics and integrity and are in strict adherence to Pembina’s policies. Supply Chain delivers strategic value to the organization by optimizing technology for material acquisition, inventory carrying, transportation, and planning costs. 

The Sr Advisor will provide dedicated support to the Information Service Unit (ISU). On a day-to-day basis, the Sr Advisor works closely with all Contracting & Sourcing team members (Corporate, Services, and Materials), as well as the Governance & Compliance and Business & Operations pillars of the Supply Chain team.  

The successful candidate must live within 100 km of Calgary, AB 

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities may include but not limited to:

• Support Pembina’s safety culture of "Zero by Choice" and the “Life Saving Rules”. To read more about our Life Saving Rules, visit pembina.com/safety;
• Support business and operations planning sessions to assess, enable and inform development and deployment of category strategies for software and digital projects;
• Build and maintain strong internal relationships with key stakeholders to advance strategic sourcing and contracting initiatives in support of business requirements;
• In consultation with the Governance team, perform spend analysis (gathering, cleansing and analyzing data) to identify and prioritize opportunities;
• Document category and sourcing strategies and draft charters;
• Evaluate incumbent supplier performance, perform targeted market intelligence research, evaluate potential supplier alternatives, and manage communications with suppliers;
• Analyze YTD supplier spend and compare against forecasted spend to determine potential change impacts;
• Execute category analysis, benchmarking and assess category performance;
• Assess operational, commercial, legal, and supplier risk and ensure application of the appropriate contracting and commercial strategies;  
• Collaborating with stakeholders to assess, define, and negotiate a variety of IT related agreements;
• Work with stakeholders to scope and structure professional services, managed services, implementation services for system integrator requirements;
• Develop total cost of ownership models and conduct cost modeling comparison to assess competitiveness across proposals including but not limited to hourly rates, fixed fee, unit rate, milestone, subscription, perpetual, consumption, credit, and managed-services contracts;  
• Determine efficient, fit for purpose, sourcing strategies and channels, with a lens of high-risk software vs. low risk software;  
• Lead end-to-end sourcing and contract execution activities, including development of negotiation positions, commercial recommendations and award documentation;
• Develop, negotiate, implement and manage master agreements and support contracting activities performed by other Supply Chain teams;
• Support implementation of multi-year contracts that include commercial benefits and key performance criteria with strategic suppliers;
• Provide support and review deliverables from critical contracting, process oversight and management and sourcing activities;  
• Develop, maintain and support supplier lifecycle performance processes;  
• Support administrative requirements for Categories, including updating project plans, scheduling stakeholder meetings, progress reporting, etc., and
• Support development of other Categories; 
• Ensure strong working relationships with, among others, operations, IT and Pembina’s joint venture partners;  
• Demonstrate learning agility by actively seeking feedback, adapting to new information quickly, and applying learnings to improve performance and deliver results in a dynamic environment; and  
• Participate and support an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace. 

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of Supply Chain and commercial focus;  
• Post-secondary education in Business Administration, Commerce, Supply Chain Management or related field; 
• Professional supply chain designation considered an asset;   
• Experience in enterprise user license agreements, software subscription agreements, service level agreements, maintenance and support agreements; 
• Good understanding of Supply Chain principles – knowledge and understanding of interdependencies and relationship between strategic and transactional supply chain across functional processes; 
• Strong commercial knowledge of software and digital projects; 
• Knowledgeable of best practices for contracting as it relates to vendor paper; 
• Experience leading cross function teams;  
• Proficient in being a trusted advisor and mentor to stakeholders and peers within supply chain;  
• Knowledge of SAP S/4 including Ariba and SAP Analytics Cloud is considered an asset; 
• Detail oriented with strong analytical skills and a quick learner who is self-motivated and able to work under tight deadlines in a continuously changing environment; 
• Effective communication and organizational skills complemented by a strong work ethic;  
• Experienced understanding of Corporate Contracting & Sourcing – inclusive of understanding the demand of the business, market trends, supplier landscape, supplier performance is considered an asset; 
• Mindset of thinking globally and applying this locally; 
• Understand the principles of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and application of appropriate lever at category and sub-category level; 
• Adept at building long-term and mutually beneficial strong partnerships with internal stakeholders suppliers; and  
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools, technologies, or processes and apply them effectively in a fast-paced environment.