Indirect Buyer

Bausch Health Canada is the international head office of Bausch Health Companies, one of the fastest growing international pharmaceutical companies dedicated to bringing quality health and wellness products to all Canadians.
Our team manufactures and markets a wide variety of pharmaceutical and health products that are distributed in pharmacies, healthcare practices and hospitals across the country.
At Bausch Health, we invest in our employees and we believe in the importance of cultivating performance and outdoing ourselves in finding new and better solutions with the aim of responding innovatively and effectively to current needs.
Position Summary
Reporting to the Manager, Procurement, your mission will be to ensure the execution of analysis activities in the indirect purchasing category as well as all activities related to the validation of customer needs, calls for tenders, negotiations, contracts, orders and follow-ups and also to ensure the follow-up and evaluation of suppliers.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Management Of Internal Requirements
Ensures that analyzes are completed in line with the needs of the company.
Ensures an exhaustive analysis of the needs of its internal client
Guarantees equality of information from all suppliers (specifications, answers to questions).
Establishes and/or validates the supplier choice table (comparison, choice argument)
Participates in decision-making through recommendations.
Encrypts or validates the final purchase request
Support the Laval site as an expert with requests related to the purchasing module or policies in place
Presents at the global and local level the portrait of future expenses and projects in the indirect category
Deliver annual target savings for the indirect category
NEGOTIATION / MANAGEMENT OF CALLS FOR TENDER
Analyzes information (internally) on suppliers and completes an evaluation of them according to the supplier management program in place
Periodically checks the financial health of key suppliers
Ensures monitoring of supplier markets, techniques and strategies
Proposes new potential suppliers (sourcing and audits)
Launches and actively participates in calls for tenders
Ensures meetings with suppliers in a partnership logic
Identifies negotiation levers and develops strategies.
Analyzes the offers and defines with the applicant the choice of supplier
Manages negotiations and offer conditions with suppliers
Manages negotiations related to capital requests following the internal procurement policy
MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS / DISPUTES
Ensures the monitoring of supplier commitments (deadlines, quality, price)
Sends contractual documents to suppliers and follows up on acknowledgments of receipt
Validates invoices with discrepancies and releases deposits on order
Disseminates internally (accounting, applicants) and ensures the sound management of contracts and agreements
Supports key partners in monitoring orders and meeting deadlines by the supplier
Ensures the renewal or call for tenders of contracts before expiry
Renegotiates contractual commitments in the event of modifications or disputes
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor of Business Administration. The P.G.C.A. title PMAC or other procurement certification is an asset.
Excellent knowledge of French and English, both oral and written.
Superior interpersonal skills, the position requiring a lot of interaction internally with different hierarchical levels and also externally. Very good team spirit. Strategic and autonomous person. Strong negotiation skills. Experience in project management, an asset. Attention to detail in the preparation of contracts and communication with the Legal department for review of contracts. Ability to work in a constantly moving environment with minimal supervision.
Work schedule and location in line with company policies.
Knowledge of concepts and systems related to purchasing (SAP modules, Ariba, Service Now, etc.)
Very good knowledge of MS Office systems, including advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
The masculine is used in this publication without prejudice for the sake of conciseness.
Bausch Health is committed to equal employment opportunity and complies with equal employment opportunity laws in effect wherever it operates.
Bausch Health is an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.