Supply Chain Agent - Montreal

Job offer: Supply Chain Agent

Location: Ville St Laurent

Company: AAA Canada (mandate for a major player in aeronautics)

Type: Full-time, Permanent position

Benefits and advantages

• Permanent employment offering stability and security.
• Use of high-performance and quality equipment.
• Sick days to ensure your well-being.
• Comprehensive group insurance program.
• Career development and professional growth opportunities.
• Stimulating work environment with major projects in the aeronautics, land transport, and defense sectors.
• Development, health, and well-being program.

Job description

In your role, you will be required to:

• Establish and maintain good commercial and contractual relations with geographically dispersed strategic suppliers.
• Develop new sources of supply and develop strategic business relationships.
• Develop negotiation strategies.
• Lead and participate in commodity development by leading projects that require business plan preparation.
• Lead, develop, and execute commodity strategies and provide senior management with project and negotiation statuses.
• Identify, analyze, and materialize cost reduction opportunities.
• Develop, improve, and maintain continuous dialogue with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as a single point of contact with suppliers for new business opportunities.

• Offer support to sites and business units regarding global procurement strategies.
• Coordinate and lead the negotiation of contractual claims with suppliers to support production issues of business units.
• Support business units in the application of contractual clauses.
• Lead contract negotiations with suppliers.
• Ensure that contracts are maintained in accordance with our business requirements.
• Coordinate the activities of procurement agents in line with balanced scorecard objectives, master plans, and detailed plans.
• Support other procurement agents in contract negotiation, commercial requests, product changes, and contract amendments.
• Participate in the governance of cost reduction projects and adequately maintain the performance indicators for these projects.

Your profile:

• You hold an undergraduate university degree in business administration, law, supply chain, or equivalent.
• You have five (4) to ten (8) years of relevant professional experience.
• You have experience in the aeronautical and/or manufacturing industry and/or in program management in a commercial role, an asset.
• You are recognized for your great negotiation and project management skills.
• You are detail-oriented, focused, and committed to meeting deadlines.
• You demonstrate excellent communication skills and are proficient in French and English, both spoken and written. Team spirit, innovation, and leadership make you an effective person.
• You have good knowledge of operational and financial management, as well as contractual legal terminology and interpretation.
• You are familiar with just-in-time supply logistics, integrated supply chain, and "lean manufacturing" concepts.
• You are proficient in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Outlook applications.

Key Skills:

• Contract management – experience in negotiation, mastery of contractual language, review of terms and conditions.
• Relationship development – primary contact with suppliers.
• Commodity management – experience in managing purchasing categories.
• Multitasking – ability to manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Legal experience – an asset.
• Aeronautical experience – an asset.
• Language: bilingual (French/English), an intermediate level in French may be considered.
• Estimated duration of mandate: 6 to 12 months.

At AAA Canada, we believe in human potential above all else. We look beyond CVs: what interests us is your background, your expertise, and your vision.

AAA is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and members of visible minorities to apply.

To apply, send your application to elisa.costa@aaa-canada.ca

ABOUT AAA CANADA

AAA Canada is an on-site and off-site manufacturing company that offers specialized subcontracting and technical assistance services related to industrial engineering, production, and maintenance processes in the Aeronautics, Land Transport, and Defense sectors.