Supply Chain Responsible / Tactical Purchasing Manager

Montreal, QC (Hybrid) Full time

Role Summary

The role of the Tactical Purchasing Manager / Supply Responsible is to manage short and medium-term purchasing to meet the non-inventory operational needs of Thales Canada Avionique and Thales Solutions Numériques entities. They operate alone on their perimeter with all the responsibilities of a Tactical Buyer. This role focuses on responsiveness and efficiency in a dynamic environment.

This role requires a very high level of autonomy and rigor to organize work and comply with legal rules and the Thales process.

Essential Functions

On their perimeter of activities, the Tactical Purchasing Manager must:

• Participate in the strategic development of the BL tactical buyer role by participating in transformation and continuous improvement
• Integrate and participate in activities within the Noram and Group Purchasing community
• Support upstream acquisition activities. Receive purchase requests and check their compliance
• Process the transformation of a PR into a PO by validating the status and compliance of the selected supplier, the contract, submission data, (as appropriate, assist with submission analysis, conduct negotiations, collect export data) and take required actions with Category Managers / Category Buyers
• Create the PO: ensure data validity, attach all appropriate documents, transmit the PO to the supplier
• Manage the PO: obtain the acknowledgment of receipt, track delivery dates, perform PO cancellations. In case of modification, follow up with the requester, supplier, and keep the ERP up to date
• Manage billing disputes: Support finance in settling invoices
• Track performance indicators for their activity perimeter and propose potential corrective actions
• Support the creation and updating of supplier data, in collaboration with Process & Tools teams and Category Managers / Category Buyers
• Ensure data integrity in the ERP and contribute to keeping the Group e-Acquisition database up to date

Additional feature of this position:

• Support sales, program, and purchasing teams in organizing missions

Minimum Requirements

Required knowledge and skills:

• Spoken and written language: Fluent French and English
• Purchasing and supply knowledge: Understanding of purchasing processes, negotiation techniques, and supplier selection criteria
• Supplier management: Ability to evaluate, select, and maintain relationships with suppliers to guarantee quality, deadlines, and costs
• Supply chain management skills: Notions of delivery times, and coordination with internal teams (engineering, purchasing, finance, etc.)
• Practice of analysis and problem-solving techniques (PDCA, etc.)
• Mastery of IT tools: Use of ERP data analysis software (SAP), Power BI, SharePoint, Excel
• Negotiation skills
• Communication skills: Very good interpersonal skills to collaborate with suppliers and internal teams
• Organization and priority management: Able to manage multiple requests and emergencies while respecting deadlines
• Sense of adaptability and responsiveness: Knowing how to adapt quickly to changing internal needs

The Tactical Purchasing Manager interacts with:

• Shared services, such as Accounting, IS/IT, or Human Resources
• Engineering
• Purchasing (Procurement Product, Bid & Project Managers (PPM), Category Managers/Buyers (CM/CB), other Tactical Buyers (TB), Process & Tools)
• Trade Compliance, the Compliance Officer, and Legal
• Any other internal BL client

This position requires a good knowledge of English to interact with, support, and/or provide services to international clients, employees, and/or partners as well as foreign government authorities who do not speak French.