Please note: This role has been filled. We are leaving it up temporarily as a notification to all interested candidates about its status. We thank all candidates for their interest.
The Client:
Argentus is proud to be working with one of our top recent clients in the Technology space on a potentially career-making Procurement leadership role! This client is a proudly Canadian technology company with a global footprint and strong growth prospects—a fast-moving, highly entrepreneurial environment. Today, they’ve tasked Argentus to source a procurement leader who will lead the company’s global IT Procurement function!
The Opportunity:
This individual will work remotely within Canada, supporting the company’s offices around the globe in developing and executing procurement strategies for Indirect Procurement, with an emphasis on Software and Software as a Service (SaaS).
In this role, the successful candidate will lead the IT Procurement function across the organization, leading a small but growing team to deliver exceptional procurement outcomes for all IT Software and SaaS purchases, licenses and contracts. This is a hands-on leadership role, where you will provide end-to-end project management for significant IT contracts, working to enable a variety of key stakeholders across the organization. You will work to deeply understand stakeholders’ needs, and then provide hands-on leadership to the procurement team to execute those projects through competitive processes, supplier negotiation, contracting, onboarding and ongoing vendor management.
In addition, you will act as an overall subject matter expert and IT procurement guru within the organization, working within their highly entrepreneurial environment to offer strategic recommendations based on your understanding of the market and current trends. In the big picture, you will work to strategically break down silos across the organization, and establish strong IT procurement processes that will deliver exceptional value within the company as it continues to grow. In short, it’s a potentially career-making role for the right individual.
The Ideal Candidate:
Our client is looking for a proven IT Procurement leader with significant experience managing complex, high-value software and SaaS projects within a highly entrepreneurial organization, ideally within the SaaS industry or software industry. In addition, the successful candidate needs to have significant people management skills and a track record of leading and coaching procurement teams to success. Excellent communications, negotiations and relationship-building skills are also a must. Our client is looking for a hands-on IT procurement leader who can use strategic sourcing and vendor management to enable and advance the overall company strategy.
Please note: Candidates with experience primarily within large organizations with a highly structured environment are not a good fit.
If you’re an IT Procurement leader looking to make an impact with your next role, reach out to Argentus today! Send an email to recruit@argentus.com with your resume outlining your strategic IT Procurement leadership experience.
Please note: this capsule job description is meant to give a summary of the role. A full job description is available upon request. We regret that only candidates already located in Canada are eligible to apply.