Manager, Procurement

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, Procurement Strategy and Planning, the Manager, Procurement leads the development and oversight of consistent, compliant, and effective procurement practices across the department’s horizontal infrastructure portfolio. The role aligns procurement strategy and policy with operational needs, manages risk, and promotes fair, transparent, and value-for-money outcomes.

The Manager, Procurement provides expert advice and guidance on procurement and contract matters, interpreting legislation, regulations, and procurement practices to support compliant and effective outcomes. The role also advises project teams and stakeholders on procurement procedures, contract law, and contract administration.

The core outcomes are:

• Strategic Procurement Leadership and Transformation: Leads enterprise procurement strategy and transformation initiatives for the Ministry to modernize procurement delivery models, improve consistency and efficiency, and align procurement practices with government-wide reforms and ministry strategic priorities.
• Governance, Policy Integrity, and Risk Management: Establishes and maintains enterprise procurement governance frameworks and policy oversight to ensure procurement activities are lawful, defensible, consistent, and aligned with legislation, regulation, GoA directives, and ministerial policy, while minimizing legal, financial, and reputational risk.
• Enterprise Procurement Frameworks, Templates, and Contract Management Standards: Defines and sustains standardized enterprise procurement and contract management frameworks to enable consistent, transparent, and effective procurement and contract life-cycle management across the Ministry and, where appropriate, other jurisdictions.
• Senior Procurement Advisory Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement: Provides senior level procurement advisory services and stakeholder engagement to enable compliant, effective procurement outcomes while strengthening procurement literacy, confidence, and informed decision making across the organization.
• Procurement Authority, Compliance, and Organizational Accountability: Exercises delegated procurement authority and ensures oversight of procurement, evaluation, and award processes to safeguard the Ministry against legal, financial, and reputational risk and ensure all procurements are conducted fairly, transparently, and in accordance with policy and trade obligations.
• Capability Building, Performance Management, and Continuous Improvement: Builds organizational procurement capability and drives performance management, knowledge governance, and continuous improvement to sustain long-term strategic procurement capability, strengthen compliance, and ensure procurement frameworks remain current, efficient, and aligned with ministry and GoA requirements.

The Job Description is provided for Further details on this position. 

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

The competencies required to succeed in this role are : 

• Systems Thinking - Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them.
• Creative Problem Solving - Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues.
• Drive for Results - Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes.
• Build Collaborative Environment - Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict.

Qualifications

Required:

• University degree in Engineering , Architecture, Business/Public Administration ,Supply Chain Management  or a related field, supplemented by a minimum of four (4) years of progressively responsible and related experience.

Equivalency will be considered on a one-to-one basis; One year of experience for one year of education and vice versa.

Related and responsible experience includes: 

• Proven leadership experience managing teams in a complex, high value procurement projects.
• Advanced professional expertise in public procurement, including procurement theory, policy interpretation, and applied practice.
• Strong technical knowledge in contract and competitive bid law, complex procurement methods (including non-traditional and alternative delivery models), negotiation, and risk management.
• A thorough understanding of applicable domestic and international trade agreements, legislation, and government policies is essential.
• Familiarity with modern procurement practices and systems, including electronic procurement tools, information management systems, and financial and project management applications

Preference may be given to candidates with the below-mentioned assets:

• Ongoing professional development in leadership, procurement, project management, information technology, negotiation, and dispute resolution
• Experience in infrastructure, transportation, engineering, construction, or consulting environments 

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

Additional Position Details:

• Term of Employment: Permanent, Full-time position.
• Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• Location:Twin Atria Building,  Edmonton.

Recruitment Process:

• Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.
• Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. 

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.
 

• Working for the Alberta Public Service 
• Management Employee Pension Plan (MEPP).
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information 
• Professional learning and development
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool 
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.