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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

What will you work on?

The Category Lead, Indirect Procurement plays a key role in supporting the efforts of the Procurement team ensuring Spin Master obtains the best combination of pricing, service and quality across indirect spend categories of goods and services.

How will you create impact?

Savings Tracking
Invoice Validation
Integration focal
Prepare Presentations
Sourcing Strategy
Sourcing
Stakeholder Management
Contract Management
Reporting & Analysis
Tactical Purchasing
Project Management
Efficiency
Value Add
Integrity
Track savings across multiple procurement initiatives
Validate expected savings against actual spend
Engage with cross functional team members from different business units such as Procurement, Finance, External Consultants, Marketing, Logistics, IT, etc
Ensure all documentation is properly captured and tracked
Work with External Consultants to ensure all invoices are properly aligned with savings opportunities
Liaise with finance to ensure invoices are coded to appropriate cost centres
Coordinate with team Integrating new business unit into Spin Master
Maintenance of all documentation related to identified synergies between business units
As needed views of current state of savings and spend tracking
Under the direction of the Senior Category Manager, create global procurement strategies for assigned indirect spend categories to reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and mitigate business risk
Design and execute sourcing events (RFx), analyze supplier proposals, negotiate, and manages post award supplier activities
Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including driving compliance to procurement strategies, policies and processes
Partners with business units and legal team in the negotiation of contracts and agreements, including Master Services Agreements, Statements of Works and Service Level Agreements
Prepare analysis and provide high level reports on data needed for strategy development including spend data, market data, business process metrics, cost modelling and category opportunity analysis
Issue purchase orders utilizing e-Procurement system, administer supplier approval and setup, and support continuous improvement of the technology enablement initiative
Facilitates implementation of procurement initiatives by driving cross-functional team collaboration. Responsible for ensuring consistent standardization of procurement processes while driving global procurement strategy
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define SLA's and KPI's for suppliers and assist business units in measuring supplier performance
Support ad hoc requests, including one-off tactical sourcing requirements for internal business units
Interact with internal and external stakeholders in a professional and ethical manner, adhering to procurement best practices

What are your skills and experience?

Category management and/or strategic sourcing experience of indirect goods and services, ideally including logistics procurement
Experience with contract management and working knowledge of contract law would be an asset
Direct exposure to the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry is preferred
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Visio and PowerPoint
Experience with SAP procurement and Procure-to-Pay Process

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

Growth and Career Opportunities
Flexible Work Hours
Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
Comprehensive Benefits
Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

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