Duration: 4-month contract position starting in May
Team: Network Procurement, Chief Procurement Office
Group: Corporate Affairs and Finance
Location: Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa (Remote or TELUS Offices)
Join our team
The Procurement team impacts everything and everyone. We optimize spend across all business units and provide savings that can then be reinvested to deliver innovative products, services, solutions and exceptional experiences to our customers. We’re the trusted business partner to senior leaders accountable for making informed decisions on strategic and operational expenditures. Our partnership model approach extends to suppliers who become strategic partners in our quest to deliver the best value, minimize risks, introduce innovation, and achieve the best results. Layering in technology advancements such as artificial intelligence and robotic process automation into our practice is world-class and opens our minds to the extent of new possibilities.
TELUS is on the exciting journey to deploy next generation telecom technologies across our networks that deliver a tremendous breadth of mobile and fixed communications solutions, entertainment platforms, security, consumer and enterprise offerings. Networks Procurement’s contribution is ever more critical in order to achieve successful deployment of broad range of new technologies to ensure TELUS’ continuously winning of best network awards, to drive Likelihood to Recommend by customers through network reliability and best-in-class customer experience, to stimulate suppliers innovation and to explore and implement new cost models to reduce TELUS networks supply costs to stay ahead of competition. Our ambition is to enrich the end customers’ lives and to improve businesses’ productivity through future friendly telecommunication services.
What would I be doing?
You will partner with Category Managers and Category Leaders to support the execution of various contracts and sourcing strategies. You will be part of the team supporting our contracting process, executing or supporting different RFx’s, (Request for Proposals, Quotes or Information) supporting bid analysis and/or performing data analysis of complex RFPs to support the selection the best supply solution(s) for TELUS and undertaking specific projects as may assigned.
As a Procurement Co-Op, you are motivated and challenged by assisting the Network Procurement Team to efficiently deploy, both client and procurement originating strategies. This is an individual contributor position; however, you will lead by influence and collaborate with other departments at TELUS.
Language: Fluent written and verbal English
What skills and experience do I need?
Do I need to know anything about Procurement & Supply Chain?
A solid understanding of procurement, purchasing and/or strategic sourcing processes is not required, but would be useful. At a minimum, you should understand the role of Procurement within an organization, and the role the function plays in driving value.
Who is TELUS?
You would be part of a high-performing team of individuals who collectively make TELUS one of the leading telecommunications companies in Canada.
Passion for demonstrating our values and making a difference for our customers, our shareholders, our communities and our team helps drive our success.
At TELUS, you create future friendly possibilities®
At TELUS, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.
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