Job Type: Permanent
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 130493
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON
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Position Summary
The Real Estate & Office Services Procurement Manager plays a critical role in executing and delivering strategic real estate and workplace services initiatives. This position involves developing master category strategies and collaborating closely with customers to formulate and implement essential strategies that align with broader business objectives. In this position, you'll ensure new value is delivered to the firm by optimizing sourcing strategies for total cost of ownership, long-term value creation, and operational efficiency. You will negotiate critical deals with suppliers, address risks and secure favorable outcomes. Success in this role depends on your ability to independently collaborate with key business stakeholders, ensuring procurement decisions align seamlessly with organizational goals, timelines, and performance expectations. You will be measured by your ability to deliver value, drive efficiency improvements, and enhance stakeholder satisfaction. If you're a results-oriented leader who excels in building partnerships, enhancing processes, and delivering impactful solutions across the value chain, we want to hear from you.
The Real Estate & Office Services Procurement Manager is responsible for delivering real estate and office services initiatives across North America. This includes, but is not limited to preferred provider programs in lease advisory services, construction, corporate interiors, architecture, external project management, facilities management, furniture, hospitality and security.
What will your typical day look like?
Key Responsibilities:
- Trusted Advisor:
- Serve as a procurement advisor by consulting and advising internal partners, principals, and executives on critical procurement initiatives.
- Establish strong, trust-based relationships with senior executives, serving as the primary procurement liaison to ensure alignment with business priorities.
- Strategic Collaboration:
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, aligning on sourcing/procurement project objectives, developing key deliverables, and implementing changes.
- Coordinate with internal departments to anticipate needs and specifications, ensuring procurement activities are synchronized with broader goals.
- Market Insight and Value Creation:
- Conduct and analyze market research to identify potential vendors and suppliers.
- Perform regular assessments and conduct internal and external analysis to identify new opportunities to add value.
- Create insights related to the client’s strategic and financial ambitions, challenging working capital/cash flow objectives through structured data analyses.
- Strategy Development:
- Lead the development of master category strategies and detailed negotiation strategies to guide procurement initiatives.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure strategies align with business objectives and deliver maximum value.
- Strategic Sourcing and Negotiation:
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives (RFI/RFP) and negotiate high-value contracts to optimize procurement outcomes.
- Perform in-depth spend analysis and trend evaluation, identifying consolidation opportunities to leverage enterprise-wide buying power.
- Performance Management:
- Establish, track, and report on procurement performance metrics, using data-driven insights to evaluate outcomes and identify areas for improvement.
- Supplier Management:
- Manage supplier relationships to ensure contract compliance and resolve issues effectively.
- Serve as a trusted advisor through persuasive communication, managing the presentation of final project deliverables.
- Process Optimization:
- Drive the identification and implementation of procurement best practices to deliver measurable value.
About the team
Global CoRe provides seven fundamental services to Deloitte around the world: knowledge services, creative services, contact center, data management assessment services, data protection, procurement, and real estate. We develop new and innovative ways to improve how these services are delivered across the organization, leveraging our global scope and strength to serve our organization within and across borders.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you
Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of procurement experience with expertise in real estate, leasing, facilities, or workplace operations-related categories.
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent).
- Extensive experience in strategic sourcing execution and negotiation strategy development.
- Project management expertise.
- Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate coordination between legal and business stakeholders for contract completion.
- Proficiency in agreement and contract templates.
- Experience working independently and in virtual environments.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams/Office Suite, and iCertis
Total Rewards
The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $156,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.
Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.
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