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- You currently live more than a 45 minute commute from Cambridge Ontario
At Cambridge Elevating, we are seeking someone to join our team as a Strategic Procurement Lead in a full time capacity. Our operations are grounded in a strong engineering and customer support culture. We're aiming to evolve procurement into a strategic function that helps unlock growth, reduce cost volatility, and elevate our dealer and customer experience.
At Cambridge Elevating we are the premium home elevator manufacturer for North America, and have extremely low employee turnover. We have a high-performance team environment and our staff stay with us to build a career with us.
Our Mission: To create and uphold an atmosphere of excellence being the most responsive to our customers’ needs enabling us to support their success
Our Purpose: To design, manufacture, install & service premium Cambridge Elevating products that meet or exceed our customers’ expectations. This is to be accomplished by:
- An unparalleled dedication to customer service
- A focus on attention to detail
- Proactively surpassing market driven demands
- Dealing with our employees and stakeholders in a fair and ethical manner
- Ensuring our employees work in a safe & healthy work environment
- Ensuring our actions have minimal impact on the environment
Core Behaviors: In an effort to elaborate on our Mission and Purpose, this list of core behaviors intends to sustain and strengthen the work environment we choose to come to each working day:
- Treat all people with dignity and respect. This includes co-workers, customers, vendors, cleaning staff, the owner and anyone else you come into contact with while being a representative of Cambridge Elevating.
- Honor the commitments you make. This builds trust and indicates reliability. This is something everyone looks for in all of their relationships. If you anticipate being unable to meet a commitment, communicate early to reset expectations. Deliberate planning is the best path to achieve honoring your commitments.
- Make your expectations clear. Define what success is so people know exactly what is needed and why. Ambiguous or moving targets are frustrating and inefficient to achieve.
- Be a member of the Cambridge Elevating team. Be reliable, accountable, helpful, and supportive of those around you – we’re all in this together.
- Be Solution Focused. Always focus on blameless problem solving – blaming people or circumstance won’t improve the situation going forward. Focus on things we can control. Whether you have the right answer or not, propose a solution to every problem you encounter. It may be the solution we need, or it may spark the next great idea.
The Strategic Procurement Lead will play a key role in evolving procurement into a high-functioning, forward-looking capability. This person will bring strategic sourcing insight, supplier development expertise, leadership qualities, and a bias toward systems thinking. They will lead vendor strategy, introduce best-in-class policies, guide geographic sourcing diversification, and help mentor and upskill a small but capable team.
Key Responsibilities:
Sourcing Strategy & Vendor Development
- Identify and develop alternative sources with focus on key geographies for expansion
- Evaluate and qualify new vendors for niche, complex, and high-impact components.
- Improve supplier terms, resiliency, and overall cost-effectiveness.
Policy, Process, and System Improvement
- Rehabilitate and/or introduce best-practice procurement policies, such as vendor scorecards, sourcing standards, and terms management.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align procurement activities with engineering, operations, and finance goals.
- Support the ERP implementation by defining and documenting procurement processes, even if not leading the rollout.
Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Provide guidance and mentorship to the existing buyer and supply chain administrator.
- Elevate team performance through structure, coaching, and goal-setting.
Strategic Initiatives
- Contribute to the company's scaling & growth strategy by helping model supply chain implications.
- Track and interpret trade policy developments (especially U.S./Canada) and recommend proactive supply chain moves.
- Lead procurement’s role in supporting customization growth and responsiveness.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required:
- 7–15 years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain roles.
- Demonstrated success developing supplier bases in North America and overseas (Turkey, Mexico, Europe and Southeast Asia preferred).
- Strong systems and process thinking; ability to implement structure in a scaling organization.
- Experience working in or with an ERP system in a manufacturing setting.
- Proven ability to introduce and operationalize procurement policies and vendor management tools.
- Demonstrated mentoring or team development capabilities.
Preferred:
- Experience in an engineered-to-order, build-to-order, or component-based manufacturing company.
- Exposure to dual-site or international production environments.
- Background in electrical, mechanical, or industrial products is a strong asset.
Educational Background:
- Degree or diploma in supply chain, business, engineering, or equivalent.
- Additional credentials (e.g., SCMP, CPSM, CPIM) considered an asset but not required.
Success Milestones:
30 Days:
- Understand key products, supply categories, vendor relationships, and procurement pain points.
- Build working rapport with procurement team and key stakeholders in operations, engineering, and finance.
- Begin informal coaching of procurement staff.
90 Days:
- Identify and document procurement performance baselines (e.g., expedite frequency, key vendor risks).
- Propose and initiate a vendor evaluation framework and sourcing policy roadmap.
- Launch 1–2 new vendor evaluations in alternative geographies (e.g., Turkey, Mexico).
- Provide ERP implementation input related to procurement workflows.
180 Days:
- Formalize strategic sourcing policy and begin rollout across top 80% of spend categories.
- Reduce expedited purchasing costs/frequency through proactive sourcing or lead time control.
- Develop supplier performance dashboard (OTD, quality, pricing stability, etc.).
- Deliver internal talent development plan and succession model for procurement team.
- Present preliminary supply chain plan to support scaling strategies
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $80,000.00-$105,000.00 per year
Additional pay:
- Bonus pay
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Flexible language requirement:
- French not required
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cambridge, ON N1T 1J3: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Sourcing: 5 years (required)
- Leadership / mentorship: 2 years (preferred)
- ERP implementation: 1 year (preferred)
- Policy / procedure creation: 2 years (required)
Language:
- English (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 2025-06-30
