• Do you have experience in supplier management and would like to help strategically align our needs with our contracts?
• Are you recognized as an expert and leader in optimizing the management of large third-party relations/agreements?

Joining our team means growing professionally in a climate of transformation that fosters respect and transparency. It also gives you the opportunity to learn and grow within an Agile team that values collaboration, innovation and client satisfaction.

The main mandate of the Operations, Management of Supplier Strategy and Business Relations group is to implement a governance framework for business, contractual performance and delivery with key suppliers of various Operations sectors and the Bank as a whole. The group also plays a role in forming partnerships and business relationships directly with suppliers and business lines. 

You will be part of a team made up of supplier relationship management experts whose mission is to optimize the financial, contractual and relational value of our critical outsourced operations.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Business Relations.

These positions reports to the Senior Manager, Strategic Alliance Management in the Operations sector.

Your role:

• Understand and optimize the performance of a portfolio of major contracts that supports the activities of the Operations Shared Services sector
• Oversee the implementation of contract governance with the goal of improving relationships with partners and applying industry best practices in strategic alliance management
• Lead and influence the sectors’ strategic orientations to optimize performance in contractual governance while ensuring they are in line with the organization’s orientations 
• Be able to quickly grasp the sector’s business issues and identify stakeholders’ needs in order to propose strategies (e.g., strategic analysis of manageable costs, RFIs/ RFPs, proactive management of SLAs, added value gained through active relationship management, etc.) that you will help execute in collaboration with the Operations business sectors to ensure that existing alliances generate optimal value
• Establish and operate a methodology to regularly assess the “health” of your portfolio of alliances
• Integrate the various Operations drivers (Continuous Improvement, Productivity/Planning and Digitization) into the strategic alliances under the sector's responsibility
• Work with the sectors to ensure that the various risks (operational, reputational, regulatory, etc.) are properly managed within existing Operations alliances