IT Vendor Manager

Enercare Inc. is one of Canada’s largest home and commercial services companies servicing over one million customers across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec and New Brunswick. Enercare is the Experts at Home, operating under several brands including Enercare, Hydro Solution, and Pioneer Plumbing & Heating.

A proudly Canadian-owned company, we are the Experts at what we do and deeply care about our customers. We value a diverse, collaborative culture, and take pride in our commitment to health and safety, and knowing our work serves and supports our communities every day. No matter your role, we invest in making sure you have opportunities to grow, learn, and become the Expert you want to be.

If you are ready to become one of our Experts, we would love to hear from you.

Role: IT Vendor Manager

Status:
Permanent, Full Time

New or Replacement:
Replacement Position

Reports to:
Director - Vendor Management

Location:
Markham

Compensation: $84,264 - $130,609

Please note that the compensation range listed includes base salary and potential incentive pay. Incentives such as bonuses are not guaranteed and depend on individual performance and company results. Actual compensation within the range will be determined based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

The role of the IT Vendor Manager is to establish, maintain and evaluate vendor relationships to refine scope, reduce risk, align stakeholders, create flexibility, and manage cost in support of IT technology and services. This person supports vendor relationships, commercial document review, negotiations, accounts, invoices and performance management for suppliers and partners.

The Vendor Management team is a small, highly interdependent team that is critical to the efficient use of capital, adherence to policy and controls, allocations to the correct company/cost centre, compliance, and the timely payment to partners.

• Build, maintain and grow relationships with external vendors and suppliers.
• Baselining and modelling of offers, contract negotiation and risk management
• Process owner for vendor selection, onboarding, offboarding, and dispute management.
• Identifying opportunities for cost savings and managing third party spend to optimize financial outcomes
• Create flexibility where possible to manage risk. Understand vendor commercial frameworks and optimize rates while being a responsible steward of volumes
• Review and comment on commercial documentation (such as MSA’s, TSA’s, SOW’s, order forms, quotes, etc) to provide guidance and direction to the business and legal on potential risks and proactive explaining of non-risks
• Monitor commercial landscape and identify future risk on supplier viability, step function increases on price due to supplier ownership changes, strategy, etc.
• Support the team and Finance business partners with ad-hoc support as required. This would include support to Pillar leads and Finance business partners during the annual planning process.
• Track monthly and YTD spend, relative to budget to inform CIO on permissible burn rate. Provide visibility on material changes in volumes or rates.
• Create artifacts on contracting and renewal opportunities for future reference. Provide support to business stakeholders to acquire hardware, software, and services
• New vendor set-up and vendor maintenance in the financial systems (SAP and GERS).
• Validate and process invoices for all IT goods, services, and contractor spend. Process through Accounts Payable in a timely manner in accordance with delegation of authority policies, and month end deadlines.
• Ensure Enercare and its vendors comply with software and technology licenses, cloud agreements, SLA’s and warranty. Optimize as appropriate.
• Recommend effective license strategy options during the acquisition of licenses and related agreements.
• Assist in estimating costs (license related) during the planning process; facilitate licensing audits, and coordinate remediation activities when necessary.

• Accounting knowledge as it applies to Procurement, Accounts Payable, Cash, Capital, and Projects
• Understanding of IT Vendor Management and Procurement…