Job Description

Nous sommes fiers d'être une entreprise qui embrasse la valeur de rassembler des personnes diversifiées, talentueuses et engagées. La façon la plus rapide d’innover est de rassembler des gens de diverses opinions dans un environnement inclusif. Nous encourageons nos collègues à remettre en question avec respect les problèmes de réflexion et d’approche de l’un et de l’autre. Nous sommes un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi et nous sommes déterminés à favoriser un milieu de travail inclusif et diversifié.

Required Skills:

Adaptability, Adaptability, Business Decisions, Business Functions, Clinical Program Management, Contract Management, Cost Analysis, Data Analysis, Demand Management, Developing Pricing Strategies, Health Economic Modeling, Health Economics, Inventory Management, Market Access, Market Development, Market Research, Medical Genetics, Networking Relationships, Pharmaceutical Pricing, Pricing Processes, Pricing Strategies, Product Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationship Management {+ 2 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Specialist, Lot Supply & Demand Management - Strategic Pricing, Contracting & Negotiations

Are you passionate about making a difference in public health? Join our company as a Specialist in Lot Supply & Demand Management, where you will play a crucial role in managing vaccine orders, inventory, and contracts. This position offers the opportunity to work with a dynamic team, engage with various stakeholders, and contribute to the optimization of vaccine supply processes.

Reporting to the Director, Strategic Pricing, Contracting & Negotiations, the Specialist is responsible for the management of public health vaccine orders, including inventory management, vaccine returns, lot releases, contract management, and external/internal customer relations.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Order & Supply Management: Assess Public Health vaccine orders according to Contract Designated Users’ (DUs’) needs based on contractual agreements and inventory. Lead the monthly PSPC and PHAC supply status calls, prepare all supply status communications (especially relating to under-ordering or possible upcoming shortages), and manage the reporting of shortages on drugshortages.ca.

• Inventory & Operations Strategy: Manage inventory levels, specifically directing the supply management group for optimal ordering to minimize shortages and destructions. Facilitate internal communications to ensure awareness of ordering patterns. Manage reagents re-ordering for Health Canada, reference standards expiry with global/local regulatory departments, lots for testing on importation, and expedited releases from Health Canada.

• Proactive Project Management: Act as a project manager (vs. liaising) to proactively address situations that could lead to shortages or missed orders due to lack of supply (e.g., expired reference standards, missing protocols, missing reagents). Coordinate process improvements with FPTs, manage samples sent for Health Canada testing to minimize unnecessary testing, and proactively provide missing reagents to minimize stockouts at Health Canada labs.

• Contract & RFP Management: Support the Director, Pricing in preparing proposal responses to vaccine RFPs. Directly liaise with procurement agents at PSPC for contract amendments, circulate all contract amendments internally (Pricing, Marketing, Canada Planning, Finance & Legal), and update reports accordingly.

• Returns Optimization: Assess all expired vaccine returns according to contractual return clauses, secure approvals, and improve processes for returns to ensure optimal processing.

• Customer Centricity: Develop internal and external processes to meet special requirements for the DUs to distinguish the organization in the market as a customer-centric supplier/partner.

• Stakeholder Relations: Build strong relationships with external stakeholders such as Contract Designated Users, contractual authorities, and the PHAC & BRDD. Manage monthly calls with the field teams in policy and the business unit on public vaccine contract status updates and action items.

• Forecasting & Analytics: Actively participate in the regular public vaccine forecast updates with finance and the business unit.

• Systems Leadership: Lead the Canadian perspective on improvements in global systems for tender management and order status monitoring.

Qualifications Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or its equivalent is preferred

• Previous experience working in the field of vaccines is an asset

• Experience building relationships with external stakeholders.

• Advanced Excel skills for inventory tracking and forecasting analyses.

• Knowledge of SAP is an asset

Language:

• Fluency in French is required

Competencies:

• Ability to work independently; quick learner

• Marked aptitude for teamwork, communication, and interpersonal relations

• Capacity for tactful, diplomatic communication with clients, over the telephone or written

• Very high attention to details

• Ability to utilize technical and business knowledge and good judgment to make simple business decisions and escalate complex issues for resolution

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to organize, evaluate, and report relevant data to stakeholders

• Comfortable preparing concise dashboards and executive summaries.

• Ability to plan meetings, act as facilitator, and lead meetings for non-complex customer solutions.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

04/29/2026

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