Continuous Improvement Advisor - Temporary
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This position sits within the Strategic Procurement (SP) branch in the Centre of Excellence (COE) team.
The Continuous Improvement Advisor, Strategic Procurement i
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s responsible for driving continuous improvement across the end to end Source to Contract (S2C) lifecycle by simplifying processes, strengthening governance, improving user experience, and enabling data driven decision making. The role identifies inefficiencies and improvement opportunities through process analysis, stakeholder feedback, and performance data, and translates them into standardized, scalable solutions. The position also supports procurement effectiveness by continuously evolving the procurement contract ecosystem and by designing and maintaining analytics, dashboards, and reporting processes that provide visibility into performance, adoption, cycle times, and compliance, and that inform continuous improvement priorities.
The opportunity is based at Air Canada’s Montreal Headquarters in Dorval.
Responsibilities:
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across procurement using process analysis, user feedback, operational pain points and performance data to drive simplification, standardization and optimization of sourcing, contracting and governance processes.
• Design, create and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor performance, identify inefficiencies, and support data driven improvements: Understand data and use findings to identify and implement scalable processes and enhancements that reduce complexity, improve turnaround times, and increase adoption of standard processes.
• Leverage structured methodologies, automation, AI, and analytics to identify inefficiencies, forecast trends and drive actionable improvements.
• Develop foundational documents such as process maps, frameworks, standards and performance baselines to support procurement transformation.
• Build strong relationships across procurement, legal, finance, and business units to foster collaboration and alignment and influence stakeholders to adopt new practices.
• Evolve the procurement contract ecosystem, including contract templates, playbooks, review workflows, and exemption processes with multiple branches (Legal, Tax, Insurance, Cybersecurity, Privacy, AI, etc); Conduct regular assessments, workshops, diagnostics and evaluations to gather feedback, identify areas for improvement, and refine strategies.
• Support the rollout and enhancement of procurement tools, ensuring process alignment, documentation, and user readiness.
• Standardize sourcing toolkits (templates, evaluation models, decision summaries) so category teams spend less time rebuilding and more time executing.
• Design Source-to-Contract workflows (intake → evaluation → award → contracting) that reduce friction and variation across categories.
• Creates analysis standards (e.g., RFx comparison models, cost breakdown logic) to improve quality and consistency of supplier evaluations.
• Communicate improvement goals, progress, and impact to leadership and cross-functional teams.
Qualifications
• University degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in procurement, operations, or process improvement roles.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, systems, and performance metrics.
• Experience applying continuous improvement methodologies.
• Familiarity with AI tools, automation platforms, and data analytics technologies.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and drive change in a matrix organization.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite and process mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Miro).
• Exper