Title: Procurement & Logistics Specialist
Reports to: Manager, Procurement & Logistics
Job Type: Full Time Seasonal (May through October)
Location: Inverness, Nova Scotia, B0E 1N0
The Cabot Collection
The Cabot Collection is a luxury developer of exceptional golf destinations. Its portfolio of world-class getaways includes the award-winning Cabot Cape Breton in Nova Scotia; Cabot Saint Lucia on the northern tip of Saint Lucia; Cabot Citrus Farms in Central West Florida; Cabot Highlands in Inverness, Scotland; Cabot Revelstoke in British Columbia; and Cabot Bordeaux in the southwest of France. Cabot continues to build upon a legacy of excellence in luxury resort and residential offerings across each unique property, where owners and guests have access to a well-rounded suite of destination-specific experiences and an unparalleled quality of service.
Cabot Cape Breton
Situated on over a mile of sandy beach along Cape Breton's coast, Cabot’s pioneering destination spans 770 acres between the Atlantic Ocean and the charming town of Inverness. Cabot Cape Breton offers 46 holes of thrilling golf and is renowned as one of Canada’s top resort experiences. Home to two World Top 100 courses—Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs, ranked nos. 39 and 10 respectively by Golf Digest—it also features a 10-hole short course, 72 award-winning rooms at Cabot Links Lodge, 19 upscale villas, 30 luxury homes, exquisite dining across three restaurants, and a variety of off-course activities. Conde Nast Traveler ranked Cabot Cape Breton no. 4 in its 2024 readers’ choice awards for top Canadian resorts.
If you join our team, you will live our values:
Confidence, Authenticity, Humility, Warmth
Position Overview
As Procurement & Logistics Specialist, working alongside the Manager of Procurement & Logistics, you are responsible for the strategic sourcing and purchasing of materials and services. This role is also responsible for inventory management ensuring we have optimal inventory levels. Furthermore, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of our busy Shipping & Receiving Team, with a strong focus on coordinating the receiving of ordered goods at our facility’s primary and secondary warehouses, and ensuring items requisitioned internally from all departments are distributed from warehouses to their intended destinations.
You will thrive in this role if you enjoy:
- Organization and Planning: Managing schedules, coordinating shipments, and keeping records organized.
- Multitasking: Handling multiple shipments and requests simultaneously while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Teamwork: Collaborating with other departments, such as purchasing and warehouse staff, to ensure operations are efficient.
- Problem-Solving: Addressing issues like shipping delays, inventory discrepancies, or damaged goods efficiently.
- Attention to Detail: Accurately tracking shipments, inventory levels, and documentation.
- Physical Activity: Depending on the role, some lifting, packing, or moving items may be involved.
Core Competencies:
Procurement & Inventory Control
- Train, manage, and schedule shipping and receiving assistants.
- Create, plan and lead the procurement process for multi-disciplinary procurement projects. Involves maintaining required inventory for multiple departments including but not limited to, housekeeping and administration.
- Place and monitor purchase orders to meet required inventory, delivery deadlines, and budgetary confinement.
- Issue orders to departments as needed while ensuring accurate home cost centre is recorded for finance.
- Work closely with project managers updating team with order request and tracking information.
- Maintain and file supporting documentation for purchase orders in a clear and concise fashion.
- Help to determine and document desired inventory levels.
- Request and interpret pricing quotes from various sources and suppliers.
- Resolve routine delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices.
- Monitor the quality, lead time and level of customer service provided by each supplier.
- Arrange necessary project resources to ensure timely project completion.
- Interact with guests when required & any related operational team members.
Relationship Builder
- Develop and maintain close and effective working relationships with vendors and all supporting departments, particularly with Maintenance, Housekeeping, and Food and Beverage.
Administration
- Utilize inventory management software to manage and track supplies and par level needs of the resort.
- Utilize Asana to track, update, and monitor hotel maintenance issues including glitches.
- Assist with the shipping and tracking of any hotel guest lost & found items in coordination with the Housekeeping department.
- Field incoming calls / emails from affiliated vendors, team members, and guests.
Preferred qualifications and skills:
• A bachelor’s degree or diploma with 2+ years’ experience in procurement, supply chain management.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate and deliver cost savings.
- Knowledge of inventory management.
- Ability to work collaboratively across departments.
Requirements of the role you should be aware of:
- Based on the nature of our business and the service we provide to our guests, to work with us, you must consent to a criminal background check as a condition of employment and an additional criminal background check every two years.
- As a seasonal resort business, you can anticipate a schedule that will involve day, evening, night, and weekend work.
- Able to work long hours, be flexible and work well under pressure.
- Ability to spend long hours moving around, walking, sitting, standing.
- Ascending or descending stairs and ramps.
- Occasional kneeling, pushing, pulling, lifting.
- Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up-to 25 pounds of force frequently or constantly lift, carry, push, or otherwise move objects.
Our Benefits
- Access to learning & training opportunities to build your career.
- $10 green fees
- Complimentary Family Golf Round
- Friends and Family Rates for Golf and Lodging
- Discounts in our Retail Shops & Restaurants
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program
- Subsidized Team Housing, based on availability.
- Healthcare benefits for permanent and returning seasonal team members.