The Director, Market Intelligence and Supply Chain Management leads the practice that translates macroeconomic analysis into procurement and sourcing decisions. The discipline is grounded in senior industry experience in Alberta’s energy sector, where the role encompassed leading a team of supply chain and market intelligence advisors, delivering quarterly market intelligence to executives and category management professionals across crude oil, natural gas, electricity, and commodity markets, and supervising a network of third-party commercial data providers. That intelligence was consolidated into real-time dashboards, a monthly market publication, and a daily trading report prepared for the chief executive. Complementary experience in rail freight added depth in logistics, transportation economics, and regulatory costing.
The practice covers four connected areas. Spend and category analytics identify where cost is genuinely avoidable rather than merely deferred, across sourcing strategies spanning substantial annual spend. Should-cost modelling benchmarks supplier pricing against current and forecast market prices. Supplier and counterparty intelligence maps the commercial relationships between manufacturers, distributors, and buyers, and supports negotiations touching mergers, insolvency, and geopolitical risk. Procurement risk assurance builds the registry, mitigations, owners, and business continuity alignment that make exposure visible before it becomes loss, including trade-measure analysis on major capital projects, and supplier audit review for health, safety, environmental, and Indigenous inclusion performance.