Pros
Excellent department until procurement management started turning over in 2013. It was a great company to grow with in the first few years but quickly faltered and disappointed. A good pay was motivating. Some opportunity to move up however it was without training or official job title changes. Management notorious to delay official promotion paperwork and the employee is left putting in a lot of effort that is not compensated fairly.
Cons
Constant turnover of management. Too many layers of management. Too many procedures updates to read and not a very good notification system making it difficult to fulfill. You don't find out about non-conformance until it's too late usually by audit. Too many meetings that are NOT organized. Waste of time. Ex-pats refuse to adhere to Canadian Law when it comes to procurement. Other departments interference with vendors and negotiate terms and conditions they don't understand. Moving up the ladders exists today only if you brown-nose management. They are extremely sensitive and are quick to get rid of you if you do not "bow down". They encourage disrespectful treatment of vendors and staff in general...unless you are said brown-nosers. Management antics ("professionalism" is reserved for intelligent and people with integrity) have led to poor rapport with the local market...vendors, employees, clients, whole supply chain. There is a trend with current management to keep junior people that do not know Canadian Law for procurement well enough. Also management will promote from within but the employees (ex-pats to boot) moving up are no subject experts. Management is shifty and questionable. Dealings with them should be with caution.