The Construction Technology Platform Manager - Material Planning & Purchasing is accountable for maximizing the business value, operational consistency, and long-term strategic impact of Modern Niagara's technology ecosystem supporting project material planning, material-demand forecasting, purchasing, and procurement. This role owns the domain roadmap, governance model, prioritization framework, product backlog, and value-realization strategy, while also ensuring the day-to-day health and effective operation of the supporting platforms.
Why This Role Matters to Modern Niagara
Material planning and purchasing directly affect site readiness, productivity, cost control, supply continuity, and operational visibility. This role provides clear ownership for the technology and workflows supporting these processes, aligns priorities across Operations, Construction Technology, IT, Finance, Analytics, Manufacturing, and project teams, and ensures the domain produces consistent execution and reliable data.
Key Impact / Purpose
- Set and maintain the domain vision, technology roadmap, governance model, and priorities for material planning, purchasing, and procurement.
- Translate project and operational needs into scalable platform capabilities, workflows, integrations, standards, and adoption priorities.
- Measure domain performance and value through adoption, process compliance, data quality, workflow efficiency, demand visibility, and operational outcomes.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the technology roadmaps for material planning, material demand forecasting, purchasing, and procurement, balancing immediate project needs with long-term domain maturity.
- Evaluate enhancements, new capabilities, releases, pilots, integrations, and process-redesign opportunities, and develop business cases for major investments.
- Establish and maintain domain governance, including decision rights, intake processes, prioritization rules, escalation paths, and approval forums.
- Own and prioritize the domain backlog across enhancements, workflow changes, reporting needs, integrations, adoption improvements, and support requirements.
- Gather requirements from Operations, project teams, Finance, IT, Data, Analytics, Manufacturing, and executive stakeholders, then communicate priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing decisions.
- Define outcomes and KPIs related to adoption, process compliance, data completeness, workflow cycle times, demand visibility, purchasing performance, reporting, and value realization.
- Manage platform configuration, workflow standards, permissions, templates, documentation, training, onboarding, functional support, and recurring issue resolution across the domain.
- Partner with IT, Analytics, Integration Specialists, and Data Engineers to define requirements for ERP, Power BI, scheduling, labour planning, fabrication, service, and other connected systems.
- Assess product releases and technology changes for operational, technical, training, governance, integration, and data impacts, then lead testing and rollout readiness.
- Lead the domain adoption strategy, define expectations for good usage, identify barriers, and ensure adoption improves process consistency, project execution, and decision-making.
Must Haves
- Degree or diploma in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Technology Management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of construction operations and platform experience.
- 7 to 12+ years of experience in construction operations, construction technology, project delivery, business systems, material management, procurement, digital transformation, or platform ownership.
- Strong experience with construction, material planning, purchasing, procurement, or comparable enterprise workflow platforms.
- Demonstrated experience defining roadmaps, managing backlogs, leading governance, or owning business requirements for enterprise systems.
- Strong understanding of construction material planning, demand forecasting, purchasing, procurement, field operations, project controls, and project lifecycle processes.
- Strong stakeholder leadership, facilitation, decision-making, communication, and change-leadership skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Working knowledge of ERP, reporting, middleware, APIs, cloud databases, analytics environments, data flows, and integration dependencies.
- Ability to work primarily in an office environment with frequent weekly site engagement and regular movement through active construction environments.
Nice to Haves
- Experience supporting multiple projects, regions, departments, or business units.
- Experience with material-demand forecasting, purchasing controls, procurement workflows, fabrication or manufacturing supply processes, and ERP-connected transactions.
- Experience with Power BI reporting, integrations, enterprise analytics, data governance, or master-data practices.
- Experience developing business cases, value-realization measures, prioritization frameworks, and executive performance reporting.
- Experience leading enterprise adoption, release evaluation, platform pilots, training programs, or cross-functional operating-model design.
This is a new position. Expected annual compensation; $120,000 - $140,000
Modern Niagara offers a competitive total compensation package including:
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan with a generous employer contribution.
- Flexible Health and Dental benefits with tiered options to meet the needs of you and your family.
- An annual health spending account to support your overall wellness.
- 24/7 confidential support through our Employee and Family Assistance Program, with access to comprehensive resources and professional services.
- A competitive vacation package with additional vacation granted throughout your tenure with the organization.
- Employer Paid Parental Leave Top Up.
- An annual Community Day dedicated to volunteering and giving back to the communities where we live and work.
- Corporate discounts through various vendors across Canada, including fitness, mobile phones, travel, and home and auto insurance.
Here at Modern Niagara, because we know our people are the best in the industry, we pride ourselves on providing a total compensation package that rewards employees for their hard work and supports employees and their families in their overall wellbeing.
About Modern Niagara
Who We Are
Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, and electrical needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure - and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal. We build for life.
Our Culture & Values
We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do, and our award-winning safety culture consistently performs well above industry standards.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Modern Niagara
We are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization where everyone has access to opportunity, feels a sense of belonging, and can thrive. We actively work to remove barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (including women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada) in the construction industry. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and are committed to a barrier-free hiring process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at careers@modernniagara.com so we can make appropriate arrangements.
We appreciate every applicant’s interest in joining Modern Niagara. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
