Claire Caloren

Claire Caloren started as Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Acquisitions Branch, on June 23, 2014. She is working with the Assistant Deputy Minister in managing a team of over 2,000 employees and delivering an average of more than $12B in acquisitions for 140 government departments and agencies.

Ms. Caloren has over 20 years of experience in the Public Service, both at Headquarters and in a region. She has been at PWGSC since 2011, most recently as Associate ADM of Accounting, Banking and Compensation where she was responsible for leading public service pay and pension transformation. Prior to that, she held the position of Director General, Commercial Acquisitions and Supply Management in the Acquisitions Branch where she was responsible for leading the planning and delivery of procurement services for a wide range of goods and services on behalf of government departments.

Along with the Assistant Deputy Minister and the Acquisitions Branch team, Ms. Caloren will lead projects and initiatives to support PWGSC's mission to deliver high-quality services and programs that meet the needs of federal organizations while ensuring sound stewardship on behalf of Canadians. These projects focus on the improvement and transformation of the procurement function to better support PWGSC's mission.  She is currently leading the Smart Procurement Initiative, an IT-enabled business transformation.  This initiative involves a review of business processes, including standardizing and streamlining, applying Lean principles and applying the Smart procurement approach (early engagement, effective governance, independent advice and benefits for Canadian) in the procurement functions. This business transformation will be enabled with the acquisition of an e Procurement solution in order to realize efficiencies, improve client service, reduce cost and process burdens for clients and suppliers and to effectively manage and provide sound stewardship of the $12B annual Government of Canada contract spend, to obtain best value for Canadians.