Procurement and Contracts Advisor

2 weeks ago


Canberra, ACT, Australia ClearCompany Full time
  • 12+6 Month Federal Government Contractor
  • Ability to obtain a Baseline Clearance
  • Canberra city location with remote capability

About the Role:

Our Client is seeking to engage an adviser to join the ICT Contracts and Procurement team, with a focus on software licensing procurement and management. Motivated candidates with a strong response to the mandatory requirements who are seeking to expand their experience to include in depth software management are encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will have experience in:

  • Establishing and maintaining Effective Licencing Positions (ELPs), that reconcile licence entitlements against licence consumption across the organisations software portfolio.
  • Leading and conducting software audits, including licence true-ups for major software suppliers such as Microsoft and Adobe.
  • Ensuring AMSA remains compliant with its licencing obligations while minimising unnecessary licence costs.
  • Managing software related contracts, leading new software procurements and negotiating software renewals (including SaaS and other Cloud technologies).
  • Coordinating licence re-harvesting exercises, highlighting and recording any savings
  • Assisting in managing AMSAs software budget, highlighting and avoiding unnecessary spending.
  • Keeping up to date with new software products and amendments to licence terms and conditions.

Mandatory Requirements:

  • Sound knowledge of the Australian Government Financial Framework, including the Commonwealth Procurement Rules and their application.
  • Experience managing complex procurements in a government setting, including approvals, requirements gathering, evaluation, negotiations and contract closure.
  • Experience providing specialist procurement and contract management advice.
  • Previous experience with government buying processes.
  • Experience managing licensing for key strategic vendors such as Microsoft (including enterprise and volume licencing) and Adobe.
  • Experience working with budgets, specifically around licence forecasting and ongoing spend reporting.
  • ITIL Foundation v3 / v4.
  • Certified Software Asset Management Certificate.

To apply for this position please contact Jon at Recruitment Hive on or click the apply button to send your interest and receive a full copy of the job description.

Job ID JB9515 closes on Friday 21st June at Midday.


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