Procurement Leader

2 weeks ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Suncorp Group Full time

Procurement Leader - Banking & Real Estate
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Fixed term contract - 3 months:


  • Flexible Location -Brisbane

About the role:

The role exists to deliver procurement category management across Suncorp's Banking & Real Estate Procurement Portfolio. It will require the development of Category, Sourcing Plans and implementing subsequent sourcing/negotiation initiatives.

This activity is to be enabled by a professional with a strong procurement knowledge and experience with relevant categories, associated commercials and strong stakeholder management skills.


Key Accountabilities:

Strategic initiatives
The role is responsible for developing and implementing Category plans, sourcing strategies and/or negotiation strategies that:

  • Gather appropriate market and industry intelligence about categories in scope
  • Analyse and summarise existing contracts and current spend
  • Align to Function strategies and/or business requirements
  • Identify initiatives that derive benefits, through sourcing, demand management and/or contract management opportunities
  • Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, interdependencies and potential benefits
  • Leverage strong collaborative supplier relationships and supplier innovation, which enable additional value for Suncorp
  • Define appropriate supply models for each category of spend
  • Align Supplier and Suncorp processes to drive efficiencies for both parties
  • Determine the roles & responsibilities between Procurement and stakeholders within relevant Function; this will involve an assessment of complexity, existing intellectual property, risk, legal requirements, budget ownership and other relevant factors
  • Establish contracts that are competitive, reduce risk and optimise supply through appropriate SLAs
  • Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance

Maintenance of Suppliers and Contracts
The role is responsible for managing a category of existing suppliers and contracts, with the aim of:

  • Planning for a pipeline of contract renewal activity
  • Ensuring contract renewals are competitive, delivered through an appropriate supply model and well scoped
  • Execute extensions, variations and terminations of legal instruments that meet stakeholders' business needs
  • Monitor leakage indicators and propose viable solutions to category owners and business owners
  • Map and identify opportunities to improve demand management
  • Resolve supplier disputes that have been escalated or are of a systematic or strategic nature
  • Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance

About you:

  • Tertiary education is highly desirable, with a Procurement & Supply Chain focus or an Information Technology, Business or Commerce related degree. Desired
  • Experienced procurement professional with minimum of 5 years' experience in procurement category management. Mandatory
  • Experience with Banking, Facilities Management or Technology services type agreements. Desired
  • Experience in large organisations with complex environments. Desired
  • Experience in a centre led procurement/commercial environment providing services to a broad customer base. Desired
  • Experienced in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results. Mandatory
  • Experience in conducting data analysis to support negotiations and commercial results. Mandatory
  • Experience in delivering quality outputs within tight timeframes within a standardised project management framework and structured procurement approach. Mandatory
  • Experience in working with others in a (preferably commercial) strategy setting role. Mandatory

Key Competencies

Procurement (Advanced)

  • Experience across various procurement activities including category management and strategic sourcing
  • Strong negotiation skills demonstrated across a range of supplier, commercial and internal stakeholder management contexts

Analytics (Intermediate)

  • Analytical business skills
  • Displays financial / commercial acumen and seasoned business judgment
  • Demonstrate experience in understanding and extracting benefits out of value chains
  • Exhibit value chain analysis knowledge to assist the business meet their objectives

General Business (Advanced)

  • Verbal and written communication skills including presentation and communications to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) level as required
  • Time management skills and ability to manage several concurrent tasks with differing timelines and deliverables
  • Ability to cope with pressure, prioritise workload and meet agreed timetables

Legal (Advanced)

  • Understand legal, regulatory and contractual frameworks
  • Experienced in formulating and reviewing legal contractual documents and schedules under guidance

Logistics (Intermediate)

  • Understand Asset Management principles including total cost of ownership
  • Understand the impact of Supply Chain structures and cost drivers
**Management and Leadership (Advanced)

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