Procurement Partner

**Hybrid Working **#LI-Hybrid**:

- **Full time Parental leave fixed term contract for 16-18 months (based on 38 hours per week)**:

- **Monthly RDO**:

- **Salary: $97k - $105k + Super**:

- **Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) within Local Government**

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council of 175,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our council area sits within the banks of the Merri Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek, and includes Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park and Pascoe Vale. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, cultural diversity, creative industries and the arts. Our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, social justice, community wellbeing, and creating great places. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep.

Merri-bek Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engaging and supporting the Merri-bek community. Our organisational vision is to be one team, brave and diverse, making a difference.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing our staff work/life balance. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food, cafés, parks and a cinema right at the doorstep. Merri-bek is a great place to live, work and play.

**About the role**:
This is fixed term parental leave replacement.

The Procurement team at Merri-bek City Council is customer-centric, high performing team, focussed on optimising supply chain processes and costs for our organisation. We are seeking enthusiastic, driven, and innovative people to help us turn our goals into actions.

The business partnering role is an integral part of our model. Reporting to the Unit Manager Procurement, you will be integral to supporting the design and execution of our strategic procurement plan. The focus will be providing high level advice on procurement and contracting activities to achieve value for money and mutually beneficial outcomes for Council within a robust governance framework. The role will partner with stakeholders and take accountability for the effective delivery of procurement strategies including aligning procurement plan, contract management, category management, and incorporating social, environmental and economic sustainability objectives, and targets into projects and programs**.**

**Skills and experience require to perform the role**:

- Tertiary qualification in business, commerce, procurement, or related qualification
- Experience in similar procurement lead or partner role
- Demonstrated experience in procurement, contract management and strong contract administration skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders and effectively partnering to influence decision-making and build effective relationships
- Demonstrated experience co-ordinating and evaluating tenders as well as developing, reviewing and editing a wide range of tender and contract documents
- Ability to effectively manage time and prioritise work
- Highly developed verbal reasoning, and written and oral communication skills
- Sound understanding of contract law
- Proven knowledge of computer systems for tenders and contract management, including but not limited to advanced capabilities in MS Word, MS Excel

**What the role can offer**:

- Monthly RDO
- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes
- Wellness programs

**Further support offered for our staff**:

- Up to 20 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**For further information about this position please contact Kennedy Chacha on 9304 9729.**

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Wednesday, 15 May 2024.**

**How to apply**:

- Please note that some documents relating to this position may reference Moreland City Council. We are in the process of updating the councils new name of Merri-bek City Council.

Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve. With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.

**Our Commitment**:
In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality. The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung p