Executive Head of Procurement

3 days ago

Brisbane, Australia Hinchen Resources Full time

**Head of Procurement**
- Iconic & market leading construction materials organisation
- Outstanding career opportunity for an Industrial Services CPO
- Rem Circa $300,000

Our client is the largest integrated construction materials company in Australia, producing and selling a broad range of construction materials, including quarry products, cement, concrete, asphalt and recycled materials. Employing circa 5,000 employees and contractors nationally, their extensive footprint includes some 356 operating sites nationally.

Today they are seeking to appoint a **Head** of Procurement **to lead the implementation of the procurement strategy, by proactively and tactically leading a team of talented procurement practitioners to deliver best in class outcomes for this iconic organisation, whilst taking full accountability for their procurement under management spend function of circa $1.5 billion.

**Your key responsibilities will include**:

- Proactively leading the integration of the organizational procurement strategy
- Creation and management of short, mid, and long term goals and objectives to deliver on the strategy
- Creation and improvement of best-practice based processes (e.g., leadership of high-value/strategic sourcing efforts)
- Management of business process outsourcing activities
- Identification and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities
- Selection and management of procurement systems
- Management of procurement staff in (and across) sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, and miscellaneous internal procurement support activities
- Creating a talent management process in coordination with HR to ensure that the right resources are in place
- Managing the skills and competency development of procurement staff, including training development and knowledge management capabilities
- Leadership of cross-functional teaming across other business functions and initiatives
- Budget management for categories under management - and for procurement itself
- Development of benchmarks and scorecards to be used for continuous improvement
- Building a Procurement Center of Excellence to help transform Procurement, and also support broader transformation of the value chain and the enterprise

**What you will bring to this role**:

- Strong leadership - a history of success leading the procurement function for a sizeable organisation servicing the Industrial Services sector - ideally 10yrs+ as a Procurement Leader.
- A hands on and inspirational proactive leadership style who has a preference for getting into the detail
- Industry knowledge in terms of broad industry dynamics on the buy-side (and the sell-side)
- A team player approach at executive levels to collaborate with business units and functional partners
- Solid operational management expertise coupled with sound commercial skills and savvy
- A visionary and engaging leadership style
- Demonstrated experience in building a Procurement Center of Excellence to help transform Procurement for a sizeable organisation
- Transformational change management experience - including demonstrated experience navigating complexity. Proven expertise in engineering change to establish best practice processes and systems as you lead procurement staff in (and across) sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, and miscellaneous internal procurement support activities
- Demonstrated budget management experience for all categories under management, and for procurement itself
- Strong technically - with demonstrated experience in the identification and integration of fit for purpose solutions (including the removal of legacy systems)
- Working knowledge of finance and/or accounting in terms of budgeting, cost management, financial accounting, treasury, risk management, etc.
- Excellent communication skills and even better listening skills that has allowed you to get the “voice of the internal customer”, understand the company culture and identify how to best communicate procurement’s value to it
- Ability to “sell” procurement’s value and to run procurement as a services business like any other well-run professional services business
- Strong negotiation skills to use for large commercial deals
- Experience with modern sourcing and procurement systems
- Strategic mindset and problem-solving skills, with a knowledge of enterprise risk management and business continuity planning
- Analytical mindset, but also creativity to seek, encourage and find non-traditional approaches that have historically “boxed-in” procurement
- Ideally a Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, economics, finance, operations, engineering or a related area, with a Master's degree preferred

**Now what’s in it for you**
- Salary circa $300,000
- The opportunity to utilise your thought leadership, knowledge and skills as you lead the design and integration of a Procurement Centre of Excellence
- An outstandi

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