Procurement Specialist

4 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Mars Recruitment Full time

Procurement Leader

Permanent Role/Flexible Location - Sydney/Brisbane

About the role:
The role exists to deliver procurement category management across the organisation. It will require the development of category plans, sourcing and negotiation, and ongoing management of existing contracts. A good working knowledge of the relevant supply chains and associated commercials, and strong stakeholder management skills are advantages for the role.

What you’ll do:
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
- Analyse and summarise existing contracts and current spend
- Align to Function strategies and/or business requirements
- Derive financial or operational benefits, through cost savings, operational efficiency and/or demand management.
- Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, inter-dependencies and potential benefits
- Nurture strong, collaborative supplier relationships and supplier innovation, which enable additional value.
- Understand and help define 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

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 defined
- Manage supplier performance including SLA’s governance and other contract deliverables
- Execute extensions, variations and terminations of contracts that meet stakeholders’ business needs
- Monitor spend 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

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 experience in procurement category management.
- Experienced in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results. Mandatory
- Experience across various procurement activities including vendor management and strategic sourcing
- Strong negotiation skills demonstrated across a range of supplier, commercial and internal stakeholder management contexts
- Verbal and written communication skills



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