Procurement Officer

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

- **Full time permanent role (based on 35 hours per week)**:

- **Fortnightly RDO**:

- **Exciting change agenda and fantastic new team**:

- **Salary: $81k - $92k + Super**:

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

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek is a progressive council with 180,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, array of fabulous festivals, cool pools, eclectic shops and our community of artists and creative industries. As a Council, we’ve been supporting our community through difficult times, and our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, community wellbeing, and creating great places.

Merri-bek City Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engagement with, the Merri-bek community. 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 City Council is a great place to live, work and play.

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. **Our organisation vision is: One team brave and diverse making a difference.**

**About the role**:
The Procurement team at Merri-bek City Council are transforming as we embark on a journey to become a customer-centric, high performing team, focussed on delivering exceptional value for our organisation. We have a refreshed strategy in place after a recent change in the organisational structure. We are seeking enthusiastic, driven, and innovative people to help us turn our goals into actions.
The Procurement Officer role is an integral part of our current model. This position would report into the Unit Manager Procurement, supporting the execution of our strategic plan. The focus will be to provide administrative support and advice in Council’s procurement, tendering, and contract management activities. The role ensures Council adheres to procurement policy and procedures.

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

- Tertiary qualification in procurement, commerce, accounting or related field, coupled with some practical experience or; significant relevant experience in procurement, tendering and contracting activities
- Ability to provide accurate and informed routine advice on procurement, tendering and contract management
- Proven knowledge of computer systems for tenders and contract management
- Advanced capabilities in MS Word, MS Excel
- Ability to effectively manage time and prioritise work to ensure timeframes and work standards are met efficiently, on time and with the resources available
- Demonstrated well developed interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to liaise, consult, provide advice and negotiate along with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders including suppliers
- Analytical mindset and problem solving, solution focused skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication

**What the role can offer**:

- Fortnightly 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

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Wednesday, 9 August 2023.**

**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 people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.

Merri-bek City Council is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and has zero tolerance for child abuse. We believe children and young people have the right to be and feel safe and that their safety and wellbeing is the responsibility of everyone. You can read more about our Child Safety Commitment Statement on our website.