Procurement Leader

2 weeks ago

Sydney Inner Suburbs, Australia Suncorp Group Full time

**Procurement Leader - Benefits and Business Improvement**
- **11-month max term contract**:

- **Brisbane location preferred, also open to Sydney.**

**About the role**:
The primary purpose of this role is to support the ongoing optimisation of procurement processes including the governance and oversight of the procurement benefits methodology and framework.

**Key objectives include;**
- To drive and deliver business process design optimisation across procurement that is aligned to procurement priorities and group strategy.
- To provide governance and oversight over benefits methodology and framework used to drive and accurately report the procurement benefits delivered through the Procurement Program of Work to senior stakeholders.
- Collaboration across and within teams to build strong relationships with stakeholders to match the right solution to each stakeholders needs.
- Contribution to team, business and group priories with a sense of purpose.
- Know and clarifies expectations, takes accountability to resolve problems and set high personal standards to deliver timely results in a changing environment.
- Build strong relationships and work effectively in a diverse and flexible team.
- Keeps things simple while driving innovation, removing blockages and anticipates and adapts to changing priorities and business challenges.
- Managing quality and helps pro-actively identify and manage risks and issues

**More specifically, you will**:
**Benefits**:
The Group Procurement function is accountable for major spend with third party suppliers, the accountability of this team is to maximise the opportunities to drive value from our Supplier relationships, support to mitigate and minimise our risk exposure and ensure good commercial terms are negotiated for Suncorp.

This role provides strategic thought leadership to the Procurement team on the Framework and Governance of benefits, includes being responsible for facilitating the developing the program of work, in collaboration with the procurement team to identify and prioritise initiatives that deliver value for the business.
- Accountable for the Benefits Guide and contributing to building agreed methodology.
- Monthly and Annual procurement pipeline and benefit reporting.
- Lead in educating and reporting benefits in the Procurement team
- Collaboration with Finance
- Pipeline or project prioritisation
- Identify and lead opportunities for innovation in benefits reporting ie: ability to report by functional business.

**Business Improvement**:

- Design and implement improvement initiatives in collaboration and alignment with Procurement Systems and business Strategy.
- To design business processes delivering value to the customer and the group.
- Identification of process inefficiency root causes and design of proposed improvement solutions.
- Manage pipeline of process improvement initiatives and recommend prioritisation of initiatives based on impact and benefit.
- Optimisation of business processes through the deployment of Lean process improvement methodology.
- Communication and engagement with all stakeholders including initiative sponsors
- Training/mentoring team members - coaching and developing their knowledge
- Measuring, tracking and communicating results of improvement initiatives.
- Lead and participate in business process requirements and design workshops.
- Perform analysis of data, processes and systems to identify ongoing improvements and enhancements in process and technology.
- Assist with the prep and delivery of communication to end users
- Change management in relation to initiatives

**About you**:

- Degree in business, commerce, engineering or related field -Desired
- Procurement/supply chain related qualification -Desired
- Continuous Improvement / Lean / Six Sigma certification or equivalent -Desired
- Business analysis or project management qualifications -Desired
- Sound knowledge of basic financial accounting principles and models (mandatory).
- Project management and change management experience including the ability to navigate and influence in a complex environment (mandatory).
- Experience in setting up and managing a Benefits Framework (highly desirable).
- Experience in planning and tactical implementation of continuous improvement.
- Sounds understanding of data analysis and reporting tools used for problem solving and reporting.
- 5 + years Procurement experience across multiple industry sectors.
- Financial Industry Experience (desirable).

**Key Competencies**:

- Customer focused outcomes
- Expert excel and reporting capability
- Good stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to influence and engage with all levels in the organisation
- Strategic procurement planning and relentless execution capabilities
- Ability to oversee implementation of best practice procurement and system documentation and processes and oversee the delivery of continuous improvements programmes
- Technical knowledge in supply chain, sourcing, c

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