Commercial and Procurement Lead

7 months ago


Bendigo, Australia Coliban Water Full time

**Description**:
Looking for a role where your commercial and procurement skills can support your community?

This year, marks 100 years since we began treating the wastewater from sinks, toilets and drains at the Bendigo and Castlemaine Water Reclamation Plants. Fast forward a century, and we have big plans to ensure these critical pieces of infrastructure continue to underpin our community’s health, and support growth and success for the future.

To help us, we’re looking for a three year fixed-term Commercial and Procurement Lead to play an integral role in effectively coordinating the Procurement and Contract Management functions of Coliban Water’s Bendigo & Castlemaine Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) Program.

This specialised role is a key part of the management team and is vital to the success of the program. You’ll be responsible for managing end‐to‐end procurement activities, compliance and risk management, document preparation and detailed reporting - while at the same time ensuring operational excellence, sustainability, and continuous improvement of the program. Your sound analytical and financial skills will play a big role in the success in this position.

A snapshot of your day

Lead commercial and contract development & review of program delivery, including tenders, renewals, and partnerships for complex projects (design, construction, operations and maintenance of infrastructure assets).
Provide commercial leadership, advice and support to the team throughout the project management lifecycle with key commercial activities including procurement and contract management.
Provide direct support to the Program Director and Program and Project Managers and take the lead on providing advisory services to stakeholders, including providing leadership and support across commercial, procurement and contract management.
Support and deliver transformational change across commercial requirements, Procurement and Contract Management activities as part of Coliban Water’s Big Water Build.
Prepare contracts, risk registers, timelines and budgets relating to procurement and commercial requirements.
Compliance reviews of tender documentation development and evaluation as needed.
Identifying and reporting potential probity risks and proposing solutions
Manage end‐to‐end procurement including go-to-market activities, contract preparation and execution while driving commercial, environmental, and social outcomes.
Prepare comprehensive project briefs, stakeholder submissions, budgets and reports.

You’ll be an analytical professional, an excellent communicator and problem-solver, have a strong work ethic and is keen to grow your career in an organisation doing work that matters to its community.

Sound like you? We’d love to hear from you.

Why join us?

At Coliban Water our people are on a mission to create a better life for our customers and communities - now and tomorrow.

We love what we do and our location in the centre of a region that takes in 49 towns from Trentham to Echuca.

Our commitment to inclusion means you’ll feel at home here no matter who you are, who you love, or what you stand for. As part of the team you receive a monthly accrued day off, time off over Christmas, the flexibility to shape your work to suit your lifestyle, and generous parental, carer and workplace study leave policies.

At Coliban Water we balance a small team rhythm with the reach and resources of one of the largest Victorian regional urban water corporations.

What are you waiting for? We’d love you to join us.

To manage the risk of exposure to preventable disease, it is a compulsory requirement of the position to be vaccinated against Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Tetanus.

Applicants will need to successfully complete all core training requirements in the expected timeframes and may be required to undertake a Police Check, Working with Children Check, Pre-Employment Medicals or Psychometric testing where applicable. Applicants may also be required to produce evidence of their Right to Work in Australia.


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