Procurement Category Specialist

4 weeks ago

Bella Vista, Australia Woolworths Full time

**About Woolworths Group**

Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.

**Procurement Specialist - Capital Projects, Supply Chain
- Full time, permanent role with attractive base salary + bonus
- Amazing opportunity to develop your career as a Category Specialist in our Procurement Team
- Work alongside an engagement-focused, collaborative, proactive, passionate and fun team
- Hybrid role based in our Bella Vista office with excellent facilities and employee benefits

**About Us**
Our Procurement Team is an enterprise-wide function that provides thought leadership, best practice advice and a value add service to our business partners. Our Portfolio Team provides excellent customer experiences to our stakeholders through driving commercially focused, fit for purpose outcomes and improvements across the business.
We operate in a fast-paced environment with entrepreneurial-minded professionals who work collaboratively to build relationships, to achieve results, and to be the leaders in the market. Our point of difference is that we are part of Australia’s largest retailer allowing us to provide unparalleled career opportunities.

**About the Role**
Our Portfolio operates primarily to support major Capex projects which are shaping the future of Woolworth’s Supply Chain (Primary Connect), including automated material handling equipment installations with related service and maintenance, and other fit out installations required within our Primary Connect ecosystem.

**How you will add value**
Reporting through to the Portfolio Manager - you will:

- Coordinate, create, prepare strategic deliverables for our portfolio including Sourcing Plans, Recommendation Packs, Transaction Approval requests.
- Develop, implement and manage vendor performance metrics, documents and reporting as part of a Supplier Relationship Management plan.
- Support complex contract negotiations, document and track action logs, maintain progress to meet execution deadlines.
- Prepare contract schedules and other annexures relevant to in flight negotiations.
- Lead the Contract Management process (administration, development, execution, mmanagement) and manage the central repository for portfolio contracts.
- Support our portfolio team with administrative activities during RFx programs, with the opportunity to also lead such projects as appropriate.
- Collaborate with procurement business partners to achieve desired outcomes.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of all category influences.
- Initiate and proactively maintain consistent and professional engagement with key stakeholders.
- Obtain data from varied sources to identify and support fact-driven opportunities. Ensure analysis is accurate, comprehensive and robust.
- Conduct market analysis to drive category strategies.
- Conduct risk management analysis and take action as required.

**What you will bring**
- 3 - 5 years experience in management consulting at a consultant or senior consultant level is highly valued, alternatively experience as a supply chain or procurement specialist or similar business professional role.
- Preferably tertiary qualified in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Commerce, Arts, Business Administration, Project Management or similar disciplines.
- Demonstrate that you can create / prepare / deliver quality presentation material which succinctly communicates insights and key messages to senior executive management.
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy (particularly in relation to contract reviews and preparation of analysis).
- High level of commercial acumen is important, including appreciation of total cost of ownership principles and value levers.
- You are self-reliant, proactive, action oriented, outcome focused, with a continuous improvement mindset.
- You have strong organisational skills with an ability to prioritise and juggle conflicting demands.
- An understanding of contract law, and/or an interest in developing your skills in this area.
- Negotiation skills are well regarded but will also be mentored and trained.

**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equalit

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