Sourcing Specialist

3 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Country Road Group Full time

**Job no**: 992962

**Work type**: Full-Time

**Location**: Melbourne - CBD & Inner

**Categories**: Procurement

**The Opportunity**

Reporting to the Group Procurement Manager, as the Non-Trade Procurement Sourcing Specialist you will plan and execute assigned sourcing projects in accordance with approved Sourcing Strategies, required quality, established processes and methodologies, ensuring delivery, endorsement and reporting of project benefit targets.

**Note: This is a 12 Month fixed term contract**

**What does the role involve?**
- Lead contracting discussions with Stakeholders and suppliers to split contracts as part of Organisational demerger project
- Spend management, contract management and overall procurement data integrity
- Develop robust data gathering and data quality maintenance protocols to ensure spend transparency and support development of baseline for sourcing efforts
- Reconcile spend reports with Contracts register to identify missing contracts, collect from stakeholders / suppliers and update contracts register
- Planning and executing assigned sourcing projects timeously in accordance with approved Sourcing Strategies, required quality, established processes and methodologies
- Facilitate the capture of specifications for procurement of good/services
- Lead cross-organizational project teams to work collaboratively and accomplish a common goal in delivering assigned tactical and operational sourcing projects
- Engage and influence across the lines of business to ensure successful project implementation, support change management and ensure adoption
- Conclude contracts with appointed suppliers in partnership with the Legal department ahead of implementation
- Optimise contractual agreements to minimize risk and cost
- Execute assigned Tail-Spend Management (TSM) activities, including spend and contract analysis, identifying and extracting incremental cost saving, operational efficiency, supplier consolidation and catalogue improvement opportunities, as well as synergies with preferred suppliers
- The implementation of new Contract Management and Sourcing systems

**Who are we looking for?**
- Strong Procurement experience in a complex environment
- Experience with any major ERP system
- Previous experience working on a demerger project desired but not essential
- Numerical, analytical and interpretive ability
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Relationship management skills
- Strong and effective negotiation skills
- Business acumen and commercially minded

**Why work for us?**
- A competitive remuneration package, including incentives
- Generous discounts for you across our brands including Country Road, POLITIX, Trenery, Witchery and MIMCO
- Ability to balance time at home and in the office to support meaningful work/life balance
- Excellent career opportunities given upcoming change/transformation projects
- A genuine, open and high performing culture
- Opportunity to become involved in our Corporate Social Responsibility program, by supporting our community partnerships

**About us?**

The Country Road Group is one of Australasia’s largest fashion retail groups comprising of iconic brands such as Country Road, POLITIX, Trenery, Witchery and MIMCO. Our Values include being Customer Obsessed, Collaborative, Inspirational, Responsible and Dedicated to Quality. We are looking for highly motivated and passionate individuals to be part of the Group’s evolution and support each brand to realise their full potential.

**Advertised**: 01 Aug 2023 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 18 Aug 2023 AUS Eastern Standard Time

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