Procurement Esg Officer

WesCEF Division | Kwinana, WA, Murdoch, WA

Closing date: 15/12/2024

Job Ref: WesCEF637602
- **Do you want to join a collaborative and supportive team, where you will learn and grow?**:

- **Phenomenal and rewarding opportunity where you can bring your ideas to our team and make a direct impact to our users experience.**:

- **Permanent Full-time opportunity, based across Murdoch & Kwinana with flexible working options.**

**About WesCEF**

Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers (WesCEF) is a division of Wesfarmers and manages a portfolio of nine businesses which operate across domestic, national, and international markets in the chemicals, energy, fertilisers and critical minerals sectors.

WesCEF's vision is to grow a portfolio of leading, sustainable businesses. WesCEF has a high-quality portfolio of assets and seeks to grow these through incremental investment and innovation to meet the needs of its customers. WesCEF also focuses on investment in adjacent industries where it can add value through utilising its infrastructure, manufacturing and processing expertise and the project management capabilities of its people. WesCEF's 2050 net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions target is a strategic focus for the business.

Join us. Together we can harness potential to create a prosperous future.

**The Opportunity**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a **Procurement Officer** within the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) stream to join our team. In this role, you will provide expertise in support of WesCEF’s procurement governance and modern slavery frameworkes including source to contract and procure to pay processes, environment, social, and governance obligations including ethical sourcing, modern slavery and indigenous procurement.

Reporting to the Procurement Governance, Ethical Sourcing & Modern Slavery Manager, you will play a pivotal part in ensuring that sound commercial and business outcomes are delivered whilst managing risk in accordance with WesCEF’s values, compliance, procedural and statutory requirements.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

- Actively support in the development, improvement, education and enforcement of procurement governance requirements ensuring always that WesCEF’s values, compliance, procedural and statutory requirement are met.
- Support compliance activities to ensure that procurement governance framework and obligations comply at all times with WesCEF’s values, internal/external standards/licenses/regulations/laws, ethical and operational requirements.
- Promote and where necessary educate customers on WesCEF’s corporate governance framework and obligations.
- Oversee the sourcing process for select mid-range risk and spend contracts / sourcing events
- Lead sourcing processes and contractor management activities. Including RFXs, negotiations, risk apportionment / contract drafting / advice and related post award contractor management activities.
- Support Procurement team strategies with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement.

**With stakeholders located at both our Murdoch and Kwinana (operational) locations you will need to be able to travel between both locations as required.**

**Please note that our Murdoch office will be relocating to Perth CBD in late 2025.**

**About You**

The successful incumbent will possess:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in a commercial discipline or equivalent
- Demonstrable experience in a procurement role, ideally with exposure to contractual, governance and analysis skills
- Knowledge and expertise of procurement processes and governance frameworks
- Experience in data analysis including analytical and problem solving skills
- Flexibility and responsiveness to meet stakeholders’ expectations and demands

**We value our employees by offering**:

- Competitive remuneration with allocation of Wesfarmers
- Employer parental leave payment up to 18 weeks.
- Ongoing professional development and career opportunities across our diverse businesses and the Wesfarmers Group.
- Salary sacrifice opportunities, including novated lease vehicle packaging.
- Access to employee benefits across Wesfarmers including staff discounts at Bunnings, Kleenheat, Kmart, Target and Officeworks and Wesfarmers Arts sponsored events.

**Why WesCEF**

We are committed to building an engaged and talented workforce that is representative of the people who live in the communities where we operate. Fostering an environment where diversity of thinking, skills and experiences are embraced, delivering innovation and better business results. We welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds and particularly, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

We are proud of how we develop and support our team, including offering flexible working hours. Therefore, when you apply, please let us know if you are seeking flexibility.

WesCEF operates across multiple locations, with our two major hubs being in K