Contracts and Procurement Advisor

1 week ago

Brisbane, Australia Australian Retirement Trust Full time

**Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Performance & Governance team as a Contracts and Procurement Advisor.If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne, we’d love you to apply.**

**Why join us?**
- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

**About the role**

We’re all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a **Contracts and Procurement Advisor**, you’ll be responsible for uplifting material service provider contracts to ensure they are compliant with our regulatory obligations. You will be required to manage, control and implement the operational aspects of the contractual relationship with key vendors, including the assessment of contractual documentation for effective operations and alignment to regulatory requirements.

A key accountability of this role is ensuring Strategic Procurement material service contracts are uplifted within the required timeframes outlined by the CPS230 regulation. CPS230 is a standard by APRA to improve financial and operational resilience, ensuring better outcomes for members and improving the resilience of the financial system. It includes managing operational risks, keeping critical operations running during disruptions, and handling risks from service providers.

Day to day, you'll:

- Review and interpret contract requirements specific to each service provider.
- Develop negotiation plans to leverage opportunities and drive favourable outcomes.
- Understand and articulate contract terms to all relevant parties.
- Lead contract negotiations, administration, and execution in accordance with all company policies.
- Advise and provide consultation for all stakeholders.
- Lead conduit between the project community and business areas impacted by material service providers.
- Provide options and recommendations for navigating challenging negotiations.
- Manage handover of negotiated contract and provide education to accountable contract owner in order for contract to be fully managed.
- Assist in maintaining positive long-term relationships with key internal and external stakeholders through regular contact, communication and delivery of quality services.
- Adhere to the Australian Retirement Trust compliance and risk management framework specifically identifying, reporting and mitigating operational compliance and business risks.

This role is available as a **12-month max-term/ secondment opportunity.**

**About you**

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- Ideally tertiary qualified in a business-related discipline and/or Level 4 accreditation with the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Australia (CIPSA).
- Demonstrated experience in negotiating complex, high risk contracts.
- A strong client focus and the ability to liaise with multiple stakeholder groups.
- Highly developed multi-facetted communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate, and negotiate supplier contracts in writing and verbal.
- Demonstrated ability to work to deadlines, effectively managing multiple priorities, and delivering in a timely manner.
- Experience in analysing unstructured information & developing management reports.

**About us**

Our 2.3 million members trust us to take care of almost $300 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different. It’s why we're part of the Circle Back Initiative.

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