Category Specialist

**Category Specialist - Major Projects**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About us**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include large numbers of households as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

It's an extremely rewarding experience, being able to harness smart and innovative technologies to help integrate renewables into the network and drive progress on climate change. Because every day, you're helping solve some of the biggest energy challenges of our generation.

Also, the electricity industry is going through significant transformation and our businesses are at the centre of it. Supporting a clean energy future, our electricity networks provide a gateway to renewables and choices such as solar, batteries and electric vehicles.

**About the role**:
The Category Specialist - Major Projects is responsible for developing effective and strategic suppliers in collaboration with the assigned Service Category Manager. Establish strong supplier relationships and ensure operational efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness in all aspects of CitiPower Powercor third party relationships for the provision of Major Project Services. Working collaboratively with the assigned Category Manager on the design and implementation of category level sourcing plans and strategies. Identify innovative concepts and use industry knowledge to monitor and adjust strategies as required.

Pro-actively manage supply risk and performance for the Major Project procurement categories.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Develop, manage, and oversee value RFx’s, along with completing detailed pre & post RFx analysis.
- Conduct market analysis / benchmarking.
- Develop and implement supply management / supplier / process improvement projects.
- Assist the Category Manager in providing monthly & quarterly reports to lead GM’s and Head of Procurement for the Major Project Category.
- Assess supplier compliance with contract terms.
- Liaise with operational resources within BUs and key stakeholders to ensure that agreed process efficiencies are implemented operationally.
- Positive working relationships with stakeholders to ensure desired business and procurement outcomes are reached.

**To succeed in the role, you’ll have**:

- Degree qualified in Commerce, Business, Finance, or relevant discipline.
- 1- 5 years of end-to-end procurement knowledge with hands-on experience within a Utility Services, global or major corporate organisation for Network or Construction Product and/or Services.
- Demonstrated work experience across the full range of procurement activities including category management, vendor management and/or strategic sourcing.
- Relationship/stakeholder management skills - demonstrated commercial stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical, reporting, business writing and problem-solving skills.

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive, and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**
- If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us._

OUR VALUES: Live safely, Be Customer and Community Minded, Succeed Together, Be The Best You Can Be, Improve Our Business

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