IT Procurement Manager

**Company Description** Empower Australia’s Payments Future with Cuscal**

At Cuscal, your skills drive change and make a real impact. Whether you’re supporting our clients’ customers in our Fraud Operations Contact Centre or delivering innovative solutions in Product Delivery, your contribution helps shape the payments industry’s future.

Join a team that values collaboration, innovation and excellence. With a focus on professional growth and flexibility, Cuscal is where you can thrive.

**Forward with Cuscal.**
**Job Description** As part of an exciting uplift to Procurement and Vendor Management, we are looking for an IT Procurement Manager to join the team**

The IT Procurement Manager is responsible for the planning and delivery of strategic procurement activities, including vendor engagements, stakeholder management, and market engagement. This role will be accountable for procurement activities with the focus on supporting our IT spend and becoming a trusted business partner for our IT senior leaders.

You’ll also make an impact by:

- Helping embed and uplift a centralised procurement function to support a growing business.
- Proactively and constructively challenging the business status-quo.
- Defining the ‘go to market' strategy (RFP, RFX, RFQ direct negotiation etc.) and sourcing objectives to secure quality of supply and achieve consistent value for money solutions.
- Issuing and managing RFx's including negotiating, evaluating and executing contract agreements.
- Leading procurement and contracting dimensions of projects and/or management requirements, performing impact analyses and taking appropriate actions as directed.
- Conducting market assessments that identifies supplier market depth in region and globally, current, and future market conditions, assess current & emerging market capabilities and identify the commercial requirements of suppliers.
- Ability to analyse complex IT vendor commercial models and provide insights.
- Becoming a trusted business partner by building effective working relationships with key internal/external stakeholders.
- Building and maintaining strong and sustainable relationships with vendors (service providers).
- Engaging and advising key stakeholders on policies, procedures, systems, and standards to enable them to deliver effective, outcomes-focused sourcing activities across the organisation.
- Having a continuous improvement mindset to improve experiences with procurement and the procurement and vendor management team’s operating efficiencies.

**Qualifications** What you’ll bring**

You’re a strategic thinker with the ability to see the bigger picture, with a passion for delivering exceptional service and a real knack for negotiation. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are driven to contribute to a dynamic team.

To succeed in this role, you’ll have:

- 8+ years demonstrated IT procurement experience, preferably in the Banking industry.
- A track record of success in procurement; from cost benefits/service improvements attained, developing and improving policy and processes, driving change, and gaining stakeholder buy-in.
- Strong ability to negotiate, establish and administer contracts.
- Capability to analyse problems and strategies for better solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex information in simple terms.
- Proven track record of multitasking, prioritising, and managing time effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Lean mindset, constantly acting to make tasks easier and faster.

**Additional Information** Why Cuscal?**

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.

Here, you’ll deliver or support **_interesting, ground-breaking work_** that has **_real impact _**:

- on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves.

You’ll innovate alongside **_skilled, smart, connected teams_**.

And you’ll build an**_ impressive, fulfilling career_** that continues to grow.

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including:

- ** Recognition and growth**: Celebrate achievements through IGNITE and grow with tailored development opportunities.
- ** Wellbeing focus**: Access initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial health, plus discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’
- ** Diversity and inclusion**: Join a workplace that values different perspectives and flexible work arrangements.

**Join us and reimagine the future**

Ready to make an impact? Click APPLY to join today.

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.
- Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited re