Procurement Advisor

**Procurement Advisor, Ongoing, Sydney**

The Department of Customer Service (DCS) is looking for an enthusiastic and team-orientated individual within the Corporate Services Procurement Team. The successful applicant will support DCS Corporate Procurement to provide procurement and analytical expertise to inform procurement and category management, decision-making and strategy.

This position involves working in a fast-paced environment with the opportunity to grow and develop in a supportive and collaborative team. The right applicant will be a team player willing to hit the ground running, who can work autonomously and as part of a team.

The Corporate Services Procurement Team are currently undergoing transformation with several exciting opportunities including one current vacancy for an Advisor Procurement Excellence to join our team

**Benefits**
- Fantastic ongoing clerk grade 7/8 Opportunity
- Salary range: $101,947 - $112,849 + super, commensurate with experience
- Genuinely flexible working arrangements
- State of the art offices
- Wellbeing programs and resources available
- Excellent career development and learning development opportunities
- Discounted Gym Memberships and Employee Assistance Programs

**About Us**

This is an exciting opportunity to work in our Corporate Procurement Team which services the DCS cluster. The team sits within the Corporate Services Division of DCS, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer for DCS. Corporate Procurement has three functions within the team: Business Partnering, Sourcing, and Centre of Excellence. This role sits within the Centre of Excellence team and reports to a Senior Manager Procurement Excellence, who reports directly to the Chief Procurement Officer.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Monitor and maintain cluster-wide technology platforms including gathering data and maintaining complex contract databases to support end-to-end procurement needs
- Undertake research, cost modelling and analysis of supply markets to develop insights and proposals to improve business value and inform better decision making
- Develop and provide reports to support effective management of supplier performance and to track and report on benefits delivered
- Develop and maintain customer-centric procurement intranet site, systems, processes, templates, and self-help materials to ensure alignment of Corporate Procurement Policy & Process Framework with NSW Government requirements and support effective, efficient and compliant procurement within the cluster
- Proactively identify procurement risks and opportunities to continually improve efficiency and effectiveness and inform procurement strategies
- Support the documentation of procurement processes, decisions and contractual arrangements to conduct audit trails and reporting

**About you**:
You are genuinely passionate about procurement with demonstrable experience delivering excellence in governance, guidelines and processes which inform sustainable procurement and enhanced user experience. You are committed to your team and are flexible and reliable when your help is needed.

Some of your key attributes include:

- An analytical thinker who can think outside the box to solve complex problems
- A team player with strong work ethic, who values feedback and supporting the team to succeed
- A flexible worker who can adjust their capabilities to suit a variety of stakeholders
- A go to person for reading and interpreting the NSW Government Procurement Policy FrameworkThrives around people, working towards collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- A strong background in public policy, preferably in the regulatory space

If you want to be part of this forward thinking, innovative team that thrive in challenging the status quo, we would love to hear from you

**What we need from you**:
A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities.

Salary Grade 7/8, with the base salary for this role starting at $101,947 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date: Monday 10th October 10am**

**Working at Department of Customer Service**

The Department of Customer Service (DCS) is a great place to work Our values of accountability, trust, service, and integrity drive our initiatives and culture. We support innovative programs in areas as broad as digital government, consumer protection and major public works. We are an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity and flexible work practices and believe our people are our greatest asset.

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We understand that there are different ways of getting the job done and offer flexible working arrangements where and when possible.