Procurement Leader

**Procurement Leaders - Insurance**
- **1 x permanent role & 1 x contract role**:

- **Flexible Locations**

**About the role**:
A permanent and a 5-month contract role are available to join a leading, well established procurement team.

As an integrated member of the Insurance Claims function this role provides a strong opportunity to drive commercial outcomes, support innovation and develop best in class business and customer outcomes through strategic sourcing.

The role provides a high level of information, support and autonomy to any motivated individual looking for their next opportunity with flexibility to work in office or at home.

**More specifically, you will**:
**Strategic initiatives**

The role supports a diverse range of supply chain opportunities across General Insurance (Motor/Property) and, Personal Insurance (Health Industry) including areas such as Fraud prevention, Investigation and Forensic services, Mercantile Agents, Vocational Rehab, Medico-Legal, Hospitals, Allied Health, SaaS and much more.

**The role is responsible for**:

- Gather appropriate market and industry intelligence
- Analyse and summarise existing contracts and current spend
- Align to Function strategies and/or business requirements
- Derive financial or operational benefits, through cost savings, operational efficiency and/or demand management.
- Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, inter-dependencies and potential benefits
- Nurture strong, collaborative supplier relationships and supplier innovation, which enable additional value for Suncorp
- Align Supplier and Suncorp processes to drive efficiencies for both parties
- Understand and help define the roles & responsibilities between Procurement and stakeholders within relevant Function; this will involve an assessment of complexity, existing intellectual property, risk, legal requirements, budget ownership and other relevant factors
- Establish contracts that are competitive, reduce risk and optimise supply through appropriate SLAs
- Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance

**Maintenance of Suppliers and Contracts**

The role is responsible for managing a category of existing suppliers and contracts, with the aim of:

- Planning for a pipeline of contract renewal activity
- Ensuring contract renewals are competitive, delivered through an appropriate supply model, and well defined
- Execute extensions, variations and terminations of contracts that meet stakeholders’ business needs
- Monitor spend leakage indicators and propose viable solutions to category owners and business owners
- Map and identify opportunities to improve demand management
- Resolve supplier disputes that have been escalated or are of a systematic or strategic nature
- Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance.

**About you**:

- Tertiary education (Supply Chain, Business, or Information Technology). Desired
- Five 5 years’ experience in or supporting procurement or supply chain (Consulting or Large Organisation - highly desirable). Required
- Industry experience in General Insurance (Motor/Home), Health supply chain, IT or Information Services, Motor Salvage, Fraud & Investigations, Debt Recovery. Desired

**Key Capabilities**:
**Procurement (Advanced)**
- Partnering with senior business stakeholders to design and deliver commercial strategy
- Category Management and end to end Strategic Sourcing experience
- Strong negotiation skills demonstrated across a range of supplier, commercial and internal stakeholder management contexts
- Experienced in formulating legal contractual documents and schedules under guidance

**Commercial and Analytics (Intermediate)**
- Displays financial / commercial acumen and seasoned business judgment
- Demonstrate experience in understanding and extracting benefits out of value chains
- Exhibit value chain analysis knowledge to assist the business meet their objectives

**General Business (Advanced)**
- Verbal and written communication skills - including presentation and communications to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) level as required
- Project Management skills and ability to manage several concurrent tasks with differing timelines and deliverables
- Ability to manage your Category/Portfolio - includes prioritising workload as well as influencing and delivering to agreed targets & timetables
- Risk, compliance and governance

**What we can offer you**
- Discounts and offers on a range of retail favourite stores as well as banking and insurance products.
- A range of flexible working and leave options, including 16 weeks paid parental leave and unlimited paid emergency response leave.
- Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs.
- Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave.
- Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council.