Procurement Manager

**About the Role**
We’re looking for a Procurement Manager - Technology to join our awesome team at BOQ Group. This position oversees the entire procurement lifecycle, including planning, sourcing, contract negotiation, and management, as well as stakeholder and supplier management. This role oversees a portfolio of technology suppliers and contracts within Financial Services, encompassing Managed Services, Cyber Infrastructure, Application Management, Networks and Software.

In this role, you will work with Technology Group Executive, Technology General Managers, and key support functions like Legal and Finance, as well as external suppliers and strategic vendors.

The main goal is to deliver technology procurement solutions that maximise value, manage risk, improve efficiencies, and ensure quality for the BOQ Group. Your key responsibilities will include developing technology strategic sourcing solutions, analysing category and supplier data, performing market analysis, identifying savings opportunities, obtaining stakeholder approval for sourcing strategies, developing category plans, leading market engagement activities, negotiating contracts, ensuring supplier performance, and promoting innovative outcomes. Additionally, the role focuses on risk management, delivering cost savings, and fostering strong business stakeholder relationships.
**About you**
We’re looking for someone who can rock the technology procurement world If you’ve got experience handling the technology procurement lifecycle, from ‘Go to Market’ activities to negotiating high-stakes contracts, you’re already on our radar. You’ve spent over five years in technology strategic sourcing, ideally in a centralised, multi-category setup, and you’re no stranger to procurement tech, spend analysis, and supplier risk management.

You’ll need to be a pro at managing stakeholders, communicating effectively, and building relationships up to the executive level. Your commercial and data-driven procurement skills should be top-notch, and you should be able to tailor your advice to different management levels with ease. We’re looking for someone who can collaborate like a champ, solve problems on the fly, and develop winning strategies. Strong communication and presentation skills are a must, and you should bring accountability, energy, enthusiasm, and a “can-do” attitude to the table. If you can work autonomously and meet strict deadlines, we want to hear from you
**About Us**
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose - to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.

Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal - to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.

BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.
**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

**How to Apply**

BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verificati