Category Manager

**Category Manager - Network Services**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About us**:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. CitiPower, Powercor Australia and United Energy are electricity distributors and supply power to more than one million Victorians. We own and manage the technology - poles, wires, meters, and distributed technologies such as storage - that deliver electricity to homes and businesses within Melbourne’s CBD, its suburbs and across central and western Victoria.

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

**About the Role**:
We are currently looking for an experienced procurement professional to join our team as a Category Manager
- Network Services in a full time and permanent capacity based at our Market Street Head Office.

This position is responsible for developing and engaging effective and strategic suppliers within the Network Services area of the business. As part of this you will design and implement category level sourcing plans and strategies, identify and develop innovative concepts and use industry knowledge to monitor and adjust strategies in-line with the business requirements. In addition, the role will be responsible for establishing strong supplier relationships and ensure operational efficiency, quality and cost effectiveness in all aspects of CitiPower Powercor’s third party relationships within the Network Services category.

Reporting to the Group Procurement Manager this role will play a key part in maximising the contribution to our sustainable competitive advantage through effective management of Procurement strategies with a commercial mindset.

**In this role you will deliver**:

- Contribute to procurement savings targets
- Conduct detailed spend and market analysis to develop and maintain category strategies covering key Network spend areas
- Close out market engagements and implement appropriate commercial mechanism
- Share detailed Network category knowledge and communicate this knowledge to appropriately advise business units and stakeholders
- Undertake lessons learned debriefs with Stakeholders and ensure any issues or clarifications on Procurement outcomes are addressed in appropriate timeframe.
- Develop and implement supplier process improvement projects where required
- Establish strong supplier relationship and ensure operational efficiency, quality and cost effectiveness

**To succeed in this role you will have**:

- Strong procurement experience and commercial acumen. Experience across the full range of procurement activities including category management, supplier relationship management, and strategic sourcing.
- Strong experience managing the activities of a cross functional Project teams
- Degree Qualified - Commerce, Business, Law, Engineering or Information Technology
- MCIPs Membership (or in the process of capturing membership qualification) is desirable
- Extensive experience of end-to-end procurement knowledge with hands-on experience within a major corporate organisation

**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?**

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

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