Principal Contract Specialist

**Job Number**:
500529

**The details**:

- Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
- $112,372 to $119,371pa + 12% super (level 7)
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Strathpine

Join City of Moreton Bay in our** growing procurement team** and help drive efficiencies that support our teams to shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

We are on the search for **THREE** Principal Contract Specialist's to come on board

This is an exciting time at Moreton Bay in the procurement space, as we are relatively early in our move to a strategic contracting model and therefore present a timely opportunity for you to bring your ideas to **help us shape the future direction** of Council procurement and contract management processes.

Reporting through to the Commercial and Contract Lead, we will look to you to partner with key stakeholders to **develop and implement** **contract management strategies, plans and processes** to secure best value, mitigate risks and optimise project outcomes for Council and the community. You'll also:

- Lead the management of corporate contracts and suppliers, maintaining relationships and evaluating works and services for compliance, performance and adherence to contractual obligations.
- Review specifications, contracts, contract management frameworks, policies, guidelines for continuous improvement in delivering best practice outcomes.
- Support the organisation to analyse, address and resolve unsatisfactory supplier performance and contractual disputes across Council.
- Undertake reporting and analysis to evaluate compliance, expenditure, savings opportunities and benefits realisation - and develop and implement initiatives to drive value and efficiencies.
- Negotiate on behalf of Council to resolve disputes with suppliers regarding standard contract terms and conditions.
- Prepare internal audit plans for contract management practices throughout Council, and subsequently coordinate and undertake those audits and register of non-conformance and improvement opportunities

**About you**

This is a great opportunity for an experienced commercial procurement professional to join and help us demonstrate the value in effective contract management to our diverse organisation here at Australia's 3rd largest Local Government.

Bringing extensive experience developing and implementing category plans, contract management and supplier performance management, will quickly help you hit the ground running from a technical standpoint.

Your demonstrated ability to engage effectively will complement your research and analytical skills to really understand stakeholder needs, building quality working relationships founded in trust to achieve sustained results.

As a natural communicator, you will be confident and adaptable to a range of professional settings, with a proven ability to influence, negotiate and elicit support as required to achieve balanced and sustainable outcomes for Council.

Whilst we are a growing team, we are still relatively small in size so are seeking people who are happy to roll up their sleeves and pitch in to get things done when needed.

Local Government experience is great but not essential.

We are focused on delivering on our corporate values of Service, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect and Sustainability - we are seeking people who resonates with these values.

**Why City of Moreton Bay?**

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what _can be_ - for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

- **See it.** To build a city of the future, first, you have to _see it_. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- **Shape it.** You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters - and it’s yours to shape and own.
- **Live it.** Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

- Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-fr