Procurement Coordinator

**Introduction**:
BallyCara is an established charitable organisation that offers a wellness-focused lifestyle for our clients to facilitate independent living, health, and happiness.

At BallyCara, you will belong to a welcoming and inclusive community where your individual strengths and interests are embraced and are the key driver to everything that we create together. We will empower you with flexibility, autonomy and coaching to allow you to make a meaningful difference, whilst supporting you in your career and personal journey.

We inspire healthy and happy living through our SONA® (Happiness) ethos and enhance our employee's wellness through the following employee benefits:

- Emotional Wellness: Enhance your happiness. Accrue a wellness day off each year to take on your birthday, for your family, or just for you because you are worth it.
- Physical Wellness: Improve your health and wellbeing with a fitness allowance for yoga, pilates, swimming, or gym plus access to an online fitness portal LIFT Fitness
- Professional Wellness: Enhance your career with two days of paid study leave combined with yearly study assistance
- Financial Wellness: access not-for-profit salary packaging up to $18,550, receive 17.5% annual leave loading, and up to $1,892 per annum in financial discounts from our Lifeworks EAP and wellbeing portal

**Description**:
An exciting career opportunity exists for an experienced, self-motivated and dedicated Procurement Coordinator to join our Corporate Services Stream, located in our head office in Scarborough.

Due to business growth, this newly created full-time position, reporting to the Corporate Services Director, is an opportunity to join an outstanding organisation that truly cares about its staff.

**Your responsibilities will include**:
Have a visible presence in the business and act as a Procurement Business Partner.
Develop a supplier selection process.
Create preferred supplier arrangements.
Negotiate pricing, terms and contracts ensuring optimum price, quality, service, and delivery.
Review opportunities to consolidate supplier base, renegotiate terms, and other quality or commercial benefits.
Develop a supplier selection process.
Assist with strategic sourcing activities, negotiations, tender evaluations, and key initiatives through to contracting and implementation.
Develop and implement effective procurement policies, procedures, and processes.
Measure, track, analyse and report benefits delivered by procurement activities.
Support budget and forecasting processes with appropriate spend analysis.
Effectively partner with internal customers to fully understand their short-term and long-term business objectives and procurement needs.
Provide customer focused, quality service best practice procurement advice.

**What we offer**:
An opportunity to work with the best in the business, described by staff as an “amazing” place to work.
We truly care about our staff and our culture is underpinned by our core values and SONA ethos.
Opportunities for progression.
Focus on learning and development for our staff.
Generous salary packaging benefits.
Wellness inspired employee benefits.

**Skills and Experiences**:
**To be successful you will have**:
Minimum 5 years’ experience in procurement operations in a medium sized, complex environment (large number of vendors).
Demonstrated negotiation skills.
Proven experience in providing actionable insights through research and analysis.
Extensive knowledge of procurement best practises, relevant legislation, contracts, tender processes and supplier contractual requirements.
A good understanding of internal control concepts & functions within procurement.
Experience in the Aged Care, Health industry or Not-For-Profit sector would be an advantage.

How to apply