Procurement Sourcing Specialist

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Procurement Sourcing Specialist (Full Time, Permanent) to join our team.

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state.

This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you’ll be supported to build a rewarding career.

**Our**perks** and Benefits**:
At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that’s why we offer a load of benefits.
- Flexible working
- Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise agreement
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Fertility leave
- Yearly corporate wear allowance
- Professional development and educational assistance
- Salary Range starting from $116,524 Base + Super
- And so much more

**What**you’ll** do**:

- Build and maintain relationships with the business in order to deeply understand procurement requirements and provide a responsive and business-centric service.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and provide expert advice in the development and/or review of WaterNSW scope of requirements in partnership with business stakeholders to ensure they are fit-for-purpose, meet WaterNSW’s safety, values and business standards and requirements, and will be easily understood by suppliers.
- Draft and review key market documents before distribution to stakeholders such as technical specifications and scope of requirements, procurement plans, evaluation plans, RFx returnable schedules, recommendation to award and overseeing the finalisation of contracts and recording in the contract management, finance and record keeping systems.
- Manage the source to contract process, including preparation of RFx documentation, communication with suppliers, evaluation of supplier proposals and contract negotiations, ensuring value for money outcomes and facilitating the timely award of contracts.
- Manage and support the contract negotiation process and coordinate the preparation of contracts with input from category management, the business and legal and manage the award and execution of contracts, facilitating contract handover activities to the business for ongoing contract management.
- Provide support to supplier performance management, including attending or leading scheduled performance reviews, resolving supplier performance matters and incidents, setting work allocation for panel suppliers, participation in supplier management and development forums and preparation of recommendations for contract review.

**What we are looking for**:

- Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. Procurement, Business) or experience deemed equivalent.
- Sound knowledge of procurement and sourcing processes, policies, systems and frameworks.
- Experience with Procurement systems, including source-to-contract and spend management.
- Demonstrated experience working in procurement/category management.
- Sound stakeholder relationship management, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Current NSW Drivers Licence

**How we will support you**:

- At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility - and the way we work - with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals.
- When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you’re required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week.
- We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities

**More about our team/ culture**:

- No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public.

**Who is**WaterNSW**?**

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution - for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.
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