Procurement Leader Recruitment and Labour

**Procurement Leader - Recruitment & Labour Hire**
- **Permanent Role**:

- **Location Flexible - Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane**

**About the role**:
The role exists to deliver procurement category management across the Suncorp Group, focusing on recruitment and labour hire services.

It will require the development of category plans and strategies, subsequent sourcing/negotiation initiatives and ongoing management of the existing contract portfolio.

**More specifically, you will**:
**Strategic initiatives**

**The role is responsible for developing and implementing category plans, sourcing strategies and/or negotiation strategies that**:

- Gather appropriate market and industry intelligence about categories in scope
- Analyse and summarise existing contracts and current spend
- Align to business requirements
- Identify initiatives that derive benefits, through sourcing, demand management and/or contract management opportunities
- Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, inter-dependencies and potential benefits
- Leverage strong collaborative supplier relationships and supplier innovation, which enable additional value for Suncorp
- Define appropriate supply models for each category of spend
- Align Supplier and Suncorp processes to drive efficiencies for both parties
- Determine the roles & responsibilities between Procurement and stakeholders within the Suncorp Group; this will involve an assessment of complexity, existing intellectual property, risk, legal requirements, budget ownership and other relevant factors are approved by the relevant sponsors within Suncorp
- Establish contracts that are competitive, reduce risk and optimise supply through appropriate SLAs
- Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance

**Maintenance of Suppliers and Contracts**
- Planning for a pipeline of contract renewal activity
- Ensuring contract renewals are competitive, delivered through an appropriate supply model and well scoped
- Manage supplier performance including SLA’s governance and other contract deliverables
- Execute extensions, variations and terminations of legal instruments that meet stakeholders’ business needs
- Monitor leakage indicators and propose viable solutions to category owners and business owners
- Map and identify opportunities to improve demand management
- Resolve supplier disputes that have been escalated or are of a systematic or strategic nature

**About you**:

- Tertiary education, with a Procurement & Supply Chain focus or an Information Technology, Business or Commerce related degree. Desired
- Experienced procurement professional with minimum of 5 years’ experience in procurement. Mandatory
- Experience with recruitment and labour hire services type agreements. Desired
- Experience in large organisations with complex environments. Mandatory
- Experience in a centralised procurement/commercial environment providing services to a broad customer base. Mandatory
- Experienced in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results. Mandatory
- Experience in delivering quality outputs within tight timeframes within a standardised project management framework and structured procurement approach. Mandatory
- Experience in working with others in a (preferably commercial) strategy setting role. Mandatory

**Key Capabilities**:
**Procurement**
- Experience across various procurement activities including vendor management and strategic sourcing
- Strong negotiation and communication skills demonstrated across a range of supplier, commercial and internal stakeholder management contexts

**Analytics**
- Analytical business skills
- Displays financial / commercial acumen and seasoned business judgment
- Demonstrate experience in understanding and extracting benefits out of value chains
- Exhibit value chain analysis knowledge to assist the business meet their objectives

**General Business**
- Verbal and written communication skills - including presentation and communications to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) level as required
- Time management skills and ability to manage a number of concurrent tasks with differing timelines and deliverables
- Ability to cope with pressure, prioritise workload and meet agreed timetables

**Legal**
- Understand legal, regulatory and contractual frameworks
- Experienced in formulating legal contractual documents and schedules under legal guidance

**Logistics**
- Understand Asset Management principles including total cost of ownership
- Understand the impact of Supply Chain structures and cost drivers

**Management and Leadership**
- Demonstrated ability to establish goals and objectives to determine the best way forward
- Proven ability to formulate and deliver innovative practical business process solutions and to demonstrate the value of an innovative solution to stakeholders
- Understands organisational change issues and change management leadership ability
- Demonstrate strong leadership and