Category Manager

2 weeks ago


Perth, Australia CBH Group Full time

The CBH Group is Australia’s largest co-operative and a leader in the Australian grain industry, with operations which extend along the value chain and include grain storage, handling, transport, marketing and processing. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing a safe and rewarding working environment for our people, with a strong culture of developing and enhancing our employees’ capabilities. We invite you to become part of a dynamic, diverse organisation with a bright future.

**24 month fixed term contract**

An amazing opportunity to join a well-established, highly professional, and high performing Strategic Sourcing Team at CBH This role provides strategic category management and source-to-contract services aligned with CBH objectives, across a range of high profile categories within the organisation.

**Key responsibilities**:
- Develop good operational and commercial understanding of assigned categories and contracts.- Develop and implement sound category and sourcing strategies that will deliver safety, cost, timelines and quality optimisation, ensuring stakeholder alignment at all levels.- Implement effective portfolio management and stakeholder engagement for pro-active management of procurement initiatives.-
- Provide leadership in contracting processes, developing contract competencies, and ensuring compliance with procurement policies and procedures.- Run effective contract management (e.g. contract performance management, contract terms risk management).- Run effective customer and supplier relationship management to drive value creation and realisation.- Drive a strong culture of safety and productivity.

**Skills and experience**:
- Minimum of 5 years in an end-to-end strategic procurement role within medium to large organisations.- Proven experience in understanding and managing complex and diverse categories, contracts, business requirements.- Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing to all levels of the organisation.- Strong analytical skills, including ability to advise on complex contract terms, to develop clear business cases (including financials) for category and contracts strategies implementation, and measure / report on contract performance- Strong commercial acumen and ability to think outside the box.- Strong negotiator with experience as a negotiation lead for complex business requirements (e.g. complex scopes of work, diverse range of stakeholders, multi-faceted commercial arrangements with evolving requirements)- Experienced in effective project management and customer and supplier relationship management- Degree or relevant experience in Supply Chain, Law, Procurement, Business.- Experience in Rail, IT, Maintenance, Labour categories is desirable.

**Benefits of working for CBH**:
CBH offers a range of employee focused benefits aimed at ensuring a healthy work life balance, including:
- Ongoing training and professional development- 13-weeks paid parental leave- Employee assistance program- Corporate Employee discounts


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