Junior Category Manager

**Primary Details**
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

**Junior Category Manager**

**The opportunity**
- Join a dynamic, high-performing team
- Sydney, New South Wales
- 12 Month - Fixed-Term Contract

**Your new role**

Join our dynamic Indirect Procurement team at our Sydney CBD office We are seeking a proactive and commercially knowledgeable Junior Category Manager to drive end-to-end procurement excellence, utilising your expertise to analyse spend data, craft and manage contracts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams for cost-saving opportunities and business optimisation.

As a Junior Category Manager, you will report to the Senior Category Manager of the Property Facilities and Office Services categories and will play a key role in overseeing these spend categories and suppliers across Australia and New Zealand. Your responsibilities will include relationship management, performance reporting, and supporting category initiatives with best-in-class sourcing and procurement techniques. Take the lead in procurement projects, working closely with Business Units and the Senior Category Manager, and champion contract management and compliance.

Elevate your career with us and be at the forefront of strategic procurement
- Assist with end-to-end procurement processes to deliver value across the Property, Facilities and Office Services categories including delivering commercial benefits/savings against specific targets.
- Conduct data/spend analysis in support of procurement projects to identify spend patterns and assist with initiative identification and development.
- Develop reporting insights from spend and supplier data to support management of suppliers.
- Assist the Senior Category Manager in the development of Category Management Plans and Strategies.
- Support with strategic sourcing initiatives and lead sourcing initiatives using structured and consistent approaches by close collaboration with the Senior Category Manager and respective Business Units.
- Perform contract management activities for the Property, Facilities and Office Services category. Responsibilities include ensuring contract management, contract compliance and ensuring all contracts are stored in QBE's centralised contracts repository.
- Refer to accompanying Role Profile for further details.

**About you**

As a high performing and naturally curious category management professional, you will have the following attributes and experience:

- Knowledge of some or all standard procurement practices such as sourcing, negotiation, contract management, cost control and business case development presentation.
- Enthusiasm and an ability to learn and adapt quickly to a variety of projects and specific tasks.
- Financial modelling and data analysis skills.
- Effective communication and negotiation skills.
- Project management/change management skills.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g. procurement, commerce, business).

**About QBE**

We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE - let's make it happen

**Benefits**:
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 12 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

**Rewards & Recognition**

We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Healt