Head of Supply Chain

**Head of Supply Chain**:

- Location: Adelaide, SA, AU, 5000 Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000 Henderson, WA, AU, 6166 Abbotsford, VIC, AU, 3067
- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
- Play a key role in business transformational change for Australasia
- Provide world class performance across our supply chain service
- Develop wider engagement and alignment of whole business strategy

**About you**

You will be a competent and strategic thinking Procurement and Supply Chain leader, with relevant operational excellence and business transformation experience. With your breadth of industry knowledge to showcase, you will be able to lead, develop and execute an efficient and effective supply chain service for Australasia whilst connecting with our global counterparts for alignment. You will have significant experience driving positive change management, developing a strong function and driving proven successful outcomes.

You will be an engaging people leader with an open mindset ready to embrace, drive and manage change within our function - leading a team of approximately 50 professionals across the region. You will promote a strong organisational culture driven by clear and cohesive direction.

With this role having a reporting line to our Chief Financial Officer Australasia and regular communication with our global team you will need to be familiar with a global working environment and the possibility of some out of hours appointments to meet global time zones.

**About the role**

With overall responsibility for the Babcock Australasia procurement and supply chain function, you will provide executive leadership around continuous improvement initiatives, strategic change management, business performance and culture, along with understanding the importance of systems, process management and governance for current state and future business winning.

You will be accountable for determining the strategy, implementing delivery plans and supplier reviews, and ensuring effective change management is effectively embedded for appropriate organisational structures and resourcing for all employees to develop and be deployed effectively to maximise performance and motivation.

A key part of this role will be to lead, nurture and support the Department of Defence Australian Industry Capability Program and Sovereign Industrial Capability Priorities requirements for the Australasian business.

You will be pivotal in informing the approach for wider engagement, aligning our strategy and embedding emerging procurement and supply chain themes and knowledge, setting the team up for success and best practice operations.

With our span of business operations, this role can be based in either Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney or Perth.
- To be successful in this role, you will have: _
- Australian Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain Defence Security Clearance as per AGSVA requirements
- Proven significant leadership experience within Supply Chain Operations and Procurement
- Exposure within a global complex organisation across a diverse group of stakeholders
- Significant business transformation and change management experience with proven results
- Successful communicator at all levels of an organisation across local and international business units
- Degree level qualification within Business, Commerce or Finance
- Defence industry experience preferred

**Your future at Babcock - what we offer you**
- We provide an agile work environment where you’re able to work onsite and remotely, and to set you up for this we provide a laptop and working from home kit if required, in addition we offer a compressed week which can provide you even more flexibility;
- Our work life integration policy brings together leave entitlements which include annual leave, wellbeing leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave plus more;
- We will provide you with a supportive and engaging environment where you can grow your career, supported by our capability framework plus ongoing access to self-led learning modules through LinkedIn Learning and access to study leave;
- You’ll have access to beRewarded which will provide you with endless discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel and much more, plus novated leasing options and corporate shares plan;
- Your wellbeing is supported through our online wellbeing program Munch, Mind, Move, Money, access to our employee assistance program plus you can access two days annually from your personal leave as wellbeing days;
- You’ll be able to participate in our weRecognise program which is an opportunity to recognise the outstanding work our people do each and every day in living our principles which are Be kind, Collaborate, Be Curious, Think Outcomes, Be Courageous and Own & Deliver.

**Who we are**
Babcock International Group, the aerospace and defence company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly skilled engineering services for over a century.

Across Australia and New Zealand, Babcock has gro