Contracts & Purchasing Lead

24 hours ago

North Sydney, Australia Ventia Pty Limited Full time

Contracts & Purchasing Lead

**Date**:7 Nov 2024**Location**:North Sydney, NSW, AU, 2060**Company**:Ventia**About the role**:

- Reporting to our General Manager Plant, Logistics & Property the Contracts & Purchasing Lead will be accountable for implementing contracting and purchasing strategies that enable excellence in Plant, Logistics & Property and optimisation of operational spend.- Key deliverables include input into category planning and execution, contract management and oversight for the processing of annual operations expenditure.

Options to base from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne or Adelaide head offices, we also offer a flexible work atmosphere splitting your time in the office and work from home.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Forecast needs and requirements and execution of delivery strategies working with Category Managers across the function.
- Pursue optimal commercial terms ensuring appropriate contractual agreements are in place.
- Ensure supplier contracts are being managed in accordance with terms that achieve outcomes and assist with resolution of contractual disagreements or uncertainties.
- Monitor and rew supplier KPIs.
- Collaboration with Category and Supply relationship teams to ensure supplier relationships are managed to drive operational, commercial and innovative benefits.
- Develop effective delivery strategies with the goal of achieving Ventia's sustainability targets.

**About you**:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in business/commercial/similar field or demonstrated experience
- Well-developed experience in contracts, purchasing processes, systems and delivery that drive operational excellence.
- Strategic and driven decision maker that is commercially astute, able to derive decisions based on robust data and analytics.
- Demonstrated experience developing optimisation to meet business needs.
- People focused, able to build strong collaborative relationships, internally and externally with stakeholders at all levels.

**About Ventia**:
Ventia is a leading infrastructure services company, operating across Australia and New Zealand. Our clients are the owners and operators of assets that are critical to our local communities. No one else does exactly what we do in the way we do it. Making infrastructure work for our communities is at the heart of who we are and it's what unites and excites us.

**Diversity**:
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Ventia is enriched by the diverse experiences, talents, and cultures that our people bring to the organisation, while celebrating and respecting the communities we operate in. We are committed to providing a safe and positive environment that provides equal opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, Women, Veterans and spouses and people with disabilities.

**How to apply**:
- Applications close Sunday 17th November 2024 close of business._

Position Reference Number: 160693**#S-DNI**
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