Procurement Consultant

**Procurement Consultant - Performance & Frameworks**
- **12-month fixed term contract**:

- **Brisbane Location**

**About the r**ole**:
The role exists to support and enable the end-to-end procurement process for the procurement team. This includes full lifecycle management for content in relation to the procurement policy, framework and procurement process and involves deep supply chain, brand understanding, market intelligence, sourcing, supplier development (including innovation and governance), leakage monitoring and demand/consumption management and advice.
- Understands how to contribute to team, business and group priorities and drives priorities with a sense of purpose.
- Collaborates across and within teams and build strong relationships with customers to match the right solution to each customer’s needs - placing the customer at the heart of decisions.
- Knows and clarifies what’s expected, taking accountability to resolve problems and set high personal standards to deliver timely results in a changing environment.
- Builds strong relationships, works effectively in diverse and flexible teams, takes ownership for learning and development and takes action to enhance own and others’ safety and wellbeing.
- Keeps things simple while driving innovation, removing blockages and anticipates and adapts to changing market and business challenges.
- Manages the quality of own data input and proactively helps identify risks and issues

**More specifically, you will**:
**Procurement Process & Framework Management**

The role is responsible for using, and making improvements to, procurement process, systems, tools, template and framework libraries including:

- Design and implement sourcing solutions, including design and execution of commercial instruments such as contracts that meet all agreed business needs
- Map and identify opportunities to improve demand management
- Understand business processes to optimise processes
- Manage legal instruments that meet stakeholders’ business needs
- Manage governance and other contract deliverables
- Management of Procurement SharePoint Sites
- Monitor leakage indicators and propose viable solutions to category owners and business owners
- Resolve disputes that have been escalated by the business unit or are of a systematic or strategic nature
- Develop strong collaborative relationships which produce additional value for Suncorp.
- Manage, maintain & raise awareness of Procurement engagement model internal & external to procurement team
- Support of Supplier Relationship Management program as required
- Support activities to manage risks and controls related to the procurement process and related policies and frameworks owned by Procurement
- Other ad-hoc procurement process work as required

**Key Stakeholder Relationships**:
Actively and appropriately engage stakeholders, including:

- Provide single point representation and relationship management for Procurement to the relevant Business Units
- Effectively collaborate and engage with key stakeholders such as business owners, suppliers and Procurement teams
- Develop strong supplier engagement and relationships with key suppliers which aim to provide competitive advantages to Suncorp

**About you**:

- Tertiary education is highly desirable, with a Procurement, Business or Commerce related degree. Desired
- Experienced procurement professional with 3+ years’ experience in procurement.
- Experience in large organisations with complex environments.
- Experience in a centralised procurement/commercial environment providing services to a broad customer base.
- Experienced in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results.
- Experience in delivering quality outputs within tight timeframes within a standardised project management framework.

**Key Capabilities**:
**Procurement**
- Experience across various procurement activities including vendor management and preferably strategic sourcing (goods and services)
- Strong negotiation 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 communications to Executive Leadership Team 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
- Change Management experience

**Legal**
- Understand legal, regulatory and contractual frameworks

**Leadership**
- Demonstrated ability to establish goals and objectives to determine the best way forward
- Proven ability to formulate and deliver inn