Category Sourcing Specialist

About the role

**Role Location**: Melbourne or Sydney

**Role Type**: Permanent full time

**Number of Roles**: Multiple

**Categories**: Technology & Professional Services

What will your day look like
Category sourcing and contract leads will work on commercial engagements to jointly define requirements, integrate business strategy, negotiate solutions and contribute to the delivery of sustainable performance outcomes for our business across the contracting lifecycle
Act as primary commercial interface for products and services being procured across enterprise from our supply base, stay abreast of market trends and become a trusted advisor for your area of expertise
Leverage advanced data analysis techniques to identify value improvement opportunities, formulate hypotheses and use procurement tools to drive execution of value pipeline across multi-year horizon
Work closely with business stakeholders to cultivate opportunities to advance ANZ’s competitive advantage in driving value through financial impact, ESG outcomes, digitalisation, sustainable operational performance, supplier collaboration as well as optimised risk management
Provide guidance to stakeholders who interact with our buying channels to improve decision making, spend/risk control and speed to value in line with our policies
Category sourcing and contract leads are also responsible for continuously developing our capability and improving our processes. You will play a key role in enabling our procurement transformation by adopting and improving new systems and processes.
What will you bring?
Outstanding commercial acumen, ability to communicate complex ideas effectively and work across teams and coach others to achieve outcomes
Strong technical aptitude, with some understanding of digital solutions in a financial services context
Demonstrated ability to manage commercial planning for category of spend, cultivate stakeholder relationships and provide meaningful hypothesis-driven insights to teams
Solid understanding of category management principles such as multi-country sourcing, supplier collaboration, deal economics, risk management, design to cost, value creation across supplier lifecycle and project delivery.
Understanding of supply market dynamics, third party risk and regulatory requirements, external leading practice, market trends relevant to spend areas
For Technical Sourcing roles Hardware, software, cloud, SaaS experience (more than 5 years)
So, why join us?

We’re reinventing the way we do banking, and our community of collaborative, innovative thinkers who create human-centred solutions are helping us get there. We’re responding faster to changing customer requirements, focusing on the things that matter.

We’ll also offer you the opportunity to develop your career, working in a diverse and inclusive workplace where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated and create a great place to grow, thrive and belong.

A happy workplace is a thriving one, and some of the perks you’ll get from being a Category Sourcing and Contracts Specialist at ANZ are:
Lifestyle leave - top up your annual leave with up to four weeks of additional purchased leave or take a longer period of unpaid time off
Great discounts on our financial products, and an annual Superannuation top up payment of $500 for all female employees to address the Superannuation gender gap
Competitive parental leave policies for both mums and dads, with a lump sum childcare contribution when you return to work

Interested in joining us?

Job Posting End Date

7-September, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)