Procurement Advisors

4 days ago

Canberra, Australia Proximity Full time

**Your new role**

You’re ambitious and so are we Your experience, motivation and enthusiasm for achieving outcomes and your personal career goals will fit perfectly with our Procurement advisor roles.

At Proximity, positions within our Procurement & Contracts Group are broad in nature. You may be adept at being a key team member in end-to-end delivery of high value and complex procurement projects, or playing a key part in the client delivery procurement program, where your understanding of the Defence or Commonwealth Government procurement and contracting life-cycle is top-of-mind everyday.

Prior experience working within or with a Federal Government department in a commercial setting, with exposure to high-value procurements, delivering commercial advisory services as required across Defence, National Security, Health, Environment or other agencies.

A current Australian Security Clearance is required.

**The objectives of the position include**:

- Use your practical understanding of government procurement policies to interpret process and procedures for best project outcomes
- Support the collaborative negotiation with suppliers, anticipate problems and encourage strong performance outcomes for our clients
- Work collaboratively, build and sustain relationships with team members and stakeholders to achieve a common outcome
- Support or lead streams of work including RFQ development, approach to market, evaluation processes, and contract management, compliance assessment, gap analysis, risk assessment, pricing and value for money assessment for on time delivery.

In the Department of Defence, these roles are Level 3 and high Level 2 roles.

**How Proximity supports you**

Our values are imbedded in everything we do. Our values reflect who we are and what we stand for.

**Genuine** - We are the people you want to work with.

**Bold** - We think differently, we’re innovative and wide open to new ideas.

**Helpful** - We provide helpful outcomes and generously share our experience and knowledge.
- We are committed to ensuring you have an enriching and rewarding career and provide a Career and Wellbeing Manager to ensure that you get the most out of a career with Proximity.
- We reimburse you for catch-up coffees with your Proximity colleagues and provide an annual Wellbeing allowance to go towards what wellbeing means to you.
- We recognise your achievements and celebrate your success through our rewards and recognition program.
- We are committed to diversity, our pro bono practice, and our community partners, Menslink, Fearless Women, Inclusive Australia, The Farm in Galong, The Women’s Legal Centre and Tjillari Justice Aboriginal Corporation

**Does this sound like the right fit for you?**

If you like the idea of joining a team of hard-working professionals from varying backgrounds with the aim to develop creative solutions to challenging problems, you will fit right in at Proximity But there is a catch - it is not all about work, we really enjoy working together, learning from each other, and have fun doing what we do to help clients be successful.

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