Procurement Manager

**Summary**:
**Overview**:
As a Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for managing procurement activities to achieve commercial benefits for Corporate Markets APAC. This includes strategic alignment with stakeholders, enhancing supplier performance, and ensuring efficient procurement processes.

**Key Accountabilities and Main Responsibilities**:
Strategic Focus:

- Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve business outcomes while delivering commercial benefits.
- Enhance supplier performance to optimize value for Corporate Markets APAC.

Operational Management:

- Engage with stakeholders to understand their requirements and facilitate the Request for Proposal (RFP) process.
- Manage end-to-end RFPs, from requirements definition to contract agreement, while guiding stakeholder groups.
- Lead key contract renewals, pursuing RFPs where feasible and negotiating renewals on favorable terms when RFPs are not viable.
- Ensure alignment with global approaches and supply agreements.
- Review spending and assist the CM Head of Procurement in planning activities to meet financial objectives and savings targets.
- Take a leadership role in specific category areas and propose category plans.
- Ensure suppliers deliver optimal value, adhering to contract terms and preventing unauthorized fee increases.
- Develop contractual arrangements with preferred suppliers to ensure the delivery of high-quality service to Corporate Markets and its customers.

Governance & Risk:

- Ensure supply chain safety, sustainability, and appropriate accreditation.
- Establish mechanisms for continual risk management and performance improvement in the supply chain.

**Experience & Personal Attributes**:

- CIPS qualification or equivalent, with relevant demonstrated Procurement experience.
- Proven experience in managing sourcing exercises and delivering financial benefits.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and achieve stakeholder results.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and deliver against overall objectives.
- Demonstrated autonomy within agreed parameters.
- Excellent commercial acumen with a track record of delivering savings.
- Customer-focused approach with good analytical skills.

**What’s it like to work here?**

We’re proud to have created a culture and work environment that is supportive, values diversity, inclusion, flexibility, and blended working. We pride ourselves on being open and transparent and we genuinely value the health and wellbeing of our people.

Joining Link Group means you'll join an employer who fosters pathways for continuous learning and skill development, providing you with the tools you need to focus on career growth and personal development. We provide a range of benefits including:

- Salary sacrificing via Superannuation
- Paid parental leave scheme
- Employee discounts: health insurance
- Hybrid working model
- Volunteer leave

Link Group is a leading fund administration and share registry specialist. We are a market leading provider of technology-enabled administration solutions, continually developing our offerings to expand with our clients' needs. Since our inception, Link Group has been entrusted by clients to handle sensitive data in a secure and confidential manner. Our core businesses of fund administration and securities registration are complemented by our expertise in digital solutions and data analytics.

Our Corporate Markets division provides clients with a comprehensive corporate market offering that connects issuers to their stakeholders. Our uniquely integrated range of corporate markets capabilities includes shareholder management and analytics, stakeholder engagement, share and unit registry, and employee share plans. We also offer company secretarial support, as well as various specialist offerings such as insolvency solutions. We operate in twelve countries throughout Australasia, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, United Kingdom and Europe.

Our teams combine a wealth of industry experience with a rigorous focus on client management to deliver a premium service underpinned by market leading digital technology provided by our Technology division.

Link Group is building a dynamic, client focused, caring and inclusive culture that is built on the foundations of an entrepreneurial spirit, effective risk management, empathy and trust, and underpinned by its core values.

We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive and their wellbeing is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of the Link Group journey and together we will achieve our full potential.

We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not l