Principal Procurement Specialist

**Job Number**:
500256

**The details**:

- Multiple Permanent Full Time roles
- From $112,372pa up to $119,370pa + 12% super + leave loading
Qld Local Government Industry Award (Stream A) - Level 7 of EBA5
- 9-day, 72.5-hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Strathpine

Are you seeking your next challenge, a step up in your career, or the right flexibility to suit your lifestyle?
At the City of Moreton Bay, we’re offering an exciting opportunity for experienced Procurement individuals to join our dynamic team as Principal Procurement Specialists.

Here’s what sets the role apart:

- Flexible Work Arrangements: Enjoy a 9-day fortnight and the option to work from home some days, giving you the balance to thrive both professionally and personally.
- Local Impact: Work closer to home, reduce your commute, and contribute directly to the development and growth of our community.
- Be at the Procurement Forefront: Lead strategic, meaningful projects focused on building, construction and maintenance that will shape our region’s future.
- Autonomy and Leadership: Take charge of procurement and tender activities from end to end with mínimal supervision, ensuring successful outcomes through your expertise.
- Collaborative Culture: We’re looking for team players with great attitudes, who thrive on collaboration and achieving shared goals.

If you have a strong Procurement background, particularly in building, construction and maintenance (or similar), possess excellent communication skills at multiple levels, and are ready to step into a role that offers meaningful work, career growth and flexibility, we’d love to hear from you.

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Principal Procurement Specialist and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for the implementation of best practice procurement across a range of procurement specialisations including Sourcing, Category Management, Contract Management and Supplier Relationship Management. This role provides specialist procurement advice for strategically important contracts/procurement matters and drives the delivery of value for money through the development and execution of best practice procurement strategies.

Additionally, you will:

- lead strategic negotiations with internal and external stakeholders including suppliers
- write formal reports, business cases and other complex correspondence
- contribute to the active identification, development and implementation of strategic procurement opportunities
- build and maintain high level relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and work in a collaborative team environment to ensure efficient and accurate procurement outcomes are achieved.
- provide leadership, guidance and training to other procurement members

**About you**

We are looking for someone that has extensive procurement experience in end-to-end strategic sourcing activities and a strong commercial background, by directly performing the associated procurement planning, market engagement, evaluation planning and assessment, negotiation planning and activities, contract award and ongoing contract management (including supplier relationship and performance management).

You will contribute towards our goal to be an accountable, transparent, engaged and responsive organisation committed to great customer experiences and continuous innovation in service delivery, sourcing and category strategies.

Good comprehensive knowledge of local government tendering and procurement legislation and procedures would be desirable, with highly developed interpersonal skills and relationship managements skills to communicate, lead and motivate others to achieve positive and desired outcomes.

**Position Description**

Position Description_Principal Procurement Specialist BCM.pdf

**Why City of Moreton Bay?**

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what _can be_ - for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

- **See it.** To build a city of the future, first, you have to _see it_. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our region. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- **Shape it.** You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our wo