Category Manager

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $111,103 - $121,274

**Grade**:Grade not specified

**Occupation**:Medicine, nursing and midwifery

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:13624
- Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging
- Work for Australia’s leading Children’s Hospital
- Hybrid role

**About the Role**
- This is a Permanent position at 80 hours per fortnight within the Procurement & Supply Chain team.
- You will be responsible for end-to-end procurement processes ensuring compliance with public procurement policies, probity and value for money. Utilises own initiative and leads several sourcing projects
- Classification for this position will range from AO71- AO75 (FTE base salary $111,103.2 - $121,274.2 per annum, plus superannuation)

**What you’ll achieve**:

- Managing Projects & Delivering Commercial Outcomes
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management

**Your skills and experience**
- A tertiary qualification or significant demonstratable experience related to Procurement.
- Experience in constructing and managing output focused contracts that encourage the delivery of goods and services in a manner that minimises costs to the organisation.
- Well-practiced in working with people at different levels, from junior staff through to Executive.
- Ability to effectively support colleagues to help them maximise their performance.
- A health sector background

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

**About the Department**
- The RCH Procurement department supports RCH staff to procure products and services in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. We can provide product information, locate sources of supply and expand options. We encourage a partnership approach to contract delivery which concentrates on genuine value, not just price.

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Flexible work options available

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**
- To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

Why work at the RCH?
- RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.
- We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.
- It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.
- It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption
- Are you ready to join our team?
- Applications close 9 September 2025

- Applications close Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 18 August 2025