Procurement Officer

1 day ago

Melbourne City Centre, Australia VicGrid Full time

**The Opportunity**

We are on the hunt for a dynamic Procurement Officer who will lead end-to-end sourcing and category management initiatives, providing expert procurement and contract management advice to deliver commercially effective solutions for VicGrid. Working as part of a small team, this role will drive best practice, engage stakeholders across the organisation, and support business improvement initiatives with strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. If this sounds like you, keep reading to find out more about the skills and experience you will bring with you.

**What you will deliver**
- Prepare tender documents, evaluate tenders, negotiate, and award contracts, providing guidance on evaluation processes and systems.
- Deliver end-to-end procurement and contracting services across diverse goods, services, and construction categories, ensuring compliance with frameworks.
- Provide business partnering and procurement advisory services to internal stakeholders.
- Manage procurement and contract management records to ensure probity, accountability, and audit readiness.
- Contribute to reporting frameworks by identifying data needs, collecting and analysing data, escalating issues, and proposing solutions.

**What you will bring**
- Tertiary qualification in commerce, business management, law, finance, procurement or relevant discipline and/or extensive relevant experience in a similar role.
- Extensive experience in procurement in a commercial, government or other large organisational settings.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in advising on complex goods and services contracts, with excellent ability to analyse data to support decision making, reporting and compliance monitoring.
- Demonstrated capability to successfully develop/execute business improvement strategies and initiatives, identifying opportunities for optimisation, and implementing best practices

**What we offer you**

We are committed to creating a workplace that inspires and engages you. Joining our new organisation as it establishes its footprint empowers and provides you with the opportunity to influence and shape our culture as well as providing:

- Career advancement and professional development opportunities
- Mental health and wellbeingofferings through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which is extended to team members and their families for work and personal issues
- Annual salary increases and incremental performance-based payments over the course of your employment
- Annual leave loading of 17.5% payment on top of your base salary when you take annual leave and ability to purchaseadditional leave

**Other relevant information**
- VicGrid is part of the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA). We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and focus on fair, consistent recruitment. We support work-life balance with flexible options like hybrid work, varied hours, part-time, job sharing, and additional leave.
- Applicants must have valid work rights for the contract period.

**How to Apply**

This is a fixed term position available on a two year fixed term contract located at 2 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Hybrid work arrangements available. To be considered for this position, applicants are encouraged to submit a resume and cover letter (no longer than 2 pages) summarising their skills and relevant experience. For further information please refer to the attached position description.

Applications close at 11:59pm on 20th July 2025.

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