Tactical Procurement Lead

Join a prominent WA brand and purpose driven organisation
- Exciting leadership opportunity to shape decisions that will develop & sustain WA’s water sources
- Salary: $131,740 + Super + Benefits

**About the role**

In this important role, you will lead procurement, tactical sourcing and supplier operations related to management of goods and service to the Corporation to meet its business needs in a timely and effective manner.

We’re looking for a superstar to mentor our Tactical Procurement team in navigating their journey to the tactical sourcing whilst ensuring sustainable and continuing procurement performance improvement and best practice.

**Benefits that matter because you do too**

Working in the heart of Perth’s best cosmopolitan hub, our Leederville office is only a skip, hop and a jump from the Leederville train station.

In this is a permanent, full-time role, you’ll get to enjoy our flexible working arrangements, including flexible working arrangements, which means you’ll have more time for the important things in life.
- Boundless variety_
- You'll get the opportunity to carve a career path as diverse as the different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives of a team of more than 5000 solution seekers.
- Hybrid working between locations including Leederville and Home

When you join Water Corporation, you play an important role for the people of WA. Our services are essential for life - everyday, millions of Western Australians rely on us to deliver and manage water across our state.

If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution, you’ve come to the right place.
- Real benefits that matter._
- You’ll also get the option to work a 9-day fortnight and work from home two days per week.
- Two well-being days each year to do whatever you need to do to feel good
- Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
- Generous co-contribution superannuation up to 14%
- Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave

Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.

**About you**:
There are a few things that we’ll look for in your CV;
- Tertiary level qualification in a business related discipline and / or extensive Procurement experience in a large multi-disciplined engineering focussed commercial organisation
- Substantial experience in purchasing and supplier management strategies, plans, programs and systems, including the sourcing, planning and managing contracts and agreements for a range of goods, services and works
- Considerable experience and demonstrated advanced knowledge of the commercial management of Procurement.
- Capable as a member and can manage multi-disciplined teams to foster sound relationship management and to enhance joint business capability.

**What the role will involve**
- Participate in and contribute to the development and implementation of procurement change initiatives to ensure sustainable and continuing procurement performance improvement and best practice.
- Lead the procurement planning, commercial sourcing advice and purchasing support to ensure alignment with broader sourcing strategy and procurement road map.
- Lead commercial sourcing advice, support and guidance to the business and direct reports to ensure alignment to the Corporations commercial sourcing strategy.
- Identify, source, plan, develop and manage panels of preferred supplier agreements and period contracts for the procurement of tactical services, consultancy, labour hire and travel at a tactical level to support Capital Works projects.
- Initiate and analyse Corporate spend of goods and services for consolidation.
- Influence the customers’ business planning activities to ensure the supply chain process is recognised understood and implemented.
- Identify and collaborate with major suppliers and contractors who can provide goods and services to meet the Corporation’s on-going needs, ensuring they are technically and commercially capable of providing and trading through e
- procurement systems.

**Apply**:If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.

As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.

**Applications close 5 February 2025**

**_ We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date._**

**Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace**:
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website