Category Specialist Network Services

**Category Specialist Network Services**

Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000

**About us**:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. CitiPower and Powercor Australia is an essential service, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity vital for our customers and a clean energy future.

In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.

**About the Role**:
We currently have an exciting permanent opportunity for an experienced Category Specialist to join our Procurement Team, based at our head office located in the CBD.

Working within the Network Services category, this position will focus on developing effective and tactical suppliers through designing and implementing sourcing plans and strategies.

Working collaboratively with the assigned Category Manager, this role will be key in establishing strong supplier relationships focusing on improving operational efficiency, quality and cost of all third-party suppliers of CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy. In addition, the role will also proactively manage risk and performance for all Network Services procurement categories.

**About you**:
**In this role you will deliver**:

- Develop, manage and oversee lower value RFx’s, along with completing detailed pre & post RFx analysis
- Engage and understand Business Unit (BU) needs and ensure their requirements are reflected in RFx
- Maintain category purchasing and user profiles, and conduct market analysis and benchmarking
- Develop and implement supplier management/supplier process improvement projects, track cost reduction and value add benefits, and negotiate contact amendments as appropriate.
- Implement lessons learned from debriefs with stakeholders to ensure any issues or clarifications on Procurement outcomes are addressed
- Reporting/Compliance activities including preparation of monthly/quarterly reports for business units and senior management
- Conduct regular meetings with the suppliers and key internal stakeholders and maintenance of associated records

**To succeed in this role, you will have**:

- Degree qualified - Commerce, Business, Law or Engineering (preferred)
- Strong understanding of all aspects of the Network Services Procurement Categories and knowledge of the suppliers that operate within these domains
- Extensive experience in end-to-end procurement, preferably in a Utility Services, global or major corporate organisation for major projects
- Experience across the full range of procurement activities including category management, vendor management and/or strategic sourcing
- Experience negotiating contracts on both supplier terms and conditions and corporate terms and conditions
- Experience working within a major organisation in procurement of direct services, preferably within utilities.

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability. Working with us means being fully supported to make the most of new experiences, and to build a career through a range of opportunities to learn from the best and to grow in a safe, inclusive, flexible and collaborative environment.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**

OUR VALUES: Live safely, Be Customer and Community Minded, Succeed Together, Be The Best You Can Be, Improve Our Business

**Job Segment**:Network, Strategic Sourcing, Business Process, Environmental Engineering, Procurement, Technology, Operations, Management, Engineering

**Job Type**: Permanent