Principal Procurement Manager

Location: Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000
- Req ID: 77386

**Principal Procurement Manager**

**Clerk Grade 11/12**
- Ongoing Full-Time
- Location - Sydney (Haymarket)
- Flexible/hybrid work options available
- Anticipated start date: October 2025

**About us**

Legal Aid NSW helps people with their legal problems. We can help people with most areas criminal law, family law and every day civil law legal issues. We give legal advice, help at court and do family dispute resolution. We can do this over the telephone or at one of our 28 offices.

**About the role**

The Principal Procurement Manager leads and directs the provision of procurement services, including procurement planning, development, sourcing, contract and risk management activities, to achieve value for money and to meet business needs and government directions on procurement.

**About you**

You are a seasoned Procurement professional with proven experience/knowledge within NSW government who can leverage their network of government procurement specialists. Reporting to the Principal Manager Finance, you have the demonstrated experience with interpretating and determining legislative impacts preferably within the ICT Procurement space.

Throughout your career, you have become no stranger to collaborating and building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to develop innovative strategies, high level negotiations and manage contracts to deliver value for money outcomes.

Coupled with developing and implementing procurement plans to meet business requirements, you have exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Additionally, you possess proficiency in C-suite communications.

You possess strong leadership skills, experience in management of delegations and processes and demonstrated capability to operate with a high-level of autonomy and provide expert advice and support to all key stakeholders.

**WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN LEGAL AID NSW**

**We are committed to diversity and inclusion**

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and genuinely inclusive organisation and workplace for everyone who works and interacts with us. We strive to be a place where people from diverse backgrounds want to work, where voices and cultures are valued and where people feel valued, welcomed, respected and heard.

**Other benefits of working with us**
- You will have access to training, development and mentoring opportunities.
- We are an accredited Flex Ready certified employer and are recognised as leaders in flexible work. Most of our staff work flexibly — for example, from home some of the time or in a way that helps them balance family and work life.

about Working at Legal Aid NSW

**The essential requirements for this role**

You must:

- minimum of five (5) years procurement experience
- excellent knowledge of procurement within NSW government
- be willing to do a Criminal Record Check
- hold Australian or NZ citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency (for ongoing vacancies)

**Key knowledge and experience**
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong C-suite communications
- ICT Procurement experience
- As an unaccredited agency, access to a network of government procurement specialists

**How to apply**
- your resume (no more than 4 pages)
- cover letter (no more than 2 pages). In your cover letter, please address the two (2) below targeted questions.
- Describe how you implemented effective governance measures which assist in monitoring the procurement process. How did you ensure stakeholder compliance?
- Provide an example where you were required to translate technical information into more simplistic language for an audience to understand it?

**Do you need help to apply?**
- If you are an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and are thinking about applying, you can contact the Aboriginal Services Branch to arrange a confidential conversation about any questions you may have.
- The Role Description sets out the responsibilities of the role.