Sourcing Advisor

**Sourcing Advisor, Ongoing, Sydney**

***The Department of Customer Service (DCS) is looking for an enthusiastic and team-orientated individual within the Corporate Services Procurement Team. The successful applicant will support DCS Corporate Procurement to provide procurement expertise and assist stakeholders to plan, source, and manage procurement and contract management services to effectively meet business outcomes and government directions.

This position involves working in a fast-paced environment with the opportunity to grow and develop in a supportive and collaborative team. The right applicant will be a team player willing to hit the ground running, who can work autonomously and as part of a team.

The Corporate Services Procurement Team are currently undergoing transformation with several exciting opportunities including three current vacancies for a Sourcing Advisors to join our team

***Benefits**
- Fantastic ongoing clerk grade 7/8 Opportunity
- Salary range: $99,431 - $110,064 + super, commensurate with experience
- Genuinely flexible working arrangements
- State of the art offices
- Wellbeing programs and resources available
- Excellent career development and learning development opportunities
- Discounted Gym Memberships and Employee Assistance Programs

**About Us**

This is an exciting opportunity to work in our Corporate Procurement Team which services the DCS cluster. The team sits within the Corporate Services Division of DCS, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer for DCS. Corporate Procurement has three functions within the team: Business Partnering, Sourcing, and Centre of Excellence. This role sits within the Sourcing team and reports to a Senior Sourcing Manager, who reports directly to the Chief Procurement Officer.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Proactively engage with business to facilitate development of appropriate procurement plans with scope, timelines and accountabilities, gathering/challenging requirements to understand business needs and facilitate procurement actions
- Compile and source market information to analyse markets and assess risk to inform procurement planning and sourcing decisions
- Organise and manage high value/risk sourcing events, facilitating negotiations, developing documents for tenders, contracts etc, recommending best value for money suppliers in line with the corporate sourcing strategies and policies to meet business needs and deliver successful procurement outcomes
- Provide support to the business to successfully conduct low value/risk sourcing events, guiding, and assisting in the efficient sourcing processes to save costs and maximise profitability
- Provide high quality contract management services including administering contract management plans, negotiating changes and modifications, and ensuring compliance requirements to achieve the required contract outcomes
- Accurate records management in line with DCS Corporate Procurement’s records management policy and procedure

***About you**:
You are genuinely passionate about procurement with demonstrable experience delivering excellence in governance, guidelines and processes which inform sustainable procurement and enhanced user experience. You are committed to your team and are flexible and reliable when your help is needed.

Some of your key attributes include:

- An analytical thinker who can think outside the box to solve complex problems
- A team player with strong work ethic, who values feedback and supporting the team to succeed
- A flexible worker who can adjust their capabilities to suit a variety of stakeholders
- A go to person for reading and interpreting the NSW Government Procurement Policy Framework
- Thrives around people, working towards collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- A strong background in public policy, preferably in the regulatory space

If you want to be part of this forward thinking, innovative team that thrive in challenging the status quo, we would love to hear from you

**What we need from you**:
A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities.

Salary Grade 7/8, with the base salary for this role starting at $99,431 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date: Monday 12th September at 10am**

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