Sourcing Manager

**Sourcing Manager, 12 month Temporary. Locations: Either Sydney CBD, Gosford or Parramatta**

The Department of Customer Service (DCS) is looking for an enthusiastic and team-orientated individual within the Corporate Services Procurement Team for a 12-month maternity contract. The successful applicant will support Corporate Procurement to provide high quality end-to-end sourcing and contract management to deliver value for money and effectively meet business outcomes. The role is to provide a range of specialised procurement advice and services to agencies within the Department.

The right applicant will be a team player able to hit the ground running, who can work autonomously and as part of a team. **Procurement experience** is desired.

**Benefits**
- Fantastic 12-month maternity contract, clerk grade 9/10 Opportunity
- Salary range: $116,211 - $128,061 + super, appropriate to experience
- Genuinely flexible working arrangements
- State of the art offices in Sydney CBD, Gosford, and Parramatta
- Wellbeing programs and resources available
- Excellent career development and learning development opportunities
- Discounted Gym Memberships and Employee Assistance Programs

**About Us**

Procurement’s overarching purpose is to provide **timely, insightful, and outcomes-based** support to our customers, enabling better decisions and increased Procurement compliance. We are striving to be the **world’s best customer centric procurement function** within the public sector **as measured by people, customer excellence and performance.**

**We exist to serve our stakeholders** within the DCS Cluster, so they can continue to provide cutting edge technology and other important support to the millions of citizens of NSW.

Our team sits within the Corporate Services Division of DCS, reporting to the DCS Chief Operating Officer. Corporate Procurement has four functions within the team: Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), Business Partnering, Sourcing, and Centre of Excellence. This role sits within the Sourcing team and is accountable to the Procurement Strategy Manager.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Develop, co-ordinate and lead sourcing activities to establish supply arrangements that meet business needs
- Plan and lead contract negotiations in the establishment and review of supply arrangements to deliver value for money procurement outcomes
- Manage and co-ordinate all aspects of contract management services including developing and administering contract management plans, negotiating changes and modifications, monitoring, and analysing performance, addressing non-performance, and ensuring compliance requirements to achieve the required contract outcomes
- Provide high level advice and guidance to customers and stakeholders including a cross functional team of specialist across multiple business and portfolio to build expertise in procurement, provide governance and improve procurement practice and outcomes
- Document procurement processes, decisions, and contractual arrangements to facilitate audit trail for probity and collaborate with relevant state agencies for audit purposes

***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:

- Business acumen, data analytic skills, **problem solving, digital dexterity, stakeholder management and intellectual curiosity**:

- **Customer centric** mindset
- ** **Leadership skills** are second nature
- An **analytical **thinker who can think outside the box to solve complex problems
- A **flexible **worker who can adjust their capabilities to suit a variety of stakeholders
- The 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 9/10, with the base salary for this role starting at $116211 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date: Thursday 23rd February 10am**

**Working at Department of Customer Service**

The Department of Customer Service (DCS) is a great place to work Our values of accountability, trust, service, and integrity drive our initiatives and culture. We support innovative programs in areas as broad as digital government, consumer protection and major public works. We are an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity and flexible