Sourcing Consultant

12 month contracting opportunity
- Flexible work arrangement - Hybrid
- Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Brisbane based

**Delivering good energy starts from within**

It’s an exciting time to join Origin. Creating a great place to work means together we’re powering a cleaner, smarter energy future. We’re always looking for better ways to deliver for our customers - and for our people.

**The Role**

Reporting to the Sourcing Lead, the Sourcing Consultant is an influential role that sits within the Origin Procurement Team. The incumbent provides demonstrable knowledge, experience, and expertise within the Procurement & Supply Chain discipline as well as to stakeholders across all Origin business units to deliver Origin’s Purpose, guided by Origin’s Values.

**Responsibilities & Duties**
- Contributing to the development and implementation of a strategic sourcing framework to support the business units and functions in value creation, implementation and sustainment.
- Executing the framework and associated processes to provide sourcing outcomes valued by the business.
- Supporting the uplift of sourcing strategy and service requests across all business units and functions to improve outcomes and value creation opportunities.
- Contributing to monthly value realisation metrics across sourcing activities completed as part of the Procurement Insight Dashboard.
- Acting as a trusted advisor to business units and functions to build effective and value-adding sourcing strategies and commercial propositions for their specific category(ies).
- Efficient and effective execution of sourcing activity to enable outcomes aligned with the business unit definition of value.
- Supporting and championing leading practice enablers to support value creation, implementation and sustainment.

**About you**
- Minimum 5-7 years’ experience within a Procurement or Commercial team.
- Demonstrable commercial and business acumen, showing an appreciation for factors that will influence outcomes as well as an appreciation for potential risks and possible mitigants.
- Demonstrable experience negotiating large contracts and managing a broad portfolio of suppliers and services.
- Outstanding supplier engagement skills.
- Excellent communication skills - written & verbal

**Origin - Where good change happens.**

At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.

Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.

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