Category Specialist, Food

3 days ago


Adelaide Region SA, Australia Discovery Parks Full time

Be part of the growth of a South Australian success story
- Develop and implement category management strategies and deliver cost saving
- Full time, permanent position, based in Adelaide CBD

**About Us**

G’day Group comprises three leading Australian tourism brands in Discovery Parks, G’day Parks and loyalty program G’day Rewards. Employing more than 1800 people Australia-wide, G’day Group has a truly national footprint of over 300 holiday parks, including 85 fully owned and operated parks and Resorts. The largest park network in the country, we’re about authentic Australian holiday experiences and inviting all Aussies to say g’day to more of Australia.

We’re on a journey of growth and evolution to reshape the industry, offering the best customer experience underpinned by the best technology. With eyes on domestic and regional tourism like never before we are building a passionate, adaptable, high performance team to deliver holiday memories that put a smile in every g’day.

**The Role**

As the Food & Beverage Category Specialist you will be primarily responsible for managing the strategic procurement plan to ensure the required savings and business growth objectives are achieved. You will be involved in the establishment, placement and management of contracting arrangements with suppliers to deliver the optimum service, quality, cost, schedule and safety requirements for the business, combined with relationship and performance management to achieve enhanced business value.

Reporting to the Head of Legal & Procurement you will be responsible for delivering savings to the business by utilising your skills in creating innovative processes and product supplies for the assigned categories. The role will also encompass developing the go to market strategy and business requirements, managing the supplier evaluation process, conduct supplier negotiations, finalise commercial agreements and the transition phase.

You must be able to demonstrate previous experience with developing sourcing strategies to optimise supply base and enhance the TCO of external spend as well as identifying and managing supply chain risks and opportunities across Food & Beverage.

The Category Specialist will be conducting and leading business reviews with the suppliers, coordinate standardisation and best practices across our Parks network, and be managing the online portal for key indirect categories as you work towards meeting your annual savings targets.

**Your Experience**

At least 3+ years demonstrated work experience in Procurement is highly essential as is possessing highly developed communication skills including verbal, written and presentation.

You must be able to prove previous experience with developing and negotiating contracts for Food & Beverage categories. Having a solid track record of delivering successful key supplier obligations whilst maximising cost savings is essential as is possessing extensive experience with supplier relationship management.

A professional qualification in Procurement (CIPSA) is not essential but desirable.

To be successful in this role you must possess a high level of energy, self-motivation, decisiveness, initiative, flexibility and attention to detail to be able to meet our growing business demands at Discovery Parks. Your naturally upbeat and open style will fit our cultural values. You will have a highly organised mindset, with the ability to assess the urgency of work allocated to you by various stakeholders whilst working closely with our established Procurement Team.
- Discovery Parks is committed to ensuring the health and safety of all our staff, customers and the communities we operate in. Due to the latest highly contagious Covid-19 Delta variant, Discovery Parks has implemented a vaccination policy which requires all employees, wherever possible, to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. This covid vaccination policy applies to all new Discovery Parks employees._

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