Procurement Leader, Consultancy and Legal
2 days ago
**Procurement Leader - Consultancy & Legal**
- **Location Brisbane or Sydney**
**About the role**:
The role exists to deliver procurement category management across the Suncorp Group, focusing on Consulting and Legal Services
It will require the development of category plans and strategies, subsequent sourcing/negotiation initiatives and ongoing management of the existing contract portfolio.
**More specifically, you will**:
**Strategic initiatives**
**The role is responsible for developing and implementing category plans, sourcing strategies and/or negotiation strategies that**:
- Gather appropriate market and industry intelligence about categories in scope
- Analyse and summarise existing contracts and current spend
- Align to business requirements
- Identify initiatives that derive benefits, through sourcing, demand management and/or contract management opportunities
- Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, inter-dependencies and potential benefits
- Leverage strong collaborative supplier relationships and supplier innovation, which enable additional value for Suncorp
- Define appropriate supply models for each category of spend
- Align Supplier and Suncorp processes to drive efficiencies for both parties
- Determine the roles & responsibilities between Procurement and stakeholders within the Suncorp Group; this will involve an assessment of complexity, existing intellectual property, risk, legal requirements, budget ownership and other relevant factors are approved by the relevant sponsors within Suncorp
- Establish contracts that are competitive, reduce risk and optimise supply through appropriate SLAs
- Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance
**Maintenance of Suppliers and Contracts**
**The role is responsible for managing a category of existing suppliers and contracts, with the aim of**:
- Planning for a pipeline of contract renewal activity
- Ensuring contract renewals are competitive, delivered through an appropriate supply model and well scoped
- Manage supplier performance including SLA’s governance and other contract deliverables
- Execute extensions, variations and terminations of legal instruments that meet stakeholders’ business needs
- Monitor leakage indicators and propose viable solutions to category owners and business owners
- Map and identify opportunities to improve demand management
- Resolve supplier disputes that have been escalated or are of a systematic or strategic nature.
**About you**:
- Tertiary education, with a Procurement & Supply Chain focus or an Information Technology, Business or Commerce related degree. Desired
- Experienced procurement professional with minimum of 5 years’ experience in procurement. Mandatory
- Experience with Consultancy and Legal services type agreements. Desired
- Experience in large organisations with complex environments. Mandatory
- Experience in a centralised procurement/commercial environment providing services to a broad customer base. Mandatory
- Experienced in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results. Mandatory
- Experience in delivering quality outputs within tight timeframes within a standardised project management framework and structured procurement approach. Mandatory
- Experience in working with others in a (preferably commercial) strategy setting role. Mandatory
**Key Capabilities**:
**Procurement (Advanced)**
- Experience across various procurement activities including vendor management and strategic sourcing
- Strong negotiation and communication skills demonstrated across a range of supplier, commercial and internal stakeholder management contexts
**Analytics (Advanced)**
- Analytical business skills
- Displays financial / commercial acumen and seasoned business judgment
- Demonstrate experience in understanding and extracting benefits out of value chains
- Exhibit value chain analysis knowledge to assist the business meet their objectives
**General Business (Advanced)**
- Verbal and written communication skills - including presentation and communications to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) level as required
- Time management skills and ability to manage a number of concurrent tasks with differing timelines and deliverables
- Ability to cope with pressure, prioritise workload and meet agreed timetables
**Legal (Advanced)**
- Understand legal, regulatory and contractual frameworks
- Experienced in formulating legal contractual documents and schedules under legal guidance
**Logistics (Intermediate)**
- Understand Asset Management principles including total cost of ownership
- Understand the impact of Supply Chain structures and cost drivers
**Management and Leadership (Intermediate)**
- Demonstrated ability to establish goals and objectives to determine the best way forward
- Proven ability to formulate and deliver innovative practical business process solutions and to demonstrate the value of an innovative solution to stakeholder
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