Manager Procurement Excellence

**Manager Procurement Excellence, 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 expert advice in procurement intelligence, from a range of data sources, through business analysis, cost modelling, reporting, and performance analysis to inform procurement decisions, support performance improvement, and to enable stakeholders to meet business needs and expectations.
The role is to provide a range of specialised procurement advice and services to agencies within the Department.

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 one vacancy for a Manager Procurement Excellence to join our team

**Benefits**
- Fantastic ongoing clerk grade 9/10 Opportunity
- Salary range: $113,343 - $124,901+ 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 Centre of Excellence team and reports to the Senior Manager Procurement Excellence, who reports directly to the Chief Procurement Officer.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Partner with key stakeholders to determine their business needs, and provide high quality procurement reports and insights to inform procurement decisions
- Contribute to the development of innovative procurement and category management strategies, policies and processes to achieve enhanced compliance outcomes
- Proactively identify, manage and provide advice on political, commercial, contractual, operational, financial, reputational, ethical and supply chain risks to meet organisational obligations and maximise business opportunity
- Develop, assess and provide reports for the effective management of supplier performance and to track and report on benefits delivered
- Document procurement processes, decisions and contractual arrangements to conduct audit trails and reporting

**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 flexible worker who can adjust their capabilities to suit a variety of stakeholders
- The go to person for interpreting the NSW Government Procurement Policy Framework and ensuring DCS policy and procedures align in an easy-to-understand way for compliance across DCS
- 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.?

**Closing Date: Tuesday 16th August 10am**

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