Procurement Specialist

**About the Role**
BOQ is continuing to grow and transform to deliver on our strategic goals to be a multi-branded digital bank of the future To support our continued transformation, we require the very best talent to join our team.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Specialist to join our Procurement team.

In this role you will be responsible for supporting all activities in the procurement lifecycle including planning, sourcing, contract negotiation, contract management, stakeholder management, and supplier management. This includes performing analytical and administrative duties within the Procurement team, along with taking accountability for nominated portfolios focused on the ICT and professional services categories. This role will require you to draw upon your specialist skillset to identify and analyse procurement issues and develop options to swiftly resolve them.

The objective of the position is to support the delivery of procurement solutions, maximise value, manage risk, improve efficiencies, and achieve quality for the BOQ Group whilst ensuring process in support of procurement activities are ethical and equitable in accordance with BOQ probity policy.

**About you**
We are looking for an individual who loves all things Procurement and enjoys a challenge
Ideally you will bring expertise having worked previously in a similar role in a large complex organisation. Your ability to communicate, influence and build effective stakeholder relationships will be critical to your success in this role. You will be an analytical and commercially astute individual with first class interpersonal skills who enjoys ICT and/or professional services sourcing and the evolving nature of Procurement.

You will have experience in facilitating the assessment of procurement risks, supporting the review and refinement of business specifications to ensure they are adequately defined, undertaking and developing negotiation strategies and independently fulfilling contract management duties.

This role offers so much opportunity and scope for a passionate, motivated and professional individual to grow the role and establish their career in banking and procurement.

**About Us**
BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.

BOQ’s Inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021 BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on: First Nations Reconciliation Council, Proudly ME (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

**How to Apply**

The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Job Reference: BOQ02701