Procurement - Category Manager

**About ACH Group**: For over 70 years, ACH Group a leading not-for-profit in aged care, has enriched the lives of older South Australians. With over 1,900 dedicated individuals working together, we’re able to create good lives for our customers. With purpose led roles across residential care, retirement living, home and community care, health and wellness, social experiences and corporate teams, our workforce deliver impact for our residents and customers.
**The role**: ACH Group is seeking a Category Manager to join our Procurement team on a full time basis, based at Mile End. With an annual OPEX spend $50m+, the Procurement Category Manager will be responsible for a range of procurement categories including property cleaning, allied health/ medical items and furniture, trades, hardware, and safety systems.
**What you’ll do**:

- Lead the development of category plans designed to deliver value -for -money outcomes, manage risk and deliver optimal business requirements.
- Build and maintain strong and constructive working relationships with all key stakeholders to deliver optimal outcomes for your categories.
- Identify innovative procurement solutions that provide cashable savings and process efficiencies for the organisation.
- Facilitating and managing tendering processes, sourcing deals and delivery and quality for a complete procurement lifecycle.
- Use influence and specialist knowledge to highlight and address issues and develop solutions with consideration for likely business impacts which ensuring stakeholders are actively engaged in the problem
- solving process.
- Maintain expert knowledge of supply markets, competitors, and product innovations within your elected categories.
- Focus on governance and risk management for your elected categories being able to identify and mitigate risks in areas such as modern slavery, continuity of supply and WHS.
- Establish, maintain and report to monitor supplier performance and compliance requirements.
- Work with and support the Head of Procurement to deliver other key procurement and commercial initiatives as required.

About You
To be successful in this role you will need the skills to influence and drive change and to engage with a range of key stakeholders. Reporting to the Head of Procurement you will ideally possess:

- Customer experience skills and mindset
- Procurement and contract management skills
- Solution focused
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills
- Proactive and relationship oriented

**You will need**:

- Relevant tertiary qualification in Procurement, Business, Management, Commerce, Supply Chain or similar
- Experience as a Procurement Specialist or Category Manager or equivalent role
- Highly developed interpersonal and relationship building skills, demonstrating excellent behaviours with stakeholders.
- Strong customer service and quality focus
- A Police Check for working in Aged Care less than 12 months old

**If you want to join our amazing team, we can offer you**:

- Career development with inhouse upskilling and external learning opportunities
- Friendly and inclusive culture, supporting diversity and employee wellbeing
- Free on-site flu vaccination program
- Financial advice for HESTA members, our preferred superannuation supplier
- Wellbeing program including free employee assistance program
- Recognition program acknowledging significant contributions
- Salary packaging to maximise your take home pay
- Discounted Corporate Membership - Health Insurance - BUPA

ACH Group is a not-for-profit organisation in the Health Care Sector. This means that you can salary package up to $15,900 per annum for living expenses and $2,650 for meals/entertainment to reduce your tax. We also offer a range of perks through our Employee Benefits Program (eg. discounted private health).
**How to Apply**: Press ‘Apply’ now.
**Applications close**: 10th February 2025.
ACH Group celebrates and encourages workforce diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, disability or any other basis.