Procurement Strategy Manager

A dynamic and ambitious Procurement Manager is sought by the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA)

**Benefits**
- Fantastic ongoing clerk grade 11/12 Opportunity.
- Salary range: $131,094- $151,609+ 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.

**About SIRA**

SIRA is an independent agency, established under the _State Insurance and Care Governance Act 2015_, responsible for the stewardship and regulation of the State's worker's compensation, motor accident compulsory third party (CTP), and home building compensation schemes. SIRA forms part of the Customer Service cluster.

Worker’s compensation and CTP insurance are the two largest injury insurance schemes in NSW, collectively providing an essential social safety net for more than 100,000 people injured at work or on the road in NSW each year. At any one time, almost 220,000 people are supported through these schemes following an injury in a workplace or on the road. The schemes are funded by 320,000 employers and 5.7 million vehicle owners, who together pay $6.8 billion in premiums each year.

As the peak insurance regulator and system steward, SIRA is focused on ensuring that people have access to the benefits and support they need to recover, return to work, or achieve the best possible quality-of-life outcome. That role is balanced with ensuring that policies are affordable, and the schemes remain financially sustainable.

**About the Role**

As **Procurement Manager** and team leader in our team, you will be a hands-on leader who will develop, lead and execute sourcing strategies based on research and analysis to optimise value for money outcomes and meet SIRA’s needs and expectations.

Directly reporting to the SIRA Chief Financial Officer (CFO), you will provide leadership in service delivery, innovation and planning to meet organisational goals. You will promote a professional, high functioning, and collaborative culture as a leader.

Your impact will be seen by:

- Leading negotiations on high impact, complex supply arrangements and contract issues to deliver better outcomes.
- Providing expert advice to SIRA’s stakeholders on all aspects of procurement
- Leading the development and implementation of policies, procedures, systems and performance management frameworks for all procurement related activity
- Developing and implementing procurement plans and strategies
- Partnering with SIRA’s stakeholders to develop innovative supply strategies, establish supply arrangements, lead high-level negotiations and manage contracts
- Providing authoritative advice to SIRA’s stakeholders on all aspects of the procurement function
- Leading and managing a team of up to 3 to successfully deliver procurement business plans and achieve optimal outcomes from procurement activity.

**About you**:
To be successful in the Procurement Manager role with SIRA, you will need to have:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant commercial discipline with professional procurement qualification or a membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply - MCIPS (desirable).
- 5+ years of progressive career experience leading a procurement function.
- Knowledge of procurement environment within the NSW Government (desirable).
- Extensive understanding of end-to-end supplier lifecycle processes including supplier risk assessment and onboarding, ongoing due diligence and supplier offboarding.
- Exceptional technical/business written and verbal communication skills and a commitment to process improvement.
- Exceptional leadership capabilities and people management skills.
- Ability to navigate within a matrix-style environment whilst prioritising competing deadlines and stakeholders.
- Exceptional ability to analyse data/information with a high level of accuracy and think strategically to solve problems.

**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**

**Closing date: Wednesday 3**rd** August [at 9.59am]**

**What we need from you**:
A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities.

**Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Flexibility**

We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and new ways of working.

We understand that there are different ways of getting the job done and offer flexible working arrangements where and when possible.

Visit our Careers site to find out what it means to work for us.