Procurement Officer

**Procurement Officer - Long Service Corporation**

**Grade**:Clerk 7/8
**Duration**: Ongoing/Full-time
**Salary range**: $106,025 - $117,363 + Superannuation
**Location**: Gosford
**Applications Close**:Tuesday 17th September 2024 [at 9:59am]

**About Us**

DCS Fair Trading Policy & Delivery works across a broad portfolio of functions and projects to deliver regulation in NSW. Regulations that are modern, innovative and collaborative, competitive for businesses, responsive to our customers’ needs, protect the community we serve and give people confidence to engage in economic and social activities. Our vision is for a safer community and a vibrant economy, supported by better regulation.

Within DCS Fair Trading, Policy & Delivery, the Long Service Corporation (LSC) manages building and construction industry and contract cleaning industry portable long service schemes. We are based in Gosford and currently have a team of around 120 dedicated staff focused on improving our customers’ experience.

**About the role**

We are seeking to recruit a self-motivated and experienced procurement specialist to manage procurement activities for LSC.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Validate business needs, compile, and source market information, and assist in analysing markets and assessing risk to inform procurement planning.
- Provide advice, information and guidance on procurement related matters to stakeholders across the agency to provide governance and support good practice in procurement.
- Implement and contribute to the development of contract management plans, resolve issues, monitor performance and negotiate contract variations through effective supplier relationships to enhance business outcomes.
- Identify, mitigate and escalate procurement risks to enable the organisation to meet its obligations and maximise business opportunities.
- Maintain and update procurement records and generate reports on procurement and contract activity to meet organisational compliance requirements and provide access to procurement information.

**About you**:

- Driven and passionate with a can-do attitude.
- Strong experience focusing on technology procurement, commercial negotiation and end to end sourcing.
- Experience using eTendering with specific focus on publication of tenders, addendums and contract award notices.
- Comprehensive understanding of technologies and ICT trends.
- Comfortable supporting large tender processes.
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of NSW Government procurement policies and practice.

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**:
To start your journey towards becoming our Procurement Officer, please click on the link below and attach a cover letter (max 2 pages) and your resume (max 5 pages) which clearly details your skills and experience as relevant to this role.

Salary Grade 7/8, with the base salary for this role starting at $106025 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date**:Tuesday 17th September 2024 [at 9:59am]

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