Contracts Manager, Queensland Health

1 week ago


Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia Department of Health - Queensland Full time $104,000 - $130,878 per year

Take the lead as a Contracts Manager with Darling Downs Health, where no two days are the same. You'll oversee complex, high-value projects, negotiate strategic contracts, and empower a high-performing team to deliver results that shape the future of healthcare procurement.

What your day will look like….

You'll be at the heart of high-level procurement and contract management, guiding a dedicated team and working closely with stakeholders across Darling Downs Health. Your day will involve leading complex negotiations, providing expert advice, and ensuring contracts deliver both commercial value and community benefit. You'll collaborate with suppliers and internal partners to design forward-thinking procurement strategies, while also mentoring your team to grow capability and deliver excellence. Every decision you make will help secure resources, streamline processes, and strengthen outcomes that improve healthcare across the region.

Let's talk about you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:

  • Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
  • Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
  • Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
  • Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
  • Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.

Why Us?

Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect.  DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

  • Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
  • A diverse work culture
  • Career development
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Education opportunities, Study and Research
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Discounted Private Health Insurance
  • Fitness Passport
  • Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
  • Generous Salary Sacrificing

Next step….

Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.

Find out more about us

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