Senior Sourcing Specialist

Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?

At Acenda, we draw on over 135 years of heritage to empower a brighter future with security and confidence.

Our values-driven business strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future. As part of the global Nippon Life Group, we will enhance our capabilities and further strengthen our enduring commitment to putting customers at the heart of everything we do. And to support our partners to do the same.

We believe that when people have the support, clarity, and confidence they need, they can do their best work and build a future they're proud of. We encourage our people to take life on – inside and outside of work – to grow and make a real impact for our customers, partners, and each other.

The role

Reporting to the Sourcing Portfolio Manager, the Senior Sourcing Specialist role is a 12-month fixed term contract opportunity and sits within our wider Sourcing and Partnerships team.

You will be responsible for working collaboratively and proactively with key stakeholders from across the business to understand and engage with the supply market on key business needs and objectives.

You will play a support role to the Sourcing Portfolio Manager and the wider team on strategic projects and supplier engagements and other cyclical activities ranging from reviewing upcoming contract expiries to supporting the contracts renewal process.

About you

An experienced Senior Sourcing Specialist, you possess a minimum of 3 to 5+ years of experience in a similar capacity within a highly regulated environment, across various categories such as professional services and/or IT.

You possess strong understanding and knowledge in the end-to-end supply chain and procurement lifecycle including contracts negotiations and executions/extensions and working with external suppliers on any source to contract market activities.

You have the passion and ambition for achieving great value procurement outcomes,with the willingness to pro-actively take ownership of tasks and activities assigned to you.

Lastly, you possess the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive delivery of any business objectives and outcomes.

Bringing our best to life - why join us?

·       We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.

·       We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.

·       We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.

·       We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.

·       We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.

·       We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our Reconciliation Action Plan and sustainability commitments.

We celebrate the diversity of our customers and community, and we embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into how we do business. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and identities.

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.