Procurement Officer

Looking to grow your procurement career in a purpose-led, people-first organisation?

Join Mutual Marketplace as a Procurement Officer and be part of a collaborative team that's simplifying business for some of Australia's most trusted customer-owned banks. Whether you're based in Brisbane or Adelaide, this is your chance to make a real impact, build strong stakeholder relationships, and thrive in a flexible, values-driven workplace.

ABOUT US

Mutual Marketplace Pty Ltd is an exciting, shared services company that is jointly owned by two of Australia's largest credit unions, People First Bank and Great Southern Bank. We provide high-quality, customer-driven shared services to help drive sustainability.

We do this by putting our customers at the heart of everything we do and are always innovating, improving, and simplifying how we do things. Our purpose is to deliver shared services that make business simple.

Central to all that we do, and driving our daily decisions are our KARE Values of

• Kindness,
• Ambition,
• Responsibility, and
• Efficiency

ABOUT THE ROLE

We have a new opportunity for a Procurement Officer in either of our Brisbane or Adelaide offices.

As Procurement Officer, you will be required to undertake contract management activities allocated via category and customer requirements, including:

• renewals,
• extensions and
• reviews that ensure ongoing suitability.

In addition, you will assist your team members as required with their procurement activities across customers, including:

• market analysis,
• preparing documentation for RF(x) and evaluations, and
• customer reports.

You will establish and manage strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including customer and business owners.

You will contribute to tangible benefits to Mutual Marketplace's performance and productivity through expedient delivery of customer requirements and perpetual excellence in communication. As a team member, you will contribute to the delivery of Mutual Marketplace services to our customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Your working week will be busy and diverse, including but not limited to the following core responsibilities:

• Maintain contract details on MM's supplied procurement management software.
• Actively communicate to all stakeholders with respect to procurement contract data.
• Ensure contract amendments are focused on delivering commercially agreeable outcomes for all parties.
• Maintain contract details including Supplier records, identified risks and mitigation in MM's contract management system.
• Participate in achieving cost savings, improved efficiencies and risk mitigation in procurement process activities.
• Build strong working relationships and a shared understanding with Mutual Marketplace customers business owners, providing guidance on procurement activities, and provide support to the Procurement team.
• Act as a representative for MM with both internal and external stakeholders and suppliers.
• Mitigate MM and Customer risks using best practice procurement processes and policies.
• Recognise and recommend uplifts to policies and procedures where appropriate.

WHY JOIN MUTUAL MARKETPLACE?

When you join Mutual Marketplace, you are joining a supportive, driven team in a collaborative work environment with a great company culture, where you can grow and thrive in the next step of your career.

Our people are at the centre of what we do and in addition, we offer:

• Flexible hybrid work-from-home (WFH) options and true work-life balance
• Competitive remuneration package – reviewed annually.
• 5 additional 'life leave' days per year in addition to your annual leave
• Employee Assistance Program, supporting you and your family's health and wellbeing.
• Professional development and training opportunities including CIPS education and qualifications
• Annual flu shot.
• Bi- Annual conference…and more.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please apply via Seek with a covering letter and resume outlining your experience and relevant attributes in relation to the core competencies of this role.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia. Applicants will be required to undertake appropriate background screening and referees will be sought from candidates following the interview process. For further information or for a confidential discussion please contact Human Resources at 

Mutual Marketplace is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that celebrates the difference in all our employees. We endeavour to ensure our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all applicants, and if you require any special accommodations to apply for this role, we encourage you to let us know at the time of your application.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Mutual Marketplace collects the personal information you provide in your application, and via the application process, in order to assess your application. During the application process, we are also likely to collect personal information about you from third parties, such as referees when they provide references, academic institutions or training, certification providers, providers of licence and background-checking services, recruiters, and other service providers who assist in the process, and other publicly available sources such as social media platforms. If you choose not to provide us with the personal information requested, we may be unable to process your application.

We disclose your personal information to our workers who assist us in operating our business, third parties to whom you have agreed we may disclose your information, or as otherwise required or authorised by law.  We use third-party service providers to operate our business and assess your application, and those third-party service providers may have access to your personal information as a result of our use of their services. Some of those service providers are located overseas, such as LinkedIn and Microsoft located in the United States of America.  We take reasonable steps to ensure these third parties have appropriate security for your personal information, and where possible, we require that personal information be held on servers located in Australia.

More detailed information about how you can access and request correction of personal information we hold about you, and how you can make a complaint about a breach of privacy, can be found in our privacy policy, available on Mutual Marketplace's website.