Category Strategy and Planning Lead

5 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) Full time

Category Strategy and Planning Lead

Category Strategy and Planning Lead

Req ID: Department: Procurement - Asia incl. Group Capability Centre Division: Enterprise Finance Location: Melbourne

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

The Category Strategy and Planning Lead is accountable for overseeing the ongoing development of category management key practice areas and to operationalise our vision across our medium to long term planning horizons. This role will be responsible for governing our supplier, category planning and interlock process, helping our teams generate insights across our value chain and support the teams through change; and will take a proactive role in driving improvement, bring in best practice frameworks and standards to create and sustain value and help the track progress towards our vision for the function.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment, Full-time
Role Location:  Collins Street, Docklands VIC (Hybrid working mode)

What will your day look like?

As a Category Strategy and Planning Lead you will:

Develop and own the Category Management roadmap towards the Procurement Vision and FY27 Strategy

Instill a continuous improvement and agile mindset throughout Category Management to embed a culture of evaluating value delivered and pivoting priorities to ensure alignment with the Bank's strategic imperatives

Support the coordination and prioritization of resources and knowledge assets across all areas of category management to maximise value, promote increased alignment and ensure achievement our functional objectives

Removes obstacles, sets direction and provides a point of escalation for issues that relate to our key practice areas

Evolve category strategy and supplier management frameworks to help coach the category team towards continuous improvement and driving sustainable and measurable value over medium to longer term horizons

Continuously improve our frameworks to enhance value delivery, ESG outcomes and a more vibrant and engaged supplier ecosystem

Develops rapport with the category teams, sponsors and supplier facing business teams to support better SRM and facilitate a community of practice and represents the ‘voice of our suppliers’ into ANZ

Promote utilization of category tools, subscriptions and resources to support more effective business partnering and in providing powerful real time insights to category managers and practice leaders

Collaborate with category leadership to support and enable consistent messaging and engagement channels for strategic and growth suppliers, embed segmentation framework and supplier account plans into category strategies

Track category management performance through value tracking dashboards for cost as well as broader strategic value

Lead strategic annual planning cycle on behalf of category management, driving alignment around baselines and stitching together key delivery roadmap across SRM, ESG and category teams

What will you bring?


To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

Strong experience working in a leading consulting practice firm, tech start-up or consulting like industry (eg. technology/digital strategy, innovation procurement or strategic partnerships)

Knowledge and hands-on experience implementing of the end-to-end supply chain and procurement lifecycle – including category strategy and management, source to contract market activities, negotiation and execution, contractual/deal expertise, performance management and navigating supply chain disruption.

Experience across transformation strategy and execution; and gravitas to influence change agenda for category management at multiple levels of the organisation

Ability to empathetically lead strategic change agenda for procurement organisation

Exceptional communicator and brings tools and methodologies to solve complex and ambiguous problem statement

Act as thought leader to business, our internal teams and suppliers to inspire with latest market trends, insights and innovation

Strong analytical skills, problem solving ability and conceptual thinking; with excellent persuasive written, analytical and verbal skills to craft compelling, data driven narratives

Proactively takes ownership and acts with integrity to deliver required results, empowering others and rolling sleeves up as necessary

Problem Solve within highly complex and ambiguous situations; and understands risks and appropriate control options

Collaborates to drive consistent performance, value, and innovation from key supply partners through well-articulated account plans; and thrives in hypothesis-led environment and ability to framework challenges from a commercial perspective


You’re not expected to have % of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. you'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

Job Posting End Date

16/07/ , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)

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