Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
- 40 hour working week within a flexible WFH model.
- Opportunity to work from our many offices across Chatswood and St Leonards.
- Attractive salary, +11% super and annual leave loading.
- Drive digital transformation within Australia’s largest public health system.
- Develop, lead, and execute category plans, strategies, and frameworks, including market approaches, procurement analysis, supplier development, contract management, performance reporting and evaluation, to optimise value for money outcomes and meet stakeholder needs and expectations.
- Assess supply markets and supply arrangements by analysing market trends, dynamics, and opportunities, to inform market strategies and procurement decisions and ensure procurement arrangements meet business needs.
- Provide expert advice to key stakeholders on all aspects of procurement and the procurement category, to encourage innovative practices and support delivery of business and policy directions.
- Establish and maintain value-based stakeholder and strategic supplier relationships to ensure that category strategies meet business needs, enhance stakeholder engagement, and both challenge and motivate providers to optimise service outcomes.
- Lead negotiations on high impact, complex supply arrangements and manage contracts to deliver optimal category outcomes.
- Provide leadership, direction and effective management of the category management team and cross-functional working groups to achieve a high-level of performance, integration, and consistency.
- Establish performance standards and evaluation processes to assess and report on procurement activity in terms of progress, outcomes, customer satisfaction, and value for money including costs.
- Maintain in depth knowledge of category market and vendor trends and dynamics to develop strategies to maximise the organisation’s influence in the market to deliver organisational and government objectives.
- Extensive experience and a record of achievement in procurement and category management in a large-scale complex ICT Infrastructure and Telco service environment, including relevant qualifications or equivalent. This includes expert knowledge and demonstrates experience in strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, and contract management.
- Superior analytical skills including the ability to analyse and interpret complex information from numerous sources, prepare and present analysis and reports, deal with challenges creatively and achieve business focused solutions.
- Superior organisational skills and experience working in a high volume and demanding professional environment with a capacity to prioritise, multi-task, achieve business goals, perform, and always work with a customer focused approach. This includes proven capacity to contribute to and promote strategic initiatives, plan, and manage change.
- Interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills required to engage and influence key stakeholders' customers and suppliers to influence and achieve optimal business outcomes.
- Skills to lead and develop the capability of a team, coach and advise managers, whilst always fostering a performance based and customer focused work culture.
- Capacity to contribute to and promote strategic initiatives, including the capability to plan, manage change, improve performance and project manage.
- Flexible work options
- Skills and leadership development training programs
- Allocated day off per month
- Salary Packaging
- Health and wellbeing programs
- What is one of the most complex strategic projects you have delivered as a part of procurement and category management for ICT Infrastructure and Telco services in a large-scale environment? Describe what you delivered and why it was important to your organisation.
- This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
- To be eligible for this role, you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).