It Category Manager

Could this be one of those rare moments to do the best work of your career? 

The Lottery Corporation is Australia’s largest lottery company offering exciting games that deliver life-changing wins to customers and make a meaningful difference in the community.

We’re the team who bring you Australia's favourite lottery games. For more than a century, we’ve been playing our role in making a better future by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community.

Share joy, spark possibilities and join the winning team today!

You will be responsible for end-to-end IT category performance and supplier performance management, including: IT Contingent Labour; Communication; Enterprise Software; Cloud & managed services; IT Hardware and Security. You will operate in accordance with corporate policies and processes, defined governance, regulations and delegations of authority.

This is a 9 month contract role and can be based in Brisbane or Melbourne. We offer flexible working arrangements in a hybrid model. This is a contingent worker role facilitated via Hudson RPO.

What you’ll do

• Define the category hierarchy mapping 
• Develop and prioritise category initiatives
• Define category specific policies and procedures per initiative
• Create transformative category strategies, based on supply market expertise, current and future business strategy & needs, spend and innovation opportunities that identify impactful business value (with a focus on a pipeline of value delivery through effective category deployment) 
• Target 100% of addressable spend under category strategy
• Manage end to end go to market process while ensuring regulatory compliance & managing risks 
• Conduct effective change management with stakeholder’s post implementation to realise value from initiatives 
• Works with the business to define supplier KPIs, scorecard, vendor management models, data sources and collection methods on supplier performance. 
• Support the business to manage relationships with incumbent strategic suppliers including driving supplier innovation and developing joint improvement initiatives

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years relevant category management experience with at least the last 3 years focused on technology specific categories (e.g. IT Contingent Labour; Communication; Enterprise Software; Cloud & managed services; IT Hardware and Security)
• Strong category, sourcing, negotiation and supplier management skills
• Experience in developing, implementing and maintaining category strategies 
• Strong understanding of supplier contracts, negotiating contracts and identifying and mitigating risks
• Sound computer skills in MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word), P2P systems and ERP systems (ideally Oracle)

About The Lottery Corporation

The Lottery Corporation Limited (ASX: TLC) is Australia’s leading lottery company with licences and approvals to operate in each Australian state and territory, except Western Australia.  

Best known for The Lott and Keno, we’re proudly one of the highest-performing lottery businesses in the world.  

For more than a century, we’ve been supporting Australian communities through lottery taxes, donations, and partnerships. We play our role in making a better future by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners, and our community.  

Studies have shown that people from under-represented backgrounds are less likely to apply for roles where they don’t match the job description criteria exactly. If this role is of interest to you and you’re ready to spark possibilities with The Lottery Corporation, but don’t feel that your experience aligns 100%, we would still love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.  

We’re committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment where our people feel included and rewarded. This commitment extends to our recruitment process. We encourage candidates to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for them.  

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past, present and future.

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