Procurement Manager

We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.
We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.

We are Vicinity.

Role purpose

The purpose of the Procurement Manager is to foster key supply partnerships and manage ongoing performance across Vicinity’s strategic supply partners. The Procurement Manager will be responsible for creating long term enterprise value from strategic contracts whilst establishing and maintaining best practice governance as a key business partner.

• Develop and implement procurement strategies for indirect and facilities management spend categories.
• Lead the sourcing, negotiation, and contracting processes to ensure optimal cost savings and value for money.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify and address procurement needs, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery.
• Manage key supplier relationships, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders to understand their requirements and ensure alignment with procurement strategies and overall company strategy.
• Monitor and report on procurement performance metrics, identifying opportunities for cost reduction and process improvements.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business needs, ensure that procurement policy and guidelines support the needs of the business, and that best practise is delivered.

What will you bring?

You will be a senior Procurement professional across multiple areas of procurement, operations and service delivery.  You will bring demonstrated experience managing top tier vendors including the management of external relationships with both account managers and senior management.  A proven track record of implementing strategic procurement initiatives will be highly regarded.  

As a Procurement Manager you thrive on collaboration with stakeholders both internal and external, and continuously imagine a better way to create value using your skills, knowledge and procurement expertise.  You will have a strong background in influencing a wide variety of stakeholders across organisations coupled with excellent communication skills in order to achieve business outcomes. You will be comfortable in:

• End-to-end category management including strategy development;
• Working autonomously to drive outcomes on high profile business critical spend categories; and
• Leading best in class governance and risk management for your elected categories across facilities management
• Relevant qualifications MCIPS - Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply is desirable.

• You support and deploying robust policies, systems and standards to support overall governance of good procurement practices within Vicinity.
• You champion new ideas, facilitating changes to improve customer outcomes.
• You consistently role model the values and behaviours.
• You are comfortable in challenging the status quo across the organisation to get better outcomes

• You Support Vicinity’s Responsible Sourcing Action Plan which includes increasing compliance to Vicinity’s Supplier Code of Conduct, providing input into Modern Slavery working groups and building company awareness around Supplier Diversity
• You advocate equal opportunity, challenging assumptions to create a diverse workforce.
• You seek out and encourage diverse views to challenge your own thinking
• You understand and show respect for the diversity of the Vicinity community.

• You act as a true business partner with a focus on developing both internal and external relationships to drive strong supplier connectivity
• You engage and communicate with team members across the business, consistently and effectively sharing information.
• You proactively develop a welcoming team environment where team members feel supported and valued.
• You influence and manage key stakeholders to enable better outcome for our customers.

Why Vicinity?

Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes:

• Flexible working options
• $1000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible perm team members
• Internal mentoring program
• Generous Parental Leave for perm team  members

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence.  They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.

At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Our people and our Employee Advocacy Groups (Gender Balance, Cultural Diversity, Disability & Access and Pride & Allies) actively build community and provide allyship within Vicinity. If you’d like to speak to someone to understand what it’s like firsthand to work here, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team.

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