Procurement Operations Manager

Organisation

Airservices is a government owned organisation providing safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible services to the aviation industry.

Each year we manage over four million aircraft movements carrying more than 156 million passengers and provide air navigation services across 11 per cent of the world’s airspace.

Airservices has two major operating centres in Melbourne and Brisbane and a corporate office in Canberra. We operate 29 air traffic towers at international and regional airports and provide aviation rescue firefighting services at 26 Australian airports.

We are committed to continuing to improve our business by providing our customers with services they value and embedding new ways of working and technology investments to further innovate and optimise.

Our Leaders

Leaders at Airservices demonstrate our Leadership Standard in the way they Know, Focus and Value our people every day. Our leaders role model our values of Safe always, Service first, Love what we do, work as one, own it to connect people with their world safely.

An Airservices leader leads inclusively, thinks strategically, collaborates, and communicates with impact to deliver outcomes that support our culture of trust, care, and accountability.

The Role & The Team

• Manage and maintain the procure-to-pay processes to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, as well as managing a team supporting procurement technology and related programs.
• Work collaboratively with the business to support the efficient and effective delivery the procure to pay processes.
• Develop and deliver enhanced capability, through the provision of training, across the organisation on the utilisation of digital procurement platforms.
• Lead the provision of expert first line, functional and technical support, for end users across for procurement to pay and source to manage Ariba system, to supports our business in orders being placed and suppliers being paid in a timely manner.
• Responsible for managing the team supporting purchasing activities and maintaining databases, documenting and communicating evolving policies.
• Responsible for identifying, advocating and driving improvement opportunities across P2P and procurement processes and systems, leveraging analysis and insights from business and leading practices.
• Identify and support improvements to the end-to-end purchasing process, including supplier onboarding, contracting and purchase order management.
• Support business development teams, procurement team, contract manager and legal counsel in ushering contracts through the purchasing workflows
• Maintain an effective working relationship with other Airservices staff to ensure that there is effective coordination of all activities in support of organisational objectives.
• Actively engage in stakeholder management, through effective and regular communication to promote increased engagement.

Please see the link below to view the full Position Description:

PD - Procurement Operations Manager.pdf

The Person

• Experience with SAP Ariba, SAP ECC is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with broader Procurement frameworks and policy within sourcing, contract, and supplier management. Ensuring that these activities meet respective social and environment objectives.
• Demonstrable strength in the delivery of Change, Communications and Learning activities is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated understanding of working within a legislative policy environment, preferably with experience in the education or Public Sector
• Experience in developing high performance teams involving multiple disciplines.
• Sound understanding of budgetary, cost control, performance measurement activities.
• Tertiary qualifications or solid experience in a leadership role in strategic and operational purchasing disciplines.

Airservices Australia is a diverse and inclusive employer that recognises the benefits of having a workforce that reflects the communities in which we work. We encourage applications from diverse groups including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.

Security Clearance

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent resident as an Airservices Background check is required for this role. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Should you require any further information please contact Jane Moloney janemoloney@airservicesaustralia.com

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application online before Applications close 11.55 pm (AEST) Wednesday 6th March 2024