Senior Procurement Manager

• Fast paced, energetic environment with great career prospects
• Perfect for high-performers

Terra Schwartz has an immediate opportunity for a number of procurement professionals to join our expanding procurement practice.
In this role, you will deliver end-to-end procurement activities including:

• Delivering end-to-end procurement services
• Providing commercial and procurement expertise, advice, and assistance to your stakeholders
• Developing go to market documentation (in consultation with your clients)
• Developing work orders and contracts
• Performing contract changes

Key duties include

• Expert procurement advice and support to internal customers
• Provide accurate procurement information and sound advice to all levels of management
• Build and maintain an effective working relationship with internal and external stakeholders
• Highlight issues and provide advice on procurement options and strategies
• Provide support and assistance with procurement planning, analysis, and reporting
• Undertake end-to-end procurement from source to contract management
• Uses appropriate purchasing processes that reflect the complexity of the procurement in accordance with departmental policy and ensure value for money
• Provide input into the procurement activity plan for business areas you manage
• Ensure that procurement policies, procedures and activities comply with the Commonwealth procurement rules and, and other Government legislative requirements
• Ensure all procurement related activities undertaken on behalf of any business unit are in accordance with the Department's Procurement Policy and Probity Guidelines
• Procurement planning and analysis - Procurement management and reporting - Tracking and monitoring
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders both internal and external

To be successful in this role you will have the following skills and competencies;

• Demonstrated experience working within procurement policies and procedures that align to principles of accountability, scalability, probity, and value for money in the Commonwealth government
• Demonstrated experience in procurement-related roles to deliver savings/benefits across an organisation.
• Recognises actual and potential barriers and finds effective ways to deal with them
• Sets clearly defined objectives and priorities and operates accordingly, reviewing and adjusting as required
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems
• Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes for clients

Essential

• Minimum 3+ years experience Procurement / Strategic Sourcing
• Experience working within Defence.
• Australian citizen and current security clearance at a minimum Baseline level.

About Terra Schwartz
100% Australian owned SME
Terra Schwartz is a 100% Australian-owned SME headquartered in Canberra. We work with state & federal government agencies, defence, and other public sector clients across Australia and around the world.
We have a structured, disciplined, and proven framework for advising public sector clients on the delivery of key initiatives and achieving value for money.#J-18808-Ljbffr