Senior Procurement Officer

Exciting Opportunity to join the Procurement team within Finance and support the Chief Finance Officer.

    What you will be doing

• Applying procurement expertise to deliver required solutions to create value for Government and business.
• Undertaking better procurement practice in the areas of strategy, governance, management, operations and technology.
• Facilitating changes to traditional procurement practices and developing guidance materials to guide better procurement practice methods.
• Evaluating methodology to determine value for money in principles-based procurement to create efficiencies and achieve cost reductions in line with government needs.
• Developing an informed understanding of the housing and broader social services sector requirements of the business to be procured across a variety of dimensions ensuring consistency with agency business goals and policy, to enable you to source procurement solutions.
• Using evidence-based tools to analyse and interpret business data and information such as strategic business plans and mega-category plans to reach sound and consistent conclusions that transparently shape the procurement strategy.
• Identifying incidents that are at risk of compromising probity and audit requirements, planning and delivering market engagement and tendering processes consistent with policy and probity requirements.

    What we are looking for

• Generate and share creative ideas and suggestions for improvement to achieve successful work outcomes with consideration for wider organisational objectives.
• Work flexibly without supervision, make decisions and demonstrate good judgement to achieve and deliver business goals and successful outcomes.
• Build and maintain positive networks and relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders and work collaboratively with them to deliver outcomes.
• Act in accordance with the QPS legislative framework and the Code of Conduct, and model ethical behaviour and consistently applying those ethical standards to self and others.
• Have the ability to evidence specialist knowledge and demonstrate strong skills in the area of procurement

• Formal procurement, purchasing and/or contract management accreditation will be well regarded (i.e., Diploma in Procurement and Contract Management, Queensland Government Procurement training and certification program, CIPS or similar).

    Due to recent machinery of government the department is now called Department of Housing, Local Government, Planning and Public     Works. 

   Applications will remain current for 12 months.