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SalaryStrategic Sourcing Manager, Projects
About the role
The Downer Business Services Centre (BSC) provides finance related support to our operating businesses. We do this by focusing on our BSC operating discipline “The BSC Way” to enable improved customer outcomes and value return to the business. We believe that building the best teams, right capability, and structure, and simplifying our services to eliminate complexity will result in the right customer experience. This is a permanent full time role based in either our North Ryde NSW, Melbourne CBD or Milton QLD offices.
The purpose of the Strategic Sourcing Manager is to understand overall customer needs within the project and to develop and manage the procurement strategies to ensure value for money, high levels of service and compliance with procedures and professional best practice. As well as to manage the procurement RFx sourcing activities for the project in connection with Project team and SME's.
The key deliverables of the role include:
- Ensuring procurement goals are achieved across defined project procurement activities.
- Effective internal customer and supplier management, ensuring that established contracts meet business requirements
- Promote and ensure project procurement activities are compliant to Downer Standards
- Drive Cost reductions
- Overall spend controlled and managed under contract
- Number of RFx and contracts managed
- Engineering &/or Commerce Degree preferred
- Preferrable, Post Graduate studies in Procurement, MICPS preferred.
- 5 to 10 years experience as a Procurement Projects/ Contracts / Commercial Role/s
- Experience in managing procurement within major construction projects
- Excellent Communication, presentation and influencing skills
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to manage cross functional teams and stakeholder groups
- Ability to work to long term road maps with numerous projects running concurently.
- Ability to travel to support project needs
- Supportive work environment
- Professional mentor and on the job training
- Personalised career growth
- Access to other Downer internal opportunities
- Suite of benefits including health and wellness initiatives
- Organisation that truly values flexible working options
For more information, please contact . Applications will not be accepted via email.
