Supplier Management Specialist

Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?

At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group. 

We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.

We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.

The Role

Reporting in to the Head of Sourcing and Partnerships, the Supplier Management Specialist is a newly created role, responsible for supporting and governing the execution of the MLC Life Insurance Supplier Management framework, for assigned MLCL material supplier relationships to deliver effective commercial management of these relationships.

Working in close collaboration across the team and with other Sourcing Specialists, you will align and support on category strategies and objectives and ensure the upstream sourcing activities look to embed and optimise the elements to ensure successful and smooth Supplier Management post-signing.

You will also be responsible for supporting the Head of Sourcing and Partnerships in the ongoing development and uplift of the MLCL Supplier Management framework, policy, processes, tools, reporting and systems.

About you

An experienced Supplier Management Specialist, you possess a minimum of 3+ years of experience in a similar capacity.

You possess hands-on experience in executing across all aspects of the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, including category strategy and management, source to contract market activities, negotiation and execution, contractual/deal expertise, performance management and risk management processes.

You thrive in a fast-paced environment and is able to support both your internal and external stakeholders to achieve their enterprise goals through supplier organizational capabilities; mitigation of external risks; internal process improvements; and delivery of business outcomes.

Lastly, you possess outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal) that will enable you to influence and drive meaningful decision making.

Bringing our best to life - why join us?

·        We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.

·        We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.

·        We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.

·        We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.

·        We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.

·        We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.