About the Organisation
Our client is one of Australia's most prestigious and highly respected organisations in its field. With a proud history nurturing its community for over 130 years, it is genuinely renown as one of Sydney's longest established institutes, having built a richly deserved and unsurpassed reputation for excellence and the upholding of traditional values. With a greatly admired ethos that underpins its commitment to academic achievement, extra-curricular development and personal growth through an absolute commitment to pastoral care, this organisation continues to go from strength to strength.
About the Opportunity
This newly created Procurement Manager position reports to the CFO and will lead the greenfield establishment of a purposeful procurement function that will optimise outcomes and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
The Procurement Manager will craft and execute category strategies across all areas of spend and implement controls and processes to develop a framework of procurement best practice. In addition to qualitative considerations and creating value, success will be measured by ensuring competitive pricing agreements and identifying savings that can be reinvested in future initiatives and ongoing purposeful projects.
You will critically evaluate the risk and quality metrics as well as ensuring adherence to social procurement and ethical considerations for suppliers.
The Procurement Manager will also collaborate with key stakeholders to support the roll-out and project management of continuous improvement initiatives that could include new technologies, systems implementation and upgrades.
In short, the Procurement Manager will deliver direct & indirect category spend savings for reinvestment, drives best practice and process improvements, whilst building a robust Risk, Governance & Contract framework in accordance with social procurement considerations and the organisation's values.
About You
The successful candidate will demonstrate a track-record of success and achievement within a hands-on, yet strategic focused, procurement role. You will be adept at working with diverse stakeholders internally and externally and able to positively communicate the benefits to your audience. This role requires a broad range of skills to enable a full source-to-contract methodology across a hugely diverse range of spend categories. Key step processes and capability would include a blend of procurement analysis, supplier negotiation and selection, contract management and award, through to ongoing supplier relationships.
The broad remit will incorporate the need to build capability and robust frameworks to ensure that risk, governance, quality and compliance matters are fully considered. As such, in addition to your commercial lens and competitive sourcing mindset, you will be highly organised and detailed orientated to enable a robust administrative framework and documented methodologies.
In short, this role will suit if you are an outcome driven, procurement business partner who is clearly people orientated, an adept communicator who is also data led. You will be highly organised and able to execute category strategies into practical cost savings whilst ensuring all the documentation and social procurement considerations are compliant as part of a newly established policy and governance framework.
The Benefits
This is a genuinely rare and exciting opportunity to develop a procurement manager role within a greenfield environment. You will be engaged as the subject matter expert and as such, trusted to shape the priorities and be the architect of success.
Located in Sydney Eastern Suburbs, this position will be a hugely fulfilling, purposeful procurement role, where the benefits and savings are used to enhance lives through increased investment opportunities which support personal growth and nurtured success.
- Salary guide is $150,000 + Super
- Subsidised catering; lunch provided
To Apply...
- To submit your application please click on the ' Apply Online' button above and upload your CV.
- Your resume will be reviewed by Christian Bloomfield, Senior Partner at Davidson.
- Any technical issues with submitting your details, please message LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-bloomfield/ or email : Christian.Bloomfield@davidsonwp.com
- Please note due to annual leave, resumes will be reviewed week commencing Monday 20th April and screening discussions for successful applicants scheduled thereafter.
** Please note that you must be hold full work rights for Australia to accept this position. **
