Procurement Manager

 

Description:

Are you ready for a rewarding challenge in your procurement and commercial career? Swinburne University, striving to create social and economic impact, is looking for a commercially focused and agile procurement professional to lead key procurement projects and category management across the IT portfolio and other areas. Opportunities abound to deliver value, enhance business practices, and implement sustainable procurement outcomes aligned with University strategy.

An exciting opportunity has arises for an experienced procurement professional to deliver across the full procurement lifecycle, from category planning to sourcing strategy, execution, contract management, and relationship management. Utilising your strong communication skills, a key focus will be developing strong internal stakeholder relationships by providing sound commercial advice and identifying innovative solutions to University challenges. Understanding the market, having knowledge of the critical cost and service dependencies, and recognizing key drivers for both internal and external stakeholders ensures that the Procurement team delivers on the University key commercial priorities. A strong interest and/or experience in delivering projects with a sustainability focus would be considered very favorably, as well as recent experience in managing hardware, software and IT-related professional services.

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering procurement projects across IT-related professional services, hardware, strategic software and cloud solutions, technological infrastructure, and services as well as strategic partnership spend categories. Candidates must be commercially focused and confident to challenge the status quo, whilst maintaining a focus on governance and risk.
 

Organization Swinburne University of Technology
Industry Management Jobs
Occupational Category Procurement Manager
Job Location Melbourne,Australia
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Intermediate
Experience 2 Years
Posted at 2023-07-17 5:24 pm
Expires on 2024-12-13