Strategic Sourcing Portfolio Manager

Description:

This is a high profile employer with an excellent reputation in Australia and overseas. It is renown for its ongoing commitment to innovation, investment and continuous improvement initiatives. Its service offering is externally rated as one of the best-in-class models of excellence and it aspires to continue its transformative agenda that drives the discovery of ideas and enriched experiences for employees and customers alike. Consistently rated as an exemplary employer of choice.

As Strategic Sourcing Portfolio Manager you will have a broad array of procurement initiatives to lead whilst looking after interesting, diverse and varied categories of spend. This position will empower you to develop and deliver best practice initiatives working with key stakeholders at a senior and executive level. The requirements of this role are broad and complex and you will be responsible for the strategic sourcing and category management strategies to deliver optimal commercial outcomes, whilst looking after high value Scientific Research, Medical Equipment and world-class Engineering related categories.
Success in this position will be achieved by executing sourcing and demand strategies combined with commercial negotiations from a global supply base whilst ensuring compliance with supplier governance and management frameworks.
In short, this is an incredibly interesting product range and spend portfolio and a unique role. This is a rare opportunity to develop such a varied remit and deliver excellence measured by quality, risk, ethics, value and social environmental responsibilities.
You will be a subject matter expert in procurement with a track-record of success at delivering positive outcomes. Your curious mindset and keenness to achieve optimised outcomes on behalf of your stakeholders will be apparent. You will be adept at drafting and executing sourcing strategies for a range of commodities and high value items with incredible technical specifications and capability requirements whilst dealing with a global supply base. You will be supporting a diverse range of stakeholders and will generate credibility by demonstrating a strong grasp of commercially-minded procurement principles and the ability to communicate detailed sourcing initiatives, succinctly and clearly to a non-procurement audience. Your decisions will be founded on detailed analytics and insights and your strategic recommendations will be underpinned by objective reporting and evaluation.
In short, your approachable and calm demeanour will combine with a crisp, critical reasoning to ensure thought through and intelligent solutions are detailed and commercially optimised outcomes are secured.
Applicants with a background in sourcing hospital equipment and consumables, laboratory and research equipment, complex technologies, R&D, scanning and imagery, astronomy or analogous would be highly regarded.

• Join a world-class organisation and develop your career in a rewarding and respectful environment.
• Extremely generous salary package, commensurate with experience.