Location: Sydney or Melbourne — with travel to NZ as required
Start: ASAP
Our client, a major food manufacturing organisation, is seeking an experienced Senior Procurement Consultant to lead a significant procurement initiative across ANZ on a 6-month full-time contract. This role is based in Sydney or Melbourne, with travel to New Zealand as required.
This is a hands‐on consulting engagement where your category expertise will be directly applied to validating supplier spend, identifying value creation opportunities, and driving commercial outcomes across priority categories. You will work closely with business stakeholders, procurement teams, and senior leadership — and will be expected to operate independently in a fast‐moving, often ambiguous environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Validate the current supplier spend landscape using accounts payable data, contract data, and up to 3 years of historical spend data across priority categories
* Review and analyse available spend and contract data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and suitability for opportunity identification
* Develop a thorough understanding of existing contracts, previous negotiations, and supplier performance to identify leverage points and improvement opportunities
* Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions with business and procurement stakeholders to surface savings opportunities and align with existing initiatives pipelines
* Assess and prioritise identified opportunities based on complexity, achievability, and potential savings — drawing on market benchmarks and specialist procurement expertise
* Lead direct supplier negotiations and end‐to‐end sourcing processes across relevant categories
Key Requirements
* 10+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain consulting
* Proven category expertise in one or more of the following (in order of preference): CIP chemicals, packaging, ingredients
* Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated ability to lead complex negotiations and deliver tangible savings outcomes
* Experience operating in or with production, manufacturing, or food preparation environments
* Excellent stakeholder engagement skills across both operational and senior leadership levels
* Willingness and ability to travel within Australia and to New Zealand
* Prior consulting experience within a top‐tier or specialist procurement advisory firm
* Exposure to food & beverage, FMCG, or dairy supply chains
* Familiarity with spend analytics tools or procurement platforms
* Experience working on structured procurement transformation or cost reduction programmes
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