Employment Type: Permanent, full-time
Location: Based from North Richmond office with travel to other working sites
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Contact: Kristy Phelan, Executive Assistant to Michelle Wright, Group CFO via email
Where there's life, there's Mercy.
Where there's care, there's You.
Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?
For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we're on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.
As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.
At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.
To do that, we need you.
Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.
About the opportunity
Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the Group Manager, Procurement and Supply Chain will lead the strategic development and operational execution of Mercy Health's procurement and supply operations to deliver innovative and high quality services to business units.
The role will lead a team of up to 30 FTE (direct and indirect) with an annual value of expenditure of approximately $300m.
What you'll bring
You will be a proven senior leader with demonstrable success within a large, complex, and evolving environment that can evidence their values based leadership and offer an authentic, engaging and agile character.
You will hold experience operating in senior roles providing trusted subject matter expertise to the Executive, Board and business unit leadership teams.
To thrive in this role, you will have:
* Strategic supply chain and procurement leadership experience gained in a commercial environment, with experience in the Health sector considered highly desirable.
* Comprehensive knowledge of supply chain principles and optimisation methodologies and skills.
* Proven ability to negotiate and manage contracts, as well as present procurement strategies and recommendations to all stakeholders.
* Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities.
* Ability to secure and deploy resources effectively and efficiently.
* Highly developed change management capability.
* Knowledge of business and the market place, including an ability to anticipate market change and disruption, to advance organisational goals.
You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:
* A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.
* Degree or Post Graduate studies in Procurement, Supply Chain or a related discipline highly desirable.
Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?
Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.
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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.
We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.