About the role
As a Senior Category Support Officer, you will provide procurement expertise and high‐quality buying and administrative services across medium to low spend and risk activities. You'll support stakeholders to plan, develop, source and manage goods and services, while contributing valuable insights to category planning and supply market understanding.
You will also play a key role in sourcing, supplier evaluation, contract administration, reporting and continuous improvement across procurement processes.
Your responsibilities for this opportunity
* Deliver efficient procurement outcomes through market research, supplier evaluation, negotiation and purchase order management.
* Provide specialist procurement advice to stakeholders to support informed decision‐making.
* Ensure compliance with procurement policies, procedures and legislation, including risk identification and mitigation.
* Build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs and optimise outcomes.
* Support contract administration, including pricing reviews, variations, performance monitoring and issue resolution.
* Produce accurate procurement documentation, maintain records and conduct reporting and cost analysis.
* Support Category Teams by providing insights, data and administrative support to enable effective category management.
* Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities across procurement processes and systems.
Your success in this role will come from
* Demonstrated procurement experience, including supplier research, evaluation, negotiation, tendering and contracting.
* Strong administrative, system and financial support capability, including experience with ERP or purchasing systems (Ellipse or similar).
* Ability to manage multiple tasks, set priorities and meet tight deadlines.
* Intermediate analytical skills with the ability to create reports and conduct cost analyses.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
* Intermediate MS Excel, Word and Outlook skills.
* Relevant tertiary qualifications or further studies in business, procurement, accounting, computing or similar (desirable).
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