Location: Parramatta
Employment type: Ongoing Full time
Salary: Clerk Grade 11/12 ($149,739 - $173,174 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
Your role
The Category Manager provides leadership and direction in the categories under management, including supply market management and development, strategic planning and execution, and contract and risk management activities, to meet business needs.
What You'll Do
As part of the Strategic Procurement team, you will be responsible for developing and executing category plans and sourcing strategies to deliver value for money and meet stakeholder needs. It involves managing a wide range of commercial, contractual, operational, and supply chain risks, leading complex negotiations, and providing expert procurement advice to stakeholders. The position also focuses on driving innovation, enhancing stakeholder engagement, optimising supplier performance, and leading a category management team and cross‐functional groups to ensure consistent, high‐performing procurement outcomes.
What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate must bring extensive procurement experience, with a proven track record of developing and leading complex category strategies, managing high‐value and high‐risk supply arrangements, and delivering value‐for‐money outcomes. Proven experience leading teams and engaging senior stakeholders to drive consistent, high‐performing procurement outcomes is highly desirable.
What We Offer
* A challenging and rewarding career
* Flexible, autonomous work environment
* Competitive pay and conditions
* Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
* Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs
Inclusion and Diversity
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit. We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
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