Head of Procurement New senior leadership role to deliver strategic category strategy
Our client is seeking a seasoned senior leader to join them as a General Manager - Procurement, reporting to the CFO. This is a rare opportunity for the QLD market, where you will have oversight of a large and varied corporate spend, and assist in establishing new category teams.
Key responsibilities include: Maintaining a high standard of procurement and contracts management across a diverse portfolio, including ICT, services, fleet, governance, and risk. Implementing and maintaining a cohesive workplace culture, fostering and supporting your extended team to deliver commercial outcomes while growing their career. Anticipating and mitigating supply chain risk, securing continuity of supply across your extended supply chain. Leading key commercial negotiations and ensuring true partnership is achieved with your suppliers. Providing a high level of stakeholder engagement with internal customers, and demonstrating superior relationship management and influencing skills with external parties. Performing as a valued member of the senior management leadership team, delivering holistic outcomes across the organisation. Key requirements include: An in-depth level of financial services procurement from any industry such as banking, finance, insurance, or similar, and a broad exposure to APRA reporting requirements. Demonstrated prior leadership of a large team in procurement and supply chain; ability to provide prior examples of succession planning, improved retention, and maintaining a cohesive culture. Tertiary qualifications in supply chain or commerce, and CIPS qualifications or similar industry equivalent. You will be an outcome-focused professional, passionate about delivering a high quality of service to the wider business and excellence in contemporary procurement and supply chain practices. You will be a self-reflective leader, with a growth mindset for yourself and your team. Our client has a demonstrated culture of strong and successful supplier relationship management, and are skilled at ensuring supply chain continuity while demonstrating a commitment to the highest level of ethical standards. This is a unique opportunity to manage a newly established team and drive innovation in a rapidly expanding business.
To find out more about this position, please contact Damien Cronin at Randstad on 0428 799 839 or email (email protected) or apply now.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.
#J-18808-Ljbffr