Description:
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Reporting to our Head of Procurement, you will be responsible for providing commercial acumen and strategic direction across a portfolio of indirect supply categories. You will be responsible for providing specialist advice to business stakeholders in the planning and execution of key procurement initiatives, with a focus on achieving high quality, fit for purpose sourcing outcomes that drive value for money for CPA Australia. This role will cover our corporate services and marketing portfolio.
Your Key Duties will include:
- Manage competitive bids and sourcing process, including tenders, RFPs and RFQs, for various internal stakeholders across multiple categories.
- Lead negotiations with vendors, draft contracts, and supply agreements for review by our legal team
- Identify, leverage, and create strategic cost savings and efficiency gains.
- Maintain a detailed knowledge of category markets, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure strategic plans are in line with current market expectations.
- Collaborate with our corporate services and marketing teams on category strategies to deliver the best outcomes for the business.
- Monitor and advise vendors continuing performance against contract obligations. Also Resolving commercial and operational issues and disputes if needed
- Negotiation, drafting, implementation and continuous monitoring of contracts for key strategic suppliers.
- Work with operational managers in successfully transitioning suppliers to ensure contractual value is realised.
- Review contracts and supplier agreements, recommending improvements to provisions to mitigate potential liabilities and risks.
- Ensure contracts sufficiently adhere to legal obligations around security, privacy, and data storage requirements.
- Build strong relationships with Internal and External stakeholders.
About you:
- Significant experience in a similar rolewho prides themselves in building exceptional relationships with key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in all aspects of Procurement from market engagement to execution.
- Strong time management and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail
- You enjoy working across a diverse portfolio and have experience in a wide range of categories.
- Proven in strategic sourcing, you understand the need for compliance with quality standards, clear project plans and can balance competing priorities
- Ideally tertiary qualified
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Why we love working here:Â
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- We are a Values led organisation, weâ¯Create opportunity,â¯Pursue excellence,â¯Achieve togetherÂ
- Health and Wellbeing sessions, learning labs, generous reward and recognition program.Â
- The people, you'll work with like-minded and talented colleagues who aspire to be the best.Â
- Our members, they are at the heart of everything that we do.Â
- Hybrid working, spend at least two days a week in the office and choose where you spend the other three.Â
- Busy, fast paced, and we are passionate about what we do.Â
- Paid parental, volunteer, study leave, and the ability to purchase additional leave.Â
- Annual incentive schemeÂ
- Learning & Professional Development opportunitiesÂ
- We are global, so global mindsets are encouraged.Â
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About Us:Â
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CPA Australia is Australiaâs leading professional accounting body and one of the largest in the world. We have more than 173,000 members in over 100 countries and regions. Our core services include education, training, technical support and advocacy. CPA Australia provides thought leadership on local, national and international issues affecting the accounting profession and public interest. We engage with governments, regulators and industries to advocate policies that stimulate sustainable economic growth and have positive business and public outcomes.Â
We are values-based organisation underpinned by theâ¯CPA Australia Way,â¯which is our commitment to each other and a way of working. It is the foundation of our success, experienced and lived by our people, and felt by members.Â
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How do I Apply?
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To learn more about CPA Australia and other opportunities, please visit our Careers page at https://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/about-cpa-australia/work-with-us/careers
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