Category Specialist - Sydney, Australia - Sydney Water

Sydney Water

Verified Company

Sydney, Australia

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

Hybrid Working, that includes a Potts Hill office location two days per week

An attractive remuneration package
Permanent opportunity to be a part of a high performing Category Management team
Leverage your procurement experience to contribute to the development of category strategies and leading interesting sourcetocontract activities

At Sydney Water, we're passionate about making a difference to the lives of our customers and communities.

About us

We have a proud heritage and a progressive future, providing world class drinking water and beautiful waterways from the mountains to the sea.

We see the world is changing so we are changing too. Our people and their jobs are as diverse as the communities we serve.

About the role

Sydney Water's Finance & Business Performance Group is continuing to create capability uplifts both within our Procurement team and across the wider organisation which will increase our ability to deliver standardised and simplified process, leverage knowledge and expertise within the organisation, provide deep insights to enable the business to make more informed decisions while providing expertise in specific business areas that create business value.

Reporting into the Portfolio Category Manager, and working closely on a day to day basis with the Category Manager, you will contribute to the development of category strategies, and manage sourcing for the relevant category or business area, according to the overall category strategy as well as specific operational requirements.

Whilst you will be predominantly aligned to the MRO Category working across categories such as (but not limited to):

General MRO
materials, services
Electronic control devices e.g. SCADA systems, PLCs, VSDs
Instrumentation e.g. flow measurement
Repair and maintenance services broad range of services supporting operations

You will also have opportunities to work across the Directs portfolio including projects in Civil and Chemical categories.

Your duties will include:

Assisting with the development, implementation and management of enterprise wide category and contract strategies for a defined portfolio of subcategories.
Drafting and reviewing key market documents before distribution to stakeholders such as evaluation plan, returnable schedules, technical specifications and scopes of service.
Lead, manage and deliver projects including shaping business requirements, market engagement, source to contract activities, negotiations and contract handover.
Ensuring sourcing activities and related data are captured and managed in the required systems, for the purposes of tracking benefits and status of projects.
Analysing all internal and external procurement information to effectively develop supply base strategies for major procurement projects.

About you

This role has a very strong focus on supporting the development and execution of category plans and leading and managing sourcing activities including planning, project management of sourcing process, negotiation planning and execution and overall execution of go-to-market activities.

The role will require someone with strong demonstrated experience.

Source-to-Contract Management

Leading and managing mediumtohigh complexity source to contract activities
Stakeholder engagement and management
Negotiation planning, management, and execution skills
Managing and negotiating commercial aspects of legal contracts
Leading and managing multiple project priorities simultaneously through active prioritisation
Procurement analytics and driving insights from spend data

Category Management Support

Supplier market research and ability to assist Category Managers with meaningful insights on categories through market research activities
Procurement analytics and being able to analyse and extract insights from datasets (such as spend data, market data) and support the category management process
Using MS Excel to extract insights
Using MS PowerPoint to present and communicate insights
You must also be a selfstarter who is selfmotivated and driven to deliver results and manage allocated projects to deliver agreed outcomes

You will have:

Relevant degree qualification (e.g. Finance, Business, Supply Chain) or experience deemed equivalent
Professional Procurement Qualifications such as CIPS/MCIPS is highly is desirable (but not essential)
Ability to analyse internal and external procurement information to effectively develop supply base strategies for major procurement projects
Solid understanding of strategic sourcing, contract development, supplier management and procurement metrics reporting
Proven experience working in category management and/or sourcing management or procurement operations roles in a large complex organisation, preferably in a similar organisation or industry sector
Demonstrated experience in partnering with the business to lead sourcing projects, support commercial negotia