About the Role
x15 is looking for a Procurement Senior Manager to lead procurement governance, commercial strategy, and supplier management across x15 and its ventures. This is an opportunity to shape how ventures engage third parties, optimize commercial value, and manage supplier risk in a fast-moving innovation environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-value and high-risk commercial negotiations
- Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships
- Drive commercial optimisation and cost-saving initiatives
- Partner with Legal on complex contractual arrangements
- Act as SME for procurement, supplier, and third-party policies
- Ensure compliance with Group procurement and payment policies
- Monitor and implement policy and process changes
- Manage procurement-related escalations, exemptions, and exceptions
- Oversee end-to-end procurement processes across ventures
- Support supplier selection, onboarding, and contract management
- Improve procurement processes and ways of working
- Provide delivery and execution expertise to support x15 and its Ventures in prioritising initiatives, managing delivery activities, supporting execution outcomes, and ensuring alignment to strategy and OKRs
- Assist teams to embed effective operational and delivery practices
Requirements
- Extensive experience in procurement, sourcing, commercial negotiation, or supplier management
- Experience operating in complex or regulated environments
- Strong understanding of procurement governance and risk management
- Proven ability to negotiate complex commercial agreements
- Strong supplier relationship management experience
- Ability to balance commercial outcomes with risk and compliance requirements
Skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability
- Strong negotiation and communication skills
- Strategic thinker with strong operational execution capability
- Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- x15 is a venture-scaler, powered by CommBank.
- We build, buy, and invest in startups that will benefit the bank’s 15 million customers and beyond.
- We are navigating the space between corporate and startup worlds.
- Our people open themselves up to new levels of career-defining opportunity.
- We're an employer of technologists, growth, and digital talent, as well as more traditional operations and lending people.
- We harness the collision of careers, ideas and expertise to help build and scale the next generation of digital businesses.
