About the Role
Our client is seeking a seasoned senior strategic procurement expert to identify opportunities to consolidate procurement activity and drive cost savings. They wish to elevate the group procurement function to an enterprise-wide Strategic Procurement capability, with category-specific strategies, supplier consolidation, demand and specification challenge, and clearer operating model/accountabilities between projects, functions and procurement.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise-wide spend and opportunity analysis
- Development of specific strategies for selected procurement categories
- Design of operating model and governance for a strategic procurement function within the organisation
- Support for the implementation of a transition to a strategic procurement function
Requirements
- Deep expertise in strategic procurement and cost reduction work, probably gained in a senior position at a Big 4 consulting group or equivalent
- Direct hands-on experience in designing and implementing best practice strategic procurement processes within a complex enterprise
- Strong data analytics capability in analysing historical procurement spend to identify opportunities
- Strong written and verbal presentation skills, with ability to develop high quality client presentations
- Strong facilitation skills and experience in leading ideation workshops
- A collaborative team-player with significant advisory and coaching expertise
- Members of ICG (if not already)
- Resumes must be submitted by close of business on the application closing date
Skills
- Strategic procurement
- Cost reduction
- Data analytics
- Presentation skills
- Facilitation skills
- Advisory
- Coaching
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Expert to propose rate based on their preferred model of involvement
