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Closing: 05-Jan-2025
Job Summary
Dates
- Opening Date: 06-Dec-2024
- Closing Date: 05-Jan-2025
Location
- Flexible location + hybrid work arrangements
Salary
- An attractive salary package on offer | 17% Superannuation
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of skilled procurement professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
- Provide guidance and support to team members in delivering strategic initiatives, ensuring their growth and development.
- Develop and implement strategic initiatives that align with Deakin’s goals and future needs.
- Provide expert Procurement leadership to support the Senior Director, Procurement, Executive Team and other stakeholders across the University.
- Achieve demonstrated competitive, value add strategic sourcing outcomes, measured through financial cost savings, performance improvements, cost avoidance and sustained business benefit.
- Develop high quality, fit for business sourcing strategies that achieve the maximum contribution from suppliers.
Requirements
- Qualifications and procurement leadership experience commensurate with appointment at level.
- A sound knowledge and understanding of Procurement Strategy and cross category strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain strong and productive relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, partners and customers.
- Highly developed consulting, interpersonal, communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated capacity for analytical and conceptual thought in the diagnosis of problems and in providing innovative, timely, relevant and practical solutions.
- High level project management, research and report writing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to develop collaborative work as part of a wider Procurement team.
Benefits
- A variety of leave options including generous parental leave and the ability to purchase additional leave.
- Flexible working arrangements to help manage your work-life balance.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities to grow your career.
- An inclusive and supportive culture and environment to work in, both online and on campus.
Notes
- Only people with the right to work in Australia may apply for this position.
- The university will be closed 23 December until 2 January 2025 and applications will be reviewed after this date.