Category Associate, Procurement Solutions
The role of Category Associate is to support Group Procurement to define, manage and implement category strategies and end-to-end activities across the organisation to deliver optimal value for money for internal clients against all non-IT Bank-wide spend (direct and indirect). As part of the Professional Services team you will work collaboratively across the Group Procurement value chain to achieve a high performing culture that effectively consistently delivers holistic procurement solutions to our internal business partners. The role also requires you to support Group Procurement to achieve recognition through the identification and implementation of best practice people initiatives, processes and systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Business Owners to achieve both short and long-term business objectives
- Help identify, develop, and manage strategic business relationships to enable delivery against the Groups strategic priorities
- Work with Category Manager to support the creation, implementation and delivery of optimal category strategies across the business and category requirements
- Work with Category team to proactively manage and understand the business and category requirements: understanding the broad and specific business objectives; understanding the supply market in detail including best practice and technology trends, lead benchmarking efforts; full and comprehensive understanding of risk and appropriate risk mitigation strategies through to developing a contracting approach
- Help team to deliver on agreed targets, benefits and objectives through the implementation of category strategies/plans
- Proactively engaging the business to transform their requirements into end-to-end strategy to drive benefits and savings
- Selecting and executing the sourcing methodology to deliver the optimal outcome, which may be based on complexity and market understanding and may employ one of the following methods to achieve the optimum delivery: Contract Extension; Contract Variation; Single Supplier negotiations; RFI (Request for Information); RFP (Request for Proposal); or RFQ (Request for Quotation)
- Identify metrics, tools and processes to optimise end-to-end process; work collaboratively with team to prioritise and drive implementation
- Help team to ensure savings and benefits realised, as a result of category strategy are clearly defined, agreed and recorded by the business and procurement team
- Ensure supplier transition/implementation is managed efficiently and effectively to ensure set up fulfil and manage to succeed e.g. continuity of supply, ease and robustness of P2P, appropriate system integration, all relevant mandatory bank policy and procedure compliance and customer communications
- Contribute to the development and implementation (and to continuously improve) a best-in-class end-to-end process
- Contribute to the development and implementation of protocols and practices to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of sourcing initiatives
- Interface with business and supplier partners (CRM and SRM)
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Ideally 1-3years experience in Procurement or exposure to the tender process
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- High degree of problem solving and decision-making ability
- Understanding of Procurement process disciplines across the procurement lifecycle of demand management, fulfilment, sourcing and supplier management
- Understanding of e-procurement processes and systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to work well in a team environment and adhere to the highest ethical standards
- Understanding in process improvement
- Ability to apply lateral thinking to issues and to work towards new and innovative solutions to problems/target areas
Advertised:
23 Jul 2013 Aus. Eastern Standard Time
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