Procurement Manager

at  Vicinity Centres

We’re reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.
We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.
We are Vicinity.
Role purpose
The purpose of the Procurement Manager is to foster key supply partnerships and manage ongoing performance across Vicinity’s strategic supply partners. The Procurement Manager will be responsible for creating long term enterprise value from strategic contracts whilst establishing and maintaining best practice governance as a key business partner.

The Role

• Support the delivery of sustainable practices and key metrics across various categories
• Lead sourcing activities to deliver value creation (& cost avoidance) to the business by creating and analysing documented comparative costs submitted in the RFx process
• Lead strategy development in key categories aligned to ELT goals and business needs
• Establishing pricing and performance standards through contracts with suppliers
• Negotiate commercial terms and execute agreements
• Foster an innovation marketplace for suppliers and drive strong business partnering and supplier connectivity
• Ensure all safety factors and risk contingencies are considered and align to business standards
• Support and drive sustainability objectives throughout the supply chain

What will you bring?
You will be a senior Procurement professional across multiple areas of procurement, operations and service delivery. You will bring demonstrated experience managing top tier vendors including the management of external relationships with both account managers and senior management. A proven track record of implementing strategic procurement initiatives will be highly regarded.

As a Procurement Manager you thrive on collaboration with stakeholders both internal and external, and continuously imagine a better way to create value using your skills, knowledge and procurement expertise. You will have a strong background in influencing a wide variety of stakeholders across organisations coupled with excellent communication skills in order to achieve business outcomes. You will be comfortable in:

• End-to-end category management including strategy development;
• Working autonomously to drive outcomes on high profile business critical spend categories; and
• Leading best in class governance and risk management for your elected categories across facilities management
• Relevant qualifications MCIPS - Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply is desirable.

What will success look like?

We Imagine a Better Way

• You support and deploying robust policies, systems and standards to support overall governance of good procurement practices within Vicinity.
• You champion new ideas, facilitating changes to improve customer outcomes.
• You consistently role model the values and behaviours.
• You are comfortable in challenging the status quo across the organisation to get better outcomes

We Embrace Difference

• You Support Vicinity’s Responsible Sourcing Action Plan which includes increasing compliance to Vicinity’s Supplier Code of Conduct, providing input into Modern Slavery working groups and building company awareness around Supplier Diversity
• You advocate equal opportunity, challenging assumptions to create a diverse workforce.
• You seek out and encourage diverse views to challenge your own thinking
• You understand and show respect for the diversity of the Vicinity community.

We Always Collaborate

• You act as a true business partner with a focus on developing both internal and external relationships to drive strong supplier connectivity
• You engage and communicate with team members across the business, consistently and effectively sharing information.
• You proactively develop a welcoming team environment where team members feel supported and valued.
• You influence and manage key stakeholders to enable better outcome for our customers.

Why Vicinity?

Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes:

• Flexible working options
• Birthday leave & purchased additional leave
• $1,000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible team members
• Internal mentoring program
• Generous Parental Leave

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence. They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.
At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.
Our people and our Employee Advocacy Groups (Gender Balance, Cultural Diversity, Disability & Access and Pride & Allies) actively build community and provide allyship within Vicinity. If you’d like to speak to someone to understand what it’s like firsthand to work here, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team.
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Email:
talent.acquisition@vicinity.com.au
Phone: +61 3 7001 4000 (request to speak to our Talent Acquisition team)
Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level

• Support the delivery of sustainable practices and key metrics across various categories
• Lead sourcing activities to deliver value creation (& cost avoidance) to the business by creating and analysing documented comparative costs submitted in the RFx process
• Lead strategy development in key categories aligned to ELT goals and business needs
• Establishing pricing and performance standards through contracts with suppliers
• Negotiate commercial terms and execute agreements
• Foster an innovation marketplace for suppliers and drive strong business partnering and supplier connectivity
• Ensure all safety factors and risk contingencies are considered and align to business standards
• Support and drive sustainability objectives throughout the supply chai