Procurement Officer

at  Department of Government Services

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Melbourne | CBD
Job type: Full time / Fixed term until 27 June 2025
Organisation: Department of Government Services
Salary: $92,332 - $104,762
Occupation: Procurement
Reference: VG/1798959Q
The Procurement Branch is part of the Government Procurement Group and focuses on supporting the Department and its role in providing corporate procurement services to client Departments (Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) and Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) and several portfolio agencies. The Corporate Procurement team partners with business areas to build skills in procurement, provide advice, devise solutions, and ensure purchasing and contract management activities achieve value for money and are efficient, effective and ethical.

ABOUT US

The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone’s experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Review for endorsement of procurement documentation by Procurement Manager or Procurement Specialist to ensure legislative and policy compliance. Work actively with business areas to develop solutions, documentation and build procurement capability when required.
• Working with influence to build positive relationships with DGS/DTF/DPC/SV business areas and enhance financial awareness and promote best practice procurement.
• Identify aggregated purchasing opportunities for client departments and relevant portfolio agencies based on analytics and spend patterns.
• Review and analyse financial information and prepare regular reports including spend analysis, financial commitments, variance reporting, cost centre audits, purchase order activity.
• Manage business systems to record, monitor, analyse and report on procurement activities within the portfolio. This includes review and analysis of financial information and preparation of regular reports including spend analysis, financial commitments, variance reporting, cost centre audits, purchase order activity.
  For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description.
  This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Procurement Branch is part of the Government Procurement Group and focuses on supporting the Department and its role in providing corporate procurement services to client Departments (Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) and Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) and several portfolio agencies.
The Corporate Procurement team partners with business areas to build skills in procurement, provide advice, devise solutions, and ensure purchasing and contract management activities achieve value for money and are efficient, effective and ethical.

To be considered for the role, you must be able to demonstrate:

• Proven knowledge and experience in commercial end-to-end procurement
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality market analysis reports identifying relevant and realistic opportunities.
• Strong administrative analytical and numerical skills
• Attention to detail and compliance with government procurement process requirements.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships and contribute to the success of a team.
• Willingness to work in a digital-first, paperless office environment.
• Looks beyond the obvious to provide outstanding levels of service.
• Constructively deals with service issues that arise in a timely manner