Sourcing & Contracts Representative
About the company:
Our client is a A global professional services organisation specialising in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. They partner with leading businesses and governments to drive innovation, optimise performance, and deliver transformative results. Known for their inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture, they empower employees to bring bold ideas to life while upholding values of integrity, stewardship, client value creation, and respect for the individual. Their commitment to diversity, sustainability, and continuous learning fosters an environment where people and innovation thrive together.
About the role:
As the Procurement & Sourcing Specialist you will be responsible in providing full, life cycle procurement support of business-driven projects for Fortune 500 companies.
- Help customers address critical business initiatives and projects with strong project management and procurement support.
- Responsible for supporting stakeholders in defining requirements and sourcing strategies.
- Analyse current spend in details, supplier base, supply pattern and define a granular baseline that will allow accurate savings calculation.
- Be responsible for the whole project execution and meet the time lines, quality and deliverables expected, leverage Accenture Source-to-Contract platform to closely manage the sourcing project.
- Analyse proposal (commercial), liaise with end user(s) to obtain technical and risk evaluations, perform bid analysis and savings identification, coordinate award decision with stakeholder(s), create and submit business case for award approval
- Draft contract, support implementation tasks when required.
- Create necessary business cases or approval documents to seek endorsement and approval from clients.
- Manage purchasing contracts post-execution (commercial elements of the contract only)
What you’ll need to succeed?:
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree
- Extensive experience in a similar role in either the mining, oil, gas or construction sector.
- Strong project management and relationship-building skills
- Exceptional multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple end-to-end project cycles
- Good communication, including some level of technical terminology/ vocabulary specific to the categories to source/procure
- Excellent organisation/time management and process compliance
- Analytical skills, proficiency with Excel
- Contract drafting experience
- Strong knowldge and application of procurement operations
- Experience in Procurement/ sourcing of construction, engineering, CAPEX, maintenance services, technical/ industrial services spend categories
- Ability to travel within Australia (frequency approximately 1 trip every six weeks)
How to apply:
If this sounds like you express your interest and suitability via the ‘Apply Now’ function.
If you would like more information about this role, or wish to have a confidential discussion about your career aspirations, please contact Steph Smithers (07) 3031 4500 or steph.smithers@talentinternational.com // Emma Hansen (07) 3031 4517 or emma.hansen@talentinternational.com today.
We look forward to hearing from you ✨