• Largest and most complex supply chain in Australian history
• Australian Citizenship mandatory
• Huge opportunities for long-term career growth

Procurement Specialist – Australian Citizenship Mandatory

If you’re a strategic procurement professional who thrives on complexity, influence, and impact, this is your moment. Join a team where your expertise directly strengthens Australia’s defence future. This is a high‑impact role with visibility across multiple programs and capability areas.

The Opportunity

We’re searching for a Procurement Specialists who can own full‑cycle procurement activities, lead category strategies, and drive commercial outcomes that deliver real value. You’ll partner with internal stakeholders, engage key suppliers, and influence decisions that shape operational success. If you love strategic sourcing, negotiation, supplier management and delivering measurable results – you’ll thrive in this role.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute category strategies that minimise risk and maximise value
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and key suppliers
• Manage contracts, performance, risks, and opportunities
• Drive cost savings, commercial improvements, and procurement best practice

What Success Looks Like

• Contracts delivered on time, on budget and to specification
• Stakeholders receiving goods/services that meet their needs
• Strong supplier performance and proactive risk management
• Clear communication, trusted relationships, and commercial excellence
• A procurement function that operates with discipline, integrity, and innovation

What You Bring

• Tertiary qualifications in commerce, law, supply chain, procurement or similar
• 5+ years’ experience in supply chain or procurement
• Proven ability to deliver cost savings and strategic sourcing outcomes
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation capability
• Expertise in category management, contract law, and risk management
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Must have Australian Citizenship

Why You’ll Love Working for our client

• Work on nationally significant defence programs
• High‑performing, values driven culture
• Opportunities for growth, development, and leadership
• Real influence on commercial outcomes and strategic direction
• Additional 2 weeks leave, flexible working conditions and great workplace culture

If you’re ready to make an impact where it truly matters, let’s connect. You can reach out to Shilpa Sharma at 08 8228 1501.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Sourcing Manager to join a high-performing procurement and category management team within a leading financial services organisation.

In this role you will be responsible for managing competitive sourcing events, supplier negotiations, contract development, and market analysis to support business objectives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading end-to-end sourcing and tender processes including RFIs, RFPs and supplier evaluations
• Developing and executing sourcing strategies aligned to category and business objectives
• Managing commercial negotiations and securing favourable supplier agreements
• Partnering with stakeholders across the business to deliver procurement outcomes
• Conducting supplier and market analysis to identify opportunities, risks, and emerging trends
• Supporting contract development and execution in partnership with legal and procurement teams
• Monitoring market, economic and industry developments that may impact sourcing decisions
• Driving continuous improvement and best-practice procurement processes

Skills and experiene requried:

• Demonstrated experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or commercial management
• Strong negotiation and contract management experience
• Experience managing complex sourcing projects and supplier engagements
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong analytical and commercial acumen
• Experience using data and market insights to support sourcing decisions
• Understanding of procurement governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment

If you’re an experienced sourcing or procurement professional looking to take the next step in your career within a large and complex organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact alistair.barr@talentinternational.com

We are seeking an experienced Service Delivery Manager to lead the operational support and service management function for a large-scale national digital platform program.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on establishing support frameworks, managing live operations, coordinating vendors, and ensuring smooth transition into BAU support. The environment is fast-paced, complex, and highly collaborative, making it ideal for someone who thrives in operational leadership and service delivery roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the operational support and service management framework
• Lead day-to-day production support and service coordination
• Manage incidents, escalations, operational issues and service performance
• Support release readiness, transition, hypercare and BAU handover activities
• Coordinate vendors, suppliers and support teams
• Implement ITIL-aligned processes across incident, problem, request and change management
• Develop operational reporting, metrics and continual improvement initiatives
• Ensure operational readiness and support sustainability as the platform scales

About You

You will bring strong experience leading operational support functions within complex ICT or digital platform environments.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience managing IT operations, service delivery or production support functions
• Strong background in ITIL/service management practices
• Experience with incident, problem, change and release management
• Demonstrated experience transitioning systems into BAU support
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management capability
• Experience working across multi-vendor or enterprise environments
• Ability to balance strategic framework development with hands-on operational leadership

Desirable

• ITIL Foundation certification or higher
• Experience within government, infrastructure or regulated environments
• Exposure to SaaS, hosted applications, digital platforms or spatial/mapping systems
• Experience supporting large transformation or national programs

What’s on Offer

• Initial 6-month contract
• Strong possibility of extension
• High-profile national program
• Collaborative and delivery-focused environment

If you are an experienced Service Delivery Manager looking for your next contract opportunity, Apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com