• Brisbane CBD based
• Full-time permanent opportunity

About the company:

Our client is a global consulting firm renowned for delivering innovative solutions to Fortune 500 companies. With a commitment to excellence, they empower businesses to achieve significant value through strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives.

About the role:

We are seeking a Procurement Sourcing Specialist to provide end-to-end procurement support for high-impact projects. In this role you will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and sourcing strategies.
• Conduct detailed spend analysis and supplier evaluations.
• Manage sourcing projects using advanced procurement platforms.
• Lead supplier negotiations and contract drafting.
• Ensure compliance with sourcing processes and deliverables.

What’s in it for you?

• Make an Impact at the Top Level: work directly with large companies to deliver end-to-end procurement solutions that drive real business value- optimise cost, quality, and supplier performance.
• Accelerate Your Career Growth: sain exposure to all aspects of strategic sourcing, negotiations, and contract management while mastering project management skills and deepening your industry and category expertise.
• Collaborate Across Borders: soin a high-performing, cross-functional global team where you’ll lead complex sourcing projects, build client relationships, and shape procurement strategies in industries like mining and oil & gas.
• Flexible working arrangements: options to work from home available.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in procurement or sourcing.
• 1-2 years’ experience in contracting and negotiations.
• Strong project management and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in procurement software and Excel.
• Experience in industrial spend categories (goods and services) is advantageous.

How to Apply:

If you would like more information about this role, or wish to have a confidential discussion about your career aspirations, please contact Steph Smithers today (07) 3031 4500 // steph.smithers@talentinternational.com OR Emma Hansen (07) 3031 4517 // emma.hansen@talentinternational.com

Talent International is currently recruiting for a Contract Manager to work for the NSW Government based in Sydney. The position is a 9-month contract role with the possibility of being extended and pays between $700 to $900 per day + Super.

8 hours a day / 40 hours a week

Key accountabilities and deliverables of the role

The primary purpose of the role is to lead contract management services within the project controls team from the point of supplier onboarding (following procurement) through to supplier offboarding. This includes receipting of supplier invoices and monthly reports, completion of preliminary assurance, coordinating review and endorsement from contract managers, maintaining of the contract dashboard, coordinating of contractor performance reviews, management of variations, issue resolution and contractor offboarding.

• Liaise with Corporate Procurement to ensure that robust contract management procedures are developed in accordance with NSW Government guidelines and that all nominated controls are effectively implemented across all project suppliers.
• Undertake the day-to-day management of contracts with service providers ensuring that the services procured are consistent with government priorities and client’s strategic directions, deliver high-quality, integrated, customer-oriented services and provide value for money
• Provide accurate, expert and timely advice, information, reports and Briefing Notes to the Contract Managers and Stream Leads on any contractual matters, contractual obligations and/or contractual disputes to highlight any trends, forecasts or risks that require management intervention and/or action and to recommend strategic solutions
• Identify areas of non-compliance, default or sub-optimal performance by suppliers, including taking and/or recommending corrective action to rectify non-compliance, default or sub-optimal performance
• Develop and implement trend analysis and performance indicators on service provision, reliability and quality using analytical methods to inform and provide improvement opportunities
• Identify evidence-based root causes of under-performance, including system failures to support the development of solution strategies
• Maintain the contract management dashboard to provide an accurate understanding of current contract value, spend to date and forecast exhaustion so and ensure early identification of potential service disruption to the project so that suitable actions are taken

Key Challenges of the role:

• Managing time, prioritising issues and completing time-dependent activities within a large-scale project. Building and maintaining strong professional relationships with project performance specialist resources, project teams and the wider client community
• Proactively keep abreast of potential issues, formulate advice and recommendations based on evidence, expertise, options and implications.
• Ensure a continuous improvement philosophy is applied in maintaining and coordinating budget and cost management systems, to ensure a single source of truth for each element, while encouraging innovation and best practice in cost controls.
• Driving strong governance, improvements in supplier performance, value for money, and avoidance of service disruption to the project

Qualifications required:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience

Essential skills and Experience:

• Proven track record in contract management in an integrated project controls team in a complex infrastructure project over the entire project lifecycle and knowledge of all project management disciplines
• Understanding of the contract management, finance, budgeting and reporting expectations of NSW Government
• Demonstrated extensive experience of contract management or equivalent management responsibility in a high-risk environment and understanding of risk management strategies and practice.

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.