Brisbane OR Sydney OR Melbourne
11-12 month secondment
- Great secondment opportunity to utilise your procurement experience in a complex environment
- Plenty of variety, covering three teams within claims – Personal Injury, Fraud & Intelligence, and Recoveries & Settlements
- Collaborative and supportive team environment, close-knit with opportunities to learn
Overview of the role
This is a great opportunity for a procurement professional to deliver procurement category management across Suncorp, covering three teams within claims with a focus on Personal Injury – Personal Injury, Fraud and Intelligence, and Recoveries and Settlements. All three teams are quite different providing plenty of variety and the opportunity to develop your skills within this sought-after area of procurement.
As Procurement Leader you will develop category plans and strategies, subsequent sourcing/negotiation initiatives and ongoing management of the existing contract portfolio.
You will need resilience and strong communication skills with the ability to hold tough conversations; in return you will work within a great team environment providing you with the support you need for this challenging role.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and implement category plans, sourcing strategies and/or negotiation strategies
- Gather appropriate market and industry intelligence about categories in scope
- Manage a category of existing suppliers and contracts including analysis of existing contracts and current spend
- Identify initiatives that derive benefits, through sourcing, demand management and/or contract management opportunities
- Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, inter-dependencies and potential benefits
- Define appropriate supply models for each category of spend
- Align Supplier and Suncorp processes to drive efficiencies for both parties
- Provide representation and relationship management for Procurement for Personal Injury, Fraud and Intelligence, and Recoveries and Settlements services.
What you’ll bring:
- Experienced procurement professional with minimum of 3 years’ experience in procurement and category management. Mandatory
- Experience with claims or Insurance is preferred but not essential.
- Experience with Ariba would be highly regarded
- Experience in a centralised procurement/commercial environment providing services to a broad customer base. Mandatory
- Experience in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results. Mandatory
- Experience in delivering quality outputs within tight timeframes within a standardised project management framework and structured procurement approach. Mandatory
- Cross-functional expertise and stakeholder management with an ability to partner and collaborate with multiple leaders, functions and suppliers.
- Interpersonal skills to lead, build an engaged, service focused and enabled team, consult, negotiate, communicate, influence and sell
- Ability to work with agility in a changing environment
If this opportunity sounds like the challenge you have been looking for, please apply online today. For more information please contact melissa.turkington@suncorp.com.au
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