Senior Purchasing Officer

Location: Highton, Victoria
Employment Status: Full-Time, Ongoing
Salary Packaging: Not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum, plus further benefits for meals and entertainment up to $2,649 annually.
 

Hey You!

Are you a person who thrives on leading teams, driving change, and delivering value through smart purchasing? 

We’re looking for a Senior Purchasing Officer to lead a team of Purchasing Officers in implementing a centralised purchasing model that benefits the entire organisation. 

You’ll develop and maintain training materials, policies, and systems that make purchasing easy and efficient, while tracking your team's achievements. 

With your strong background in purchasing, you’ll drive policy compliance, supplier management, and best practice processes, while offering excellent customer service to our business. 

If you’re passionate about managing a team and delivering value for money, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Officers that enhances and maintains the Procurement team’s trusted advisor role across the business whilst embedding strong practice and adherence to company policy and governance along the way. 
• Develop and maintain a highly valued and efficient purchasing function that supports genU’s clients, staff and operational needs.
• Provide education, guidance, and support to team members to enable an effective, efficient, commercial, and customer-centric purchasing model.
• Develop the team’s training materials and references to be used across the wider organisation. 
• Develop the team’s capacity and capabilities through identifying and supporting learning and development opportunities that will drive the team towards a centralised purchasing model.
• Identify areas within the business to streamline work functions and deliver cost savings.
• Collaborate with staff from across the business providing high level advice and guidance to build expertise in purchasing, governance and improved practices and outcomes. Drive end-to-end purchasing functionality to achieve the best outcome for staff across the business.
• Build and develop reports in system that allow for live reporting and assist with day-to-day and strategic decision making across the organisations departments and divisions.

About You!

You're a strategic leader with a strong purchasing background, passionate about streamlining systems, driving change, and delivering value through best-practice procurement.

Essential Requirements:

• An experienced Team Leader with a minimum of three years’ experience in a similar or complimentary role
• Experience in an advisory or support position
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitate all stages of the purchasing lifecycle from planning through to monitoring performance.
• Strong commercial acumen and great attention to detail
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check or willingness to obtain.
• Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module or willingness to complete.

Qualification:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in Procurement/Purchasing, Supply Chain, Business, Finance, or complementary discipline.

Desirable:

• CIPS or PASA membership or qualifications

For you!

Here at genU we're a group of passionate, driven people who want everyone's lives to be happier and healthier, especially people with disabilities, the ageing and those experiencing disadvantage. We operate solely for community benefit and invest back into the same communities in which our services are delivered.  

genU welcomes diversity, including diversity of race, culture, spirituality, gender, age, identity, ability, and sexuality. We are committed to providing a welcoming, innovative, safe, empowering and respectful environment for all and living these values each and every day. 

genU staff have access to a range of benefits, including but not limited to the following:

• Investment in You: in addition to a comprehensive induction program & ongoing professional development, genU is committed to providing opportunities for career progression. You will have access to a range of accredited training modules, staff mentoring programs and our internal jobs board. 
• Commitment to Staff Health & Wellbeing: 24/7 access to an innovative, holistic employee assistance program that supports your emotional, mental, financial, and physical health.
• Increase your Take Home Pay: Salary package up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year plus further meals and entertainment benefits.
• Employee Discount Program: Save money with employee discounts and savings at over 450 of Australia's most loved retailers and service providers including Coles, Woolworths & JB HI-FI.
• Study Scholarship: all genU employees are eligible for a 25% scholarship towards undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.
• Employee Referral Program: refer someone to work at genU and receive a generous cash bonus once that person completes their 6-month qualifying period.

genU is committed to providing accessible, inclusive and equitable recruitment processes for all candidates. For further details about the role or if you would like to discuss workplace adjustments during the recruitment process please contact Kelly Marshall at Kelly.Marshall@activ.asn.au

For a copy of the position description outlining further details of the role, please email recruitment@genu.org.au.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so don't wait—apply today!