Senior Associate, Category Management - Asset Management

Description

• Contribute to the delivery of sourcing strategies and implementation plans including but not limited to; spend/vendor reporting & analysis, strategy reporting to functional/divisional stakeholders, establishing procurement pipelines and benefits targets/ tracking, driving supplier performance and achievement of appropriate KPIs/metrics.
• Contribution and on-going support of the implementation of procurement strategic sourcing plans (category lifecycles) focusing on Retail, Office, Build to Rent (Asset Management), Investments and Funds Management as required plus any other Mirvac divisions/ functional areas where requested;
• Contributing to our Responsible Sourcing objectives, focusing on Procurement's key role around Scope 3, social procurement and our modern slavery agenda;
• Spend analysis and benefits tracking
• With the guidance of the Senior Category Manager, develop and apply appropriate engagement strategies to create and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the whole organisation.
• For Asset Management, Investments and Funds Management, with the leadership of Senior Category, partner with business stakeholders to build a prioritised pipeline to optimise value delivered, applying a suitably broad definition of value.
• Support the Senior Category Manager in the delivery of category management plans and procurement activities as part of an enterprise business partnering approach, focusing on group spend categories and corporate/ functional areas.
• Actively contribute to Mirvac's "This Changes Everything" ESG strategy and comply with Mirvac's Responsible Sourcing Policy and supporting Procurement's key roles relating to carbon emissions including Scope 3, social procurement and our modern slavery agenda.
• Preparing and implementing sourcing plans to efficiently procure low risk/ lower value commodity goods and services and proactively managing tail spend.
• For relevant categories, identify strategic vendors and other key external partners for this area of responsibility to build value accretive partnerships and drive innovative solutions.
• Performing sourcing activities including via a formal RFx source to contract process
• Reporting & analysis of addressable category spend identifying options and opportunities to deliver sustainable value;
• Assume accountability for end to end delivery of appropriate procurement projects.
• Execute sourcing activities to deliver the ongoing procurement of low risk/ lower value commodity goods and services including rationalisation of tail spend whilst ensuring business continuity and a diverse supplier base.

Requirements

• Capability and understanding of full end to end procurement delivery, with complementary project skills
• Demonstrate a team-focused, collaborative and accountable attitude, a curious mindset and "can do"/make it happen behaviours aligned to Mirvac's values and Code of Conduct.
• Change management and stakeholder influencing/ relationship management skills
• Tertiary qualifications in a commercial discipline (Supply Chain/Procurement) or similar; property industry/ supply chain / procurement/ ESG experience is desirable but not essential.
• Robust analysis capability to convert data into insights and actions
• A strong sense of accountability and pragmatism to drive results/outcomes underpinned by self awareness and curiosity
• Strong communication capability (written and verbal) to effectively engage stakeholders/ vendors
• Highly desirable - a passion for negotiation and basic understanding around contract law
• Demonstrated understanding of procurement disciplines and processes including:

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance