Procurement Sourcing Specialist

About the job

Our client is seeking a Procurement Sourcing Specialist to manage end-to-end sourcing for strategic, business-critical initiatives. You'll support Fortune 500 projects by driving cost savings, enhancing supplier performance, and overseeing contract and vendor management. This role offers hands-on experience across the full sourcing lifecycle, including negotiations and stakeholder collaboration, ideal for someone eager to grow their project management and category expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

Help our customers address critical business initiatives and projects with strong project management and procurement support.

Responsible for supporting stakeholders in defining requirements (service levels, scope of work, volume forecasts…), opportunity definition and sourcing strategy.

Analyse current spend in details, supplier base, supply pattern and define a granular baseline that will allow accurate savings calculation.

Be responsible for the whole project execution and meet the timelines, quality, and deliverables expected, leverage the Source-to-Contract platform to closely manage the sourcing project.

Perform supplier research and identification, review accuracy of the scope to tender with stakeholder, prepare RFP, engage with tenderers.

Analyse proposal (commercial), liaise with end user(s) to obtain technical and risk evaluations, perform bid analysis and savings identification, coordinate award decision with stakeholder(s), create and submit business case for award approval.

Negotiate with shortlisted vendors to meet client expectations from commercial, technical and legal (departures) perspectives.

Draft contract, support implementation tasks when required.

Create necessary business cases or approval documents to seek endorsement and approval from clients.

Show compliance to the sourcing process defined while offering creative solutions to support sourcing projects and achieve desired results.

Communicate frequently and professionally with customer stakeholders regarding the status of the procurement projects conducted.

Continuously demonstrate value-add and customer service while working with client stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree

Minimum of 3 years of experience in sourcing

Minimum of 1-2 year of experience in contracting/negotiation processes and best practices

Mining or Oil & Gas industry experience (optional)

Preferred Skills:

Strong project management and relationship-building skills

Exceptional multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple end-to-end project cycles

Good communication, including some level of technical terminology/ vocabulary specific to the categories to source/procure

Excellent organization/time management and process compliance

Analytical skills, proficiency with Excel

Contract drafting experience

Attention to details

Adaptable management style to conform to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers

Knowledge of procurement operations

Experience working directly with key stakeholders in business units

Agile and interested in digital and automation of processes

Experience in Procurement/ sourcing of industrial spend categories (goods and services)

Working Rights:

Only candidates based in Australia with full working rights are eligible for this position.