Procurement Category Manager (Hobart)

The Procurement Category Manager is a strategic role within our organisation, responsible for developing and executing procurement strategies, managing supplier relationships and stakeholders, and ensuring the timely and cost-effective acquisition of goods and services.

This position requires a strong understanding of procurement best practices, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to build collaborative partnerships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.

The Procurement Category Manager will play a critical role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and overall business success. This position is to be based in either our Head Office, on Hobart’s waterfront, or our new office in Sydney Olympic Park.

What does your work week look like?
- Analysing situations and identifying what and where the value sits
- Forming productive internal and external relationships
- Delivery of end-to-end procurement activities
- Preparing and executing complex commercial negotiations
- Mastering data and crunching numbers to identify spending trends and opportunities
- Contribute to strategy and framework development

**About you**:

- Extensive experience in undertaking procurement activities, ideally across a diverse range of categories
- Able to facilitate meetings, drive agenda and present in a professional manner
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline(s) such as business, supply chain or finance would be well regarded, but not essential
- Ability to build and maintain strong supplier relationships
- Exceptional communication and time management skills

**What's in it for you?**
- Exposure to different locations/managers and opportunities to build relationships on all levels within the company
- A excellent career path exists in our national footprint with steppingstones within the company
- Be part of a global company with expanding interests in seafood
- Birthday Leave
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program for yourself and your immediate family/friends.
- Heavily discounted seafood through our Salmon Shop & Truck

Our people each contribute in different ways, embracing our business values and harnessing our can do
- safely culture with purpose and intent. Our shared values are an essential part of our business culture, they define us. They underpin and guide our commitment, attitude, how we work and the quality of our products. We are passionate, we achieve together, we own it and we can do safely. Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3pul9t