Metro moves you around Melbourne.
As the city’s metropolitan rail service, Metro operates 226 six carriage trains across 998 kilometres of track, transporting 450,000 customers each day. We aim to encourage the Melbourne community’s vibrant and ever evolving lifestyles, by providing a seamless transport solution to keep individuals connected.
With 15 lines, 222 stations and services seven days a week, Metro can take you wherever you’re headed across the city, whenever you want to go.
The Sourcing and Category Manager – Corporate will play a pivotal role in developing and embedding category management and strategic sourcing to deliver ongoing cost savings and a high level of procurement service delivery.
Reporting to the Head of Sourcing and Category Management, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the way we work and take ownership of enhancing and implementing the procurement category management capability, procedures, frameworks, and policies, that will set the team up for success.
Experience in indirect categories including HR & People Services, Safety, Marketing, Professional services will be an advantage.
In addition, you will work in a progressive and supportive environment that values unique and diverse thinking and promotes career development to help you achieve your aspirations.
About the Role:
As the Sourcing and Category Manager, you will:
- Work with the Finance & Commercial business partners and Divisional General Managers to develop and maintain relationships with key business owners of spend categories
- Develop procurement strategies to manage goods/services consistent with overall company sourcing goals and objectives
- Establish business requirements/ specifications and identify supplier base with input from internal customers and develop effective sourcing strategies
- Constantly monitor supplier market and identify opportunities resulting from new product offerings and/or market shifts (e.g., entry/exit of suppliers, pricing changes)
- Develop RFI’s/RFPs, lead negotiations with suppliers and implement contractual arrangements with selected suppliers
- Identify opportunities to support Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) commitments and build social procurement strategies into the supply chain
What’s on offer?
We offer a range of great benefits, including professional development & health and wellbeing initiatives. Beyond this, here’s why our people say they chose Metro:
- Work for a multi-award-winning rail operator with great career development opportunities
- Be part of an inclusive, diverse and supportive company made up of various backgrounds, cultures, and experiences
- Work-life balance options including flexible working arrangements, 14 weeks paid parental leave, and purchasing up to 4 weeks of additional leave per year.
- All eligible Metro employees receive a free Myki Pass that allows free Public Transport in Victoria
- Access to a wide range of corporate discounts including healthcare, fitness, finance, and more.
About Us:
Our aim is to promote work/life balance, allow members to bring their unique selves to work and be truly focused on a common goal which is to provide a world-class railway service. Furthermore, you will work in a highly supportive team environment that empowers you to make decisions, values your ideas and contributions, and encourages career development.
At Metro we believe that inclusion is the achievement of a work environment, in which all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to our success. We place a significant focus on increasing women in our workforce and have made substantial efforts to increase the number of women in train driving, engineering and senior leadership roles. We also have our commitment to social inclusion employment for people from under-represented groups and those facing barriers to employment.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Extensive experience across Procurement/Supply Chain in a similar role
- Demonstrated category management experience ideally within HR, Safety, People, Marketing, Professional Services or other indirect categories
- Proven ability to identify and deliver total cost reduction and efficiency opportunities through tender development and management, and other procurement events
- A deep understanding of procurement methodologies as applied within a category management framework.
- Strong, demonstrated experience in partnering with line management in gaining significant cost savings through innovative procurement practices.
- Demonstrated internal stakeholder management skills
- Relevant tertiary qualifications within the areas of Business, Finance or similar
- Experience in the transport/rail industry vehicles an advantage but not essential
Metro’s commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture
Metro acknowledges the Victorian Traditional Owners of the land on which our rail network operates, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation.
Metro is committed to fair, equitable and merit-based employment and recruitment practices, and we encourage all interested applicants to apply.
If what you’ve read resonates with your values, experience and career aspiration then we want to hear from you!
Applications close 30/05/2023