Sourcing Business Partner
On-siteMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Job Summary
Develop large-scale sourcing initiatives, including complex negotiations, contract management, and measurable commercial outcomes. Build and maintain a pipeline of sourcing opportunities to drive cost savings, reduction, or avoidance while strengthening sustainable supplier relationships. Deliver category management, demand management, and RFx documentation to review and influence third-party spend, ensuring alignment with business objectives and risk appetite. Critically evaluate quotations and proposals against time, cost, and quality criteria to determine the best value option. Manage contract expiry reports, Statements of Work, and renewal processes while establishing relationships across Legal, Finance, and delivery functions to mitigate third-party risks. Requires 10+ years in commercial sourcing, category management, and contract law, with deep Source-to-Contract expertise.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years' experience across commercial, management and strategy roles
- strong leadership
- senior stakeholder engagement and influence
- Proven experience delivering large-scale sourcing initiatives
- complex negotiations
- contract management
- measurable commercial benefits
- Broad category management experience spanning areas such as Administration, Technology, Consulting, Professional Services, Insurance, Property & Facilities and Investments
- Deep Source-to-Contract expertise
- solid Procure-to-Pay
- third-party, vendor or supplier management capability
- strong knowledge of contract law
- Strong understanding of Modern Slavery
- CPS230
- CPS234
- key Prudential Standards
- Demonstrated ability to provide rigorous commercial and procurement advice
- identify issues
- analyse improvements
- solve complex problems
- Experience managing complex projects
- competing priorities
- tight timeframes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- ability to build trusted relationships
- handle confidential matters with professionalism
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