Chief Procurement Officer

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Chief Procurement Officer

Organisation/Entity:
Transport For NSW

Job category:
Senior Executive

Job location:

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2020

Job reference number:
94575

Employment type:
Permanent Full-Time

Salary range:
An attractive remuneration package

You're able to get the detail right without losing sight of the bigger picture. You find satisfaction in meaningful work, ensuring major services can operate as planned, on-time and on budget.

If finding secure and complex procurement solutions is your game, we've got the team for you. You're going to help us create safe, secure and seamless operations that result in efficiency for the Transport portfolio and its customers.

Join our Finance, Technology &
Commercial enabling division that provides group finance, investment &
assurance, financial sustainability, PMO &
enablement, group technology, commercial and procurement functions to Transport for NSW. We're building an authentic organisational culture where everyone feels empowered to make a real difference to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

Reporting to the Deputy Secretary Finance, Technology &
Commercial you will be an integral part of our newly established Division Leadership Team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for leading, managing and directing the strategic planning, development and delivery of the Transport for NSW enterprise procurement services and organisation wide sourcing hub. As we are rolling these functions into a centralised team, bringing the team on the journey, and developing, implementingand embedding team culture will play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of these services. You will develop and lead this change journey whilst maintaining the momentum of driving clear, outcomes focused delivery whilst mitigating risks of procurement services.

As you will be leading the development and implementation of Transport's single approach to procurement framework, assurance, governance, compliance and reporting, ensuring organisational risk is managed effectively will play a critical part of your role.

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About You

• You are a significantly experienced professional in procurement, contract management or commercial management looking for an opportunity to apply your experiences to develop, build and deliver a world class procurement services function
• You will have demonstrated experience at a high reliability organisation developing, leading, and driving a procurement and contracts function.
• You bring deep experience in leading a large enterprise wide reform.
• You bring strong experience developing, implementing and embedding cultural change.
• You bring experience in leading and delivering effective, efficient risk mitigation.
• You are an influencer and thought leader in delivering procurement and commercial advice within the organisation and more broadly with other organisations across the sector
• You are experienced in creating, delivering and maintaining clear outcomes focused procurement frameworks across a large scale organisation.
• You will understand the balance of addressing customer requirements whilst adhering to other regulatory, policy, government and operational conditions.
• You have strong experience reporting to Board or equivalent level.
• You are experienced in developing team culture and building, developing and leading high performing teams.
• You embrace a delivery mindset as the portfolio continues to transform.
• You have the ability to articulate complex concepts and put forward compelling arguments and rationales to all levels and types of audiences.
• You bring a customer focused mindset and experience.

Who we are

At Transport, we're passionate about making NSW a better place to live, work and visit. Our vision is to give everyone the freedom to choose how and when they get around, no matter where they live. Right now, we're delivering a $63bn program in the next 4 years - the largest Australia has ever seen - to keep people and goods moving, connect communities and shape the future of our cities, centres and regions. At Transport, we're also committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible workforce, which reflects the community and the customers we serve.

Our organisation - Transport for NSW - is comprised of numerous integrated divisions that focus on achieving community outcomes for the greater good and on putting our customers at the centre and our people at the heart of everything we do.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you'd like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

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