Your new career opportunity: Sourcing Officer
Use your specialised sourcing and contract expertise to make a difference. Join an innovative commercial team where diversity of thought and experience are valued.
- Permanent role with great career progression opportunities
- Industry-leading benefits including domestic relocation assistance and subsidised health insurance
- Permanent full-time role working a 9-day fortnight
About your role
Reporting to the Supervisor – Sourcing Services, the Sourcing Officer works within a team led by the Superintendent – Contracts and Procurement. This crucial role is responsible for strategically securing QAL’s external services requirements; delivering long-term value, surety of supply, and minimising business risks. The key functions of this exciting opportunity include:
- Effective delivery of the end-to-end sourcing and contracting process for critical services; from internal analysis and tender, to contract award and supplier performance management;
- Developing high quality contracts that drive value and minimise operational and commercial risk;
- Managing the performance of assigned supply categories valued up to $50M per annum;
- Analysis of data, identification of spend insights and trends, as well as setting forward strategies that drive performance and value improvement;
- Working with a wide stakeholder group across the refinery and in the community to ensure the health of long-term supply relationships; and
- Contributing to a culture of inclusion, accountability and continuous improvement
What you will bring
To be successfully considered for this role, you should have:
- A commitment to safety and continuous improvement
- Tertiary qualifications in business, economics, engineering, supply management, or a related field is preferred
- Three plus years of supply management or sourcing experience, demonstrated commercial knowledge and with a specific focus on services and maintenance sourcing experience
- Demonstrated experience negotiating complex supply agreements
- Demonstrated versatility with negotiating and forming various contract styles
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to develop reports and business cases for review by the Board of Directors
- Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a team environment and the ability to form positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- High level of skill in the use of SAP and the Microsoft Office suite is desirable
What’s on offer
We know there are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are important, and work is only one of
these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include:
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- Competitive salary package
- Domestic relocation assistance
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
- Learning and development opportunities to support your desired technical or leadership career path
- Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
Where you will be working
Gladstone is a coastal town in central Queensland with the region home to a population of approximately 64,000. The Gladstone region enjoys well-established education services, entertainment, shopping and medical facilities and is the gateway to the Southern Great Barrier Reef. If you are thinking of making a seaside change, check out what our region has to offer:
https://www.gladstone.qld.gov.au/glad-gladstone
About QAL
Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) is one of the world’s largest alumina refineries, enjoying a global reputation as a leader in the minerals processing industry. QAL is focused on employee engagement, best practice technology, innovative capital solutions, benchmark maintenance and project execution whilst maintaining world class safety, quality and environmental performance.
Creating an inclusive and diverse workforce
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.
At QAL, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
You may not meet all the selection criteria we are looking for, but that doesn’t mean you are not the right fit for QAL. You might have experience outside of these requirements that will make you a great candidate with strengths in areas that we can build on.
If you are looking for a new venture and the chance to work for a company that cares about being Safe, Stable and Sustainable, apply today.