Exciting Start-Up Environment, Leadership Opportunity
- Play a key role in establishing a new infrastructure-focused organisation
- Lead procurement strategy, commercial contracts and supplier relationships
- Opportunity to shape processes, build capability and make a genuine impact
Operating in a start-up environment, this organisation is at an exciting stage of its development, offering the opportunity to help shape procurement processes, establish best practices and build a high-performing function from the ground up.
Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will take ownership of procurement activities across the business, ensuring commercial value, effective supplier relationships and robust contract management.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys building, improving and implementing processes, rather than simply maintaining established systems.
The Role As Procurement Manager, you will provide both strategic and operational leadership across procurement and commercial contracting activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading end-to-end procurement processes, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, tender evaluations and commercial negotiations.
- Managing complex, high-value infrastructure contracts, ensuring strong commercial outcomes and effective risk management.
- Developing and implementing procurement policies, frameworks and processes within a newly established organisation.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with contractors, suppliers and key stakeholders.
- Driving cost efficiencies, value-for-money outcomes and continuous improvement.
- Overseeing supplier performance, contract compliance and commercial risk.
- Leading and developing a small procurement team, building capability as the organisation grows.
You will bring:
- Proven experience managing procurement activities and complex commercial contracts within an infrastructure environment.
- Strong knowledge of tendering, strategic sourcing, contract negotiation and supplier management.
- Experience working with contractors and suppliers across large-scale infrastructure or capital works programmes.
- An understanding of procurement governance, compliance and commercial risk.
You'll have the opportunity to build and shape a procurement function, work across significant infrastructure activities and contribute to essential services supporting communities throughout the Waikato.
If you're an experienced infrastructure procurement professional looking for an opportunity to make your mark in a growing organisation, please contact tom@alexanderjames.co.nz