Procurement Officer AgChem

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Job Title: Procurement Officer AgChem
Location: Newport, NSW, Australia

Company: Elders
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Procurement/Purchasing
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: Competitive
Job Description: Nurture. Grow. Thrive.

Accepting a role with TitanAg, a proud business partner of Elders, means you will be joining a team ready to support and grow your career. Much like the clients and communities we work with, you will experience, passion, dedication and resilience across all parts of our business. With the backing of such an iconic, essential business in the Australian landscape we are confident that you too will be proud to grow your career at TitanAg.

Job Description

We are seeking a Procurement Specialist to join our TitanAg team in Newport, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, on a permanent full-time basis.

As a Procurement Specialist, you will play a key role in managing and optimising the sourcing and procurement of indirect goods across the business. Your expertise in identifying cost-saving opportunities, negotiating contracts, and ensuring compliance with procurement policies will directly contribute to our operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. You will proactively review categories within your portfolio and work with SMEs to enhance total value delivery through the RFx process, scrutiny of current contracts, supplier performance and streamlining internal processes.

Responsibilities

As a Procurement Specialist, you will:

Implement the Source to Contract process and lead supplier negotiations
Use data driven analysis to determine category spend, benchmark analysis to calculate cost savings, identify where cost savings can be made and drive implementation
Engage stakeholders in procurement activities, ensuring that the needs of head office and network are balanced, and the voice of the customer is central to decisions
Manage key supplier relationships against KPIs and SLAs and conduct regular supplier reviews to ensure best practice procurement processes
Maintain a Team Procurement Pipeline, identify how to load level annual workload for themselves and the Team, and lead improvements to reduce peaks
Identify and drive improvements to Procurement and Procure to Pay processes

About you

To be successful with TitanAg, you will have:

Extensive experience in a procurement or commodity management role
Demonstrated experience using category management and spend analysis to identify and drive cost savings
Understanding of total cost drivers, inventory management, KPIs and SLAs
Experience leading Supplier Performance Reviews and routine meetings, using KPIs and SLAs to drive these
Can perform simple cost-benefit analysis and scenario analysis in Excel and apply the outcomes in decision making
Strong stakeholder engagement skills and business acumen
Ability to run tender process and manage contracts and comfortable having difficult conversations

About TitanAg

Servicing rural Australia in manufacturing and the supply of Agricultural Chemicals, Titan AG offers a diverse range of high quality herbicides, fungicides and insecticides at competitive prices.

Titan AG products assist with providing economical alternatives to help farmers with their key pesticides, upsides include yield enhancements and improving yield quality. Titan AG works closely with its key suppliers both domestically and globally to deliver the highest quality crop protection products to rural Australia.

If you are ready to grow your career, please click on 'Apply' today.

For more information, please email Nicolas Shortis at nic@titanag.com.au or visit our careers page.

Please note, applications may be shortlisted as they are received.

At Elders, we strive to create a safe environment where everyone can thrive. We aspire to do this by recognising talent, promoting inclusion and celebrating diversity. No matter how you identify, we encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply for roles at Elders.

We will accept applications from all people with the right to live and work in Australia.

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Job Post Date: 12/20/24