Category Specialist

apartmentMichael Page placeMcmahons Point calendar_month8/3/25

About Our Client

A leading procurement and supply chain solutions provider specializing in the foodservice and hospitality industries. This organization partners with a wide range of businesses, including restaurants, hotels, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions, to deliver cost-effective purchasing solutions.

By leveraging strong supplier relationships and data-driven insights, they optimize procurement strategies, ensuring quality, efficiency, and cost savings for their clients.

Job Description

The Category Specialist main duties are the following:

Manage and conduct sourcing activities (RF-x) across categories
Ensure procurement activities include, promote, and support our global ESG focus including social and sustainable procurement objectives
Pricing management
Supplier issues management
Market watch updates
Customer updates - market intel
Contract execution and delivery
Supplier business review support
System reporting & data maintenance - Price files, pipeline
System admin and data accuracy assurance
Reporting
Supplier compliance
Support supplier onboarding - SCQ's, SSR's, TPIDD, SRA's
Building interdepartmental relationships
Support Accounts payable issues
Bid Support
SKU & supplier optimisation
Support Product recalls
Support Out Of Stocks (OOS)
Assured supply

The Successful Applicant

The Category Procurement Officer will have the following required skills:

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

***Sourcing experience** (sourcing and evaluation, sourcing strategies, etc)
***Contracting experience*** (contract drafting, etc)
Client & supplier management
Basic Negotiation skills
2 years of experience in a contract/ procurement role.
Proactive, analytic, excellent interpersonal skills
Advanced excel skills - index match, VLOOKUP, pivot tables, basic arithmetic, Sum of, percentages differences

DESIRED SKILLS:

Previous experience in FMCG or Professional services(travel, printers, agency, IT etc.)
Previous experience as Contract administrator, category procurement officer, project officer, procurement specialist
End to end procurement framework

What's on Offer

Flexible onsite/remote schedule, based in North Sydney, McMahons Point
Bonus

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