Procurement Officer AgChem
Procurement Officer AgChem Apply locations Newport, NSW time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id JR103921
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
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
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 processes 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 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.
For 185 years Elders has been embedded in the fabric of Australian agriculture and played a key role in rural and regional communities by employing local people and servicing local farming families.
We're dedicated to continuing this legacy through our extensive network, and by paving the way toward a bright future for agriculture through our ongoing focus on innovation and sustainability.
In our 185th year, Elders is proudly creating lasting impact on Australia's farming families and communities.
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