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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

As a Senior Category and Contracts Specialist at Western Power, I lead the development and execution of strategic procurement and category management initiatives, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and innovation across key categories. My role involves managing the full contract life cycle, from negotiation to supplier relationship management, delivering significant value to the organization.Key Responsibilities:Develop and implement strategic category management plans, optimizing supplier performance, cost savings, and innovation.Manage end-to-end contract lifecycle, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and alignment with business goals.Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders, driving collaboration and continuous improvement.Negotiate complex contracts, achieving favourable terms, competitive pricing, and sustainable outcomes.Identify and manage procurement risks while ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.Champion sustainability and innovation by implementing responsible sourcing practices and leveraging data analytics for decision-making.By focusing on continuous improvement, supplier excellence, and strategic procurement, I contribute to Western Power’s mission of delivering reliable energy to communities while promoting sustainable growth and innovation.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

-Support Value Chain management to drive a high performance culture across team members and the broader Value Chain Leadership team-Ensure alignment with other regional and global Value Chain teams on category strategies Build trusted relationships with key asset and functional stakeholders-Keep abreast of key external trends both functionally and external market perspective, new innovation and newly emerging risks -Drive collaboration by participating in cross-functional teams to identify and execute opportunities to reduce TCO (i.e. considering not only price but utility, demand, productivity and so on)-Develop and implement sourcing strategies to drive total value chain outcomes related to external spend using best practice tools such as clean sheeting, eAuctions, TCO analysis-Identify opportunities to improve Category -Management and contribute to delivering performance to plans (e.g. contract management, governance, value delivery, pipeline build)-Develop and manage plans to meet Category deliverables and Procurement targets-Maintain operational discipline and governance requirements-Develop implementation and handover plan for contracts, to ensure that value is sustainably captured (which may include defining and tracking success measures)

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Overseeing BID and Tender reviews.PO REQCategory Management Spend Analysis. Vendor selection/coordination and management.Scheduling of contract variations.Being part of a vendor review panel.Risk identification. Budget and forecast reporting.Strategic Procurement.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Reporting to Portfolio Lead, oversee and provide support to the Network &Infrastructure Division of the Public Transport Authority (PTA) on procurement lifecycle activitiesfrom procurement through to contract implementation and management. To grow & supportstakeholder relationships and work closely with selected divisional teams to adequately guide andinfluence commercially palatable procurement and contracting outcomes for PTA.EPCM into major projects like metro-net & morley -Ellenbrook extension.

Australia

▫Reviewing tender documents such as Instruction to Tenders, Scope of work, Tender Drawings,Specifications and Design Reports.▫Preparing Request for Quotation (RFQ) packages for Plant and equipment including STP, Centrifuge,filter press and electrical substations.▫Conduct market survey, compare the technical and economical assets.▫Deal with the suppliers in order to find the best technical and economical proposal to tender.▫Analyse quotes and create Purchase orders using ERP tool (SAP MM)▫Purchasing machinery/Drills for Tunnel Boring machine & high grade pumps for Slurry plant. ▫Maintaining asset registers for vehicle fleets from suppliers all over Australia and Europe.▫Plan supply chain process for Plant machinery to be shipped from Italy and France. ▫Involve supplier and subcontractor’s with assessment forms & tender packages.▫Negotiating term & conditions with suppliers and subcontractors. ▫ liaising with contract management team for documentation of contracts, using the contracts management system (Team Binder)▫ Co-ordinate with forwarders for custom clearance of goods and delivery to site. ▫Liaise with international Suppliers to organise packing for expediting,packing list to forward to local freight forwarders.▫Purchase and Sale of Asset.▫Providing Cost estimation for precast and STP plant ▫Organise tenders for labour hire. ▫Expediting Management. ▫Pricing Comparison for workshop equipment and assets .▫Help internal stake holders with the service and insure the procurement process helps achieve better savings.

Australia

▫ Investigating. Diagnosing and troubleshooting iTunes authorised payments.▫ Implementing standard work procedure and tools to isolate & trouble shoot issues.▫ Manage escalations and expectations for both customers and internal staff.▫ leasing with apple stores around Australia for inventory and payments.▫Manage inventory data sheet for difference product range and assist area manager with inventory count for audit purposes. ▫ Working with apple internal department for emerging issues ▫ At end of every client consult create report and forward to the manager to approve. ▫ Trace customer orders and investigate the cause of delay, create chain of supply for end user.

▫ Managing Company’s confidential information.▫ Preparing Bank reconciliation for the accounts manager.▫ Dealing and responding with client’s queries.▫ Processing of payrolls and looking after sign in sheets of the employees.▫ Representing staff issues to the company’s management ▫ Hourly welfare checks on the team, making sure clients are getting quality service

Perth Area, Australia

▫Monitoring accounts payable and receivables ▫Updating employees pay records (SAP)▫Preparing and budgeting for the month end (SAP)▫Updating Divisional accounts records (SAP) ▫Preparing pay for the staff (SAP)

Master'S Degree, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Accounting And Finance

Associate Member, Accounting