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Location: Brisbane

Remuneration/Benefit: Negotiable on experience

About the Role: We're thrilled to announce a new opportunity within our rapidly expanding Procurement & Enterprise Services (P&ES) Division. We are seeking a proactive and knowledgeable Category Advisor to support our Enterprise Services and Corporate area. This role is pivotal in enhancing our procurement processes and ensuring operational excellence across our organisation.

As a Category Advisor, you will:

• Support and guide offshore transactional buying team: Provide guidance on Aurizon’s procedures and structure and help the offshore team to escalate issue to the category teams.
• Collaborate with Category Teams: Work regularly with category teams to ensure goods and services information is always accurate.
• Perform analysis: develop KPI and reporting, identify issues, trends to drive process improvement
• Identify Process Improvements: Assist in spotting opportunities for enhancements in procurement processes.
• Lead Training Initiatives: Develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive procurement process and systems training strategy, including the creation of training programs and assessment tools.
• Provide Expert Guidance: Offer training, advice, and support on procurement and purchasing process and systems to team members and stakeholders.
• Evaluate Training Effectiveness: Continuously evaluate training delivery to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Govern Procurement Processes: Manage key procurement controls, analysis, and reporting to deliver effective governance of transactional procurement.
• Implement Purchasing Best Practices: Collaborate with the governance and procurement systems lead to establish and communicate purchasing protocols through SAP.
• Ensure Procedural Adherence: Work with leaders and stakeholders to ensure proper procedures are followed in processing purchase requisitions and orders.
• Update Procurement Channels: Review and update the Goods and Services page and advise on additional SAP contracts. Reflect any changes in purchasing channels, such as Engineering panels.
• Stay Informed on Corporate Changes: Keep updated on corporate changes and processes in P&ES that may impact the Procurement help desk.
• Manage Online Resources: Own and update the Order to Pay and Goods receipt pages in HOWED, as well as the Purchasing Information Centre SharePoint site.
• Conduct Testing and Debugging: Participate in testing and debugging during UAT phases to ensure system integrity.
• Coordinate Team Activities: Lead team meetings to align activities and address any issues.

About You:

To thrive in this role, you should possess:

• 5+ Years of Experience: Demonstrated experience in transactional procurement.
• Procurement Knowledge: High-level understanding of transactional procurement processes.
• Problem solving: Proven track record of analysing data, and implementing processes that enhance operational efficiency.
• Critical thinking: Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions, foresee potential obstacles, and navigate through ambiguity to drive successful project completion.
• Data analysis: Proficient in extracting insights from complex datasets to inform strategic decision-making. 
• Stakeholder Management Skills: Proficient in managing relationships and mentoring staff to foster a collaborative environment.
• Strong Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate with diverse stakeholders.
• SAP Expertise: Solid experience and proficiency with SAP systems.
• Exceptional Time Management: Ability to prioritize tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Leadership Capability: Experience in leading and managing teams, ideally including offshore teams, to enhance performance.

What we offer you:             

At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities. 

Some of our benefits include:

• Development and growth opportunities.
• Access to mentoring and development programs.
• Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
• Parental leave program and super booster.

About Aurizon.

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Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets. 

Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.

At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.

To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers