Senior Strategic Buyer Central Functions Coordinator
Australia New Zealand
Lead Procurement. Strengthen Resilience. Shape the Future.
At Allianz Partners, we're looking for an experienced procurement leader to drive strategic sourcing, supplier governance, business resilience, and central functions across Australia and New Zealand.
This is a high-profile leadership opportunity where you'll influence commercial outcomes, strengthen operational capability, and help build a future-ready organisation by leveraging data, innovation, and modern procurement practices.
Working closely with local, regional, and global stakeholders, you'll play a critical role in delivering sustainable value, managing risk, and enhancing supplier performance across a complex and evolving business environment.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Procurement Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing procurement team.
- Drive strategic sourcing initiatives that deliver commercial value, efficiency, and risk reduction.
- Lead complex negotiations, supplier selection processes, and contract governance activities.
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders to align procurement outcomes with organisational priorities.
Supplier Category Management
- Develop and manage a robust network of suppliers across key indirect spend categories.
- Drive supplier performance, innovation, service excellence, and value creation.
- Collaborate with Allianz Partners Global Procurement to implement category strategies and identify enterprise-wide opportunities.
- Utilise market intelligence, data insights, and emerging technologies to support informed sourcing decisions.
Business Resilience Governance
- Lead business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience initiatives.
- Support critical regulatory requirements, including CPS 230 and Modern Slavery obligations.
- Strengthen governance frameworks and third-party risk management practices.
- Partner with stakeholders to continue building resilient and adaptable business operations.
Facilities Workplace Services
- Oversee facilities management, workplace services, and sustainability initiatives across ANZ.
- Deliver programs that enhance employee experience, operational effectiveness, and environmental outcomes.
What We're Looking For
You are a commercially astute leader who combines strong procurement expertise with the ability to influence, innovate, and drive change.
You'll bring:
✔ 8+ years' experience in procurement, supply chain, resilience, facilities, or related disciplines
✔ Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams
✔ Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management capability
✔ Experience operating within large, complex, or multinational organisations
✔ Excellent stakeholder engagement and executive influencing skills
✔ Strong analytical, governance, and project management capability
✔ A continuous improvement mindset with an interest in leveraging data, digital tools, and emerging technologies to enhance decision-making and business outcomes
✔ The ability to navigate complexity and help organisations adapt in a rapidly evolving environment
Why Join Us?
- Lead a diverse and strategic portfolio across Australia and New Zealand.
- Partner with regional and global leaders to influence meaningful outcomes.
- Play a key role in procurement transformation, operational resilience, and sustainability.
- Work within a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.
- Help shape future-ready supplier, procurement, and business capabilities.
- Make a visible impact on the performance and success of our organisation.
Ready to make an impact?
If you're an experienced procurement leader who thrives on strategic influence, stakeholder engagement, operational excellence, and building capability for the future, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape what's next at Allianz Partners.
99950 | Procurement | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Great to have you on board.Let's care for tomorrow.
