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- Want to use your procurement expertise to make a real impact on healthcare?
- Full time, ongoing opportunity
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly ADO + 5 Weeks Annual Leave
- Salary Packaging
- Additional Over Award on top of Base Salary available
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Procurement and Supply department
The Procurement and Supply department provides support, guidance and oversight for all Procurement, supply and clinical product selection activities undertaken by Austin Health. The department sits within the Chief Financial Officer directorate, along with Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Business Intelligence Unit, Enterprise Risk and Health Information Services.
About the role
Austin Health is seeking a commercially minded Procurement Specialist to deliver strategic and tactical procurement activities across a diverse range of clinical and non-clinical expenditure categories. Reporting to the Deputy Director Procurement and Supply, you'll work closely with business leaders, stakeholders and suppliers to deliver value, savings, innovation and sustainable outcomes that support patient care.
- Develop and run end-to-end tenders and procurement activities
- Develop and implement procurement category strategies
- Analyse spend, cost drivers and supply markets to identify commercial opportunities
- Build strong supplier relationships and support supplier performance management
- Support contract negotiations and strategic contract lifecycle management
- Lead supplier performance discussions and contribute to supplier management initiatives
- Deliver procurement governance requirements, including reporting, audits and policy and procedure updates
- Ensure compliance with Health Share Victoria (HSV) and Victorian Government procurement requirements
- Partner with stakeholders across one of Victoria's leading health services
About you
You are a commercially minded procurement professional with:
- Experience in strategic procurement, sourcing or category management
- Strong commercial, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills
- The ability to analyse procurement spend, cost drivers and supply markets to identify opportunities
- Good MS Excel, data analysis and systems skills
- Experience managing tenders, supplier relationships and contracts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information succinctly
- Strong project and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- The ability to influence stakeholders and build strong working relationships across a complex organisation
- A proactive, collaborative and innovative approach to problem solving
Desirable
- Experience in end-to-end procurement category management, supplier relationship management or supplier performance management
- Experience developing and delivering category strategies
- Healthcare or public sector procurement experience
- Knowledge of VGPB and HSV procurement frameworks
- Tertiary or postgraduate qualification in Business, Law, Procurement, Supply Chain or a related discipline
- Experience reviewing, drafting or negotiating supplier contracts and pricing agreements
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.
- Meaningful work that supports patient outcomes
- A strategic and highly visible procurement role
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring managers: Nick Rowan, Deputy Director Procurement and Supply at [email protected].
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Sunday 30 August 2026
