Our client and role:

Our client based within WA's Public Sector is seeking the skills of multiple experienced Senior Contracts Officer's for an immediate start contract engagement to provide support to a large tendering, procurement, and contracts team.

Key requirements of the role:

Developing and growing stakeholder relationships
Scheduling, tracking, managing and reporting on contracts and procurement activities assigned
Articulating objectives and delivery approaches onto a plan including managing consultation and buy-in processes
Collating and analyse demand and spend trends
Overseeing RFX and tender activities from procurement planning through to negotiation, recommendation and execution
Overseeing contract implementation activities from buying guide and contract management plan development, to kick-off and transitioning
Managing contract administration activities such as variations, extensions, purchase orders, and reporting
Overseesing invoicing compliance from scope, rates and expense validation to artefact validation and receipting
Overseesing contract risk mitigation and dispute resolution requirements
Facilitating commercial contract meetings to review vendor performance and identify and deliver improvement actions

Essential experience required:

Experienced Senior Contract's Officer in technical and engineering type categories such as FM, electrical, signals, fleet, etc.
Ideally a background in WA Government contracts administration.
Team player with positive attitude with good listening and problem solving attributes
Enjoys developing and growing stakeholder relationships and is not afraid of ambiguity
Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
Experience in rail network and asset management would be beneficial but not required
Knowledge of Ellipse ERP would be beneficial but not required
In depth familiarity of the procurement lifecycle e.g. R2P, S2C, Vendor performance management
Understands typical document management requirements of large organisations
Some government organisational experience would be beneficial but not necessary

Interested?

Then please hit apply now, or for a further discussion please contact Alice Tan or James Hardley @ Talent on 0892213300 - please note, due to the urgency of this assignment only locally WA based candidates can be considered at this time.