Senior Procurement Officer

Date Posted:

2025-11-04

Country:

Australia

Location:

AUSSA121: Mawson Lakes SA, 1-11 Technology Drive, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

• Support Australia’s defence mission
• Excellent opportunity for an experienced professional
• Immediate start available

Right now, we are seeking a bright and energised Senior Procurement Officer.

Join our team of outstanding people with expertise across a wide variety of disciplines and position yourself at the forefront of tomorrow’s capabilities.

In return, we will support you with access to best practice tools, systems and processes while continually investing in your growth by providing tailored learning and development opportunities.

Start your mission in a career filled with extraordinary opportunities for learning, mentoring and professional development. We offer flexible work and career growth backed by global expertise and a supportive culture.

This is your opportunity to join a fast-moving company that works on interesting and unique projects to support Australia’s defence mission and contribute to the critical outcomes of the Australian Defence Force.

This is a key role in our procurement team requiring a person who is proactive with a can-do attitude and will be responsible for performing and managing procurement and purchasing activities across the organisation.

You are always looking to find solutions to the daily challenges. You will have the opportunity to take ownership of the role where your strong communication and organizational skills will shine in this role.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to clearly define, validate and refine the scope of supply, procurement requirements ensuring that they align with business objectives, technical standards and contractual obligations.
• Research and analyse market to make informed decisions about purchasing. 
• Manage procurement from Purchase requests through to delivery, ensure delivery of supply to the required schedule, scope and quality.
• Manage compliance and ensure all required approvals are in place prior to purchase order release.
• Support internal stakeholders with day-to-day system assistance on the company ERP platform, ensuring smooth operations and effective system use.
• Engage the appropriate delegated staff to address conflicts / risks with commercial terms and supplier conditions that vary from standard.
• Ensure all purchasing activities adhere to company policies, procedures, and any relevant procurement laws
• Release purchase orders, ensuring they are complete and accurate prior to release, including clear definition of requirements, cost, schedule and quality.
• Experience communicating with parties within and outside of own team and work area.
• Ability to draw on prior experience to analyse and solve difficult to complex problems that are general in nature and may require understanding a broad set of issues across other work areas.
• Broad understanding of freight & Distribution requirements, including INCO terms
• Ability to set and achieve day-to-day objectives for own area of responsibility to meet the objectives or goals of projects and work

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Equivalent experience to, or a Diploma in Supply Chain (Procurement, Material Logistics), Contracting, Business, Commerce, Law, or Finance, or relevant technical background.
• Minimum of 5-7 years prior relevant experience required.
• Requires advanced knowledge of supply chain (procurement, material logistics), contracting, business, commerce, law or finance work area.
• Requires practical knowledge of projects, programs, or systems relevant to the business with the ability to make enhancements and leverage knowledge in daily work.
• Operating within or supporting program / project procurement activities.
• Using online procurement and enterprise resource planning systems.
• Demonstrated experience in commercial negotiations.
• Successful candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Baseline Security clearance as needed. Eligibility can be found at http://www.defence.gov.au/agsva

This is your opportunity to join the brightest minds in the nation working for the mission on leading-edge technology to deliver Australia’s most significant

defence capabilities.

If you are looking to contribute to the mission that matters, click apply now or contact us at careers@raytheon.com.au.

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