3860 Category Management – Specialist
- Thrive as you shape WA’s water future.
- Full time, permanent opportunity based in Leederville.
- Salary: $135,693 plus 12% Super & Benefits.
About the role:
We have a permanent full-time opportunity available in our Leederville Office for a Category Management Specialist. In this role, you will provide specialist Category Management advice and services for the high value, complex and/or strategic procurement categories to ensure Water Corporation consistently maximises the commercial, risk, and safety benefits achieved from the Contracts.
Who are we?
When you join Water Corporation, you play an important role for the people of WA. Our services are essential for life - everyday, millions of Western Australians rely on us to deliver and manage water across our state.
If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution, you’ve come to the right place
Real benefits that matter
- Real flexibility with options to work from home, flexible work hours
- Two well-being days each year to do whatever you need to do to feel good
- Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
- Take advantage of our co-contribution superannuation scheme. Receive a 12% employer contribution and enjoy an additional 2% employer co-contribution when you elect to salary sacrifice 2%.
- Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and ceremonial leave of up to 5 days so you can maintain your cultural connection and wellbeing.
Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.
Responsibilities:
- Conducting research, developing commercial prototypes, analysis of ‘price’ and ‘demand’ levers, and exploiting supply market intelligence to develop commercially advantageous sourcing strategies for approval.
- Developing sourcing strategies through consultation with Contract Owners, key stakeholders, and Team Lead – Category Management to ensure alignment with corporation goals and objectives.
- Maintaining a sound understanding of business process value chains and operational methodologies (within assigned categories) to ensure a credible and commercially translatable knowledge of technical requirements.
- Providing coaching and mentoring in line with category management processes within the team
- Developing negotiation strategies for approval and leading commercial negotiations
- Liaising with Legal for negotiation of legal departures
- Acting as the Corporations representative for all notices, variations, amendments, and disputes to ensure formal communications are managed in accordance with contract terms and conditions so that Water Corporations interests are protected.
About you:
- Demonstrates good knowledge of strategic sourcing and category management
- It would be an advantage if you already hold or are working towards CIPS qualification
- Substantial sourcing and category management experience including success performing supply market research, preparing commercial strategies, taking complex requirements to market, and participating in high value negotiations.
- Demonstrated experience preparing Sourcing Strategies / Procurement Plans, Recommendation for Award, and Board Papers
- Substantial experience in post award contract and supplier performance management for complex commercial arrangements involving large and/or complex arrangements.
- Considerable experience in a large multi-disciplined/geographically dispersed organisation in engineering, mining, infrastructure asset management or utilities.
- Degree qualified in Commerce, Supply Chain, Law, Engineering or related discipline
- Experience or Knowledge in WA Public Sector Procurement
Sound like a match? Apply today
If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your skills and experience as well as your ability to meet the requirements of the role.
Applications close Tuesday 7th April 2026
As part of the recruitment process you will be required to complete Pre-Employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check police clearance and Australian working rights check.
We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date.
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace:
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.
We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment.
Applicants with disability who require adjustments during the recruitment process including an alternative format of the application form, can contact a Recruitment Officer at [email protected] or 08 9420 2000.
To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website
