Procurement Planning

**Req ID**: 106334
**Department**: Procurement - NZ
**Division**: Enterprise Finance
**Location**: Auckland or Wellington
Ko Mātou - About Us
Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.
Mō te tūranga - About the role
As a Procurement Planning & Compliance Specialist within ANZ’s Procurement function, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that the procurement function is partnering with the business to ensure a forward pipeline of demand and compliance obligations for our third-party engagements & contracts across New Zealand.
The role reports into our Procurement Operations & Excellence Lead - New Zealand.
This role is a key enabler of value realisation and risk mitigation through the delivery of reporting on category performance, cost optimisation and financial modelling. You’ll play a key role in ensuring proactive compliance with regulatory requirements, by maintaining accurate contract tracking and data, reporting, and adherence to governance processes. This role involves planning and prioritising work pipelines, supporting & facilitating governance processes,, and partnering with the Outsourcing & Governance team to deliver both compliance and controls effectiveness.. Your work will help ANZ stay well-governed, risk-aware, and aligned with both local and global procurement standards.
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.
**Role Location**: Auckland or Wellington
**Role Type**: Permanent, Fulltime
Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?
The Procurement Planning & Compliance Specialist is a dynamic and impactful role with a broad range of responsibilities. Some of your day-to-day activities may include the below:
Maintain accurate contract data and lifecycle visibility through proactive tracking and system administration.
Monitor and manage regulatory compliance obligations (including BS11 and CPS230), identifying risks early and supporting resolution & mitigations.
Collaborate with Category & Commercial Managers & Finance to perform category performance reporting and financial analysis to support business decisions.
Support the integrity and performance of procurement systems such as SAP Ariba managing workflow enhancements, testing, and administration for seamless contract execution
Partner with Procurement and Governance teams to ensure contract repository meets our needs.
Provide responsive operational support for contracting activities, risk and cost reporting, and support with the triaging of work within our delivery model.
This position offers flexibility and creativity—you’ll be encouraged to bring your unique perspective and flair to make the role your own.
Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
High commercial acumen and strong analytical capability to assess cost, risk, and business priorities
Proficiency in excel and other reporting platforms.
Strong results orientation with proficiency in data analysis, reporting, and supporting end-to-end procurement lifecycle activities.
Solid understanding of procurement processes, risk management, and compliance disciplines
Experience in workload or pipeline management.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills to influence and collaborate across teams
You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.
He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?
From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.
But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.
We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.
At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori a