Director - Procurement and Commercial

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

**Director - Procurement & Commercial**
- **Based at Police National Headquarters, Wellington**:

- **Police Employee**:

- **Permanent, full time**:

- **Nationally Advertised Vacancy**:

- **JR 5017801**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

New Zealand Police delivers services that ensure communities are safe and feel secure, with less crime, road trauma and fewer victims. Police operates 24 hours a day in a complex environment actively preventing crime and crashes. With around 15,000 staff, we work from community-based police stations and large policing hubs, operate on land, sea and in the air, and respond to over 860,000 emergency calls every year.

Underpinning our operations are a broad and complex set of commercial arrangements. We are seeking a Director of Procurement & Commercial who can not only ensure we have robust approach to all aspects of procurement, but can drive creative approaches with the market and our vendors to maximise value.

You will own our procurement strategy and engage with key suppliers and partners to ensure our officers have the resources and services they need to perform effectively. You will lead a team guiding our procurement practices, fostering strategic partnerships, and ensuring compliance with government standards. As the team is lean, building robust relationships with key leaders in the organisation and mentoring them so they can effectively manage commercial contracts will be critical to success.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Develop, enhance, and implement a sustainable Procurement and Commercial Strategy that enables Police’s Outcomes, maximises value for money, and ensures alignment with government rules and expectations.
- Drive delivery of Police’s Procurement and Commercial outcomes whilst building strong internal and external relationships.
- Champion sound procurement practices and enhance Police’s procurement and commercial organisational maturity.
- Engage in cross-system collaboration with the Government Procurement Network, Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency, and other procurement leaders across government to gain and share insight into effective strategies, policies and practices.
- Model the New Zealand Police Values - Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Commitment to Māori and The Treaty, Empathy and Valuing Diversity.

**He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring**

Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- Strong negotiation and demonstrated strategic influencing skills
- Have experience leading the end-to-end procurement function within a large or complex organisation
- Have experience in driving material shifts in value for money with enterprise-wide and high value contracts
- Have experience setting organisational procurement and commercial strategies and policies to enable desired outcomes
- Strong negotiation and strategic influencing skills
- Knowledge of New Zealand procurement policies and practices
- Have a proven ability to enhance leadership and organisational capability, accountability and effectiveness.

**Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements**
- This role is based at Police National Headquarters, Wellington. Some travel may be required.
- Applicants must demonstrate a professional tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline, or ability to demonstrate equivalent relevant business experience. A commercial law qualification is preferrable but not essential.

This role is set at **Strategic Leader level**, this means your key purpose is “to lead the strategy, Our Business, and enable our people to deliver it”.

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**Mo tātou | About us**

New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas.

Your development is highly valued at NZ