Corporate Services Procuement Manager

**Req ID**: 85689
**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
- if you can see it, touch it or use it, or consume it we're typically involved in helping to source it.
As a Procurement Manager in our Procurement Function, you’ll be pivotal in supporting our vision to build meaningful partnerships with the business and our suppliers to create sustainable commercial value, effectively manage risk and make it easy to work with great suppliers. You will do this by serving as a trusted business partner in the Corporate Services spend portfolio, which includes areas such as marketing, media, creative services, consumer data and sponsorship, and direct to consumer. You will ensure the procurement portfolio's strong performance, effective management of end-to-end lifecycles, and strategy development.
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 and Wellington
**Role Type**: Permanent, Full time
Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?
**As a Corporate Services Procurement Manager, you will**:
Partner with the business to develop sourcing and vendor management strategies, to execute upon strategic procurement initiatives
Work with key stakeholders to maximise commercial benefits for ANZ while mitigating risks and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements across the Corporate Services portfolio
Work with the business to develop enhance our partnerships with agencies and suppliers focusing in on effectiveness, and performance, and innovation.
Support with triaging procurement intake of business requests, scoping requirements and desired outcomes to enable execution across our operating model.
Develop & deploy robust category plans & sourcing plans that integrate business and corporate strategy, supported by appropriate digital enablers and category intelligence.
Deliver on initiatives to optimise value delivery for ANZ of targeted goods and services with solutions that meet customer’ and business need through proactive development and execution of appropriate strategies.
Collaborate with Group Procurement Category Managers to develop and implement both centralised global or regionalised category strategies and market activity.
Provide guidance for ongoing management of vendors including spend analysis and SRM.
Provide ongoing commercial advice and delivery of the contracting requirements of assigned contracts/Master Services Agreement.
Support the Contract Owner with advice and support, inclusive of spend analytics, identification of scope creep and off-contract spend, and commercial performance reporting.
Partner with New Zealand Outsourcing and Governance and the Legal team along with business stakeholders to ensure that vendor contracts remain complaint with regulatory and compliance obligations
Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
An understanding of the marketing, media, brand collateral
Previous experience working as a Procurement Category Manager, or experience working on agency side in a commercial role for a Marketing/Creative, Data or Media agency.
A strong understanding of the Corporate Services procurement category
Commercial curiosity and adept ability to problem solve across complex and ambiguous situations
Superior communication skills and ability to engage, negotiate and influence key stakeholders at all levels
A results orientated mindset with an ability to think through problems and offer alternative solutions to improve efficiency
Proven experience building and maintaining business critical relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders and vendors
Sound understanding of risks and appropriate control options across a Corporate Services procurement context
Previous contracting or commercial experience
Ability to act as a trusted business partner who can establish trust quickly, provide sound advice and influence key decision making
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