Location: Sydney CBD
Work Type: Contract (3 months with potential 3-month extension and potential permanency)
Hours: 40 hours per week
Onsite Requirement: Full-time onsite
An opportunity exists for an experienced Procurement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing and commercial activities across third-party logistics (3PL) warehousing and fulfilment services for a leading organisation operating in the supply chain and logistics sector.
This role is ideal for a procurement professional who thrives in end-to-end sourcing projects, commercial negotiations, supplier engagement, and complex stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities
Sourcing & Tender Management
- Lead end-to-end sourcing activities including RFI, RFP and RFQ processes.
- Manage supplier evaluation, scoring, due diligence and recommendation activities.
- Build sourcing project plans and manage delivery against key milestones.
- Conduct commercial modelling, landed cost analysis and scenario comparisons.
- Develop business cases and sourcing recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Lead negotiations with 3PL providers across pricing, service agreements and KPI frameworks.
- Develop negotiation strategies aligned to procurement objectives.
- Partner with Legal teams to finalise contract execution.
- Identify supplier risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Manage supplier engagement activities including briefings, Q&A processes, site visits and negotiations.
- Partner with Operations, Finance and Legal teams throughout sourcing projects.
- Support onboarding and mobilisation of awarded suppliers.
- Assist with supplier governance and performance review activities.
- Maintain RFx documentation, evaluation records and award recommendations.
- Ensure sourcing activities meet procurement governance requirements.
- Contribute market intelligence and supplier insights to support category strategies.
To be successful, you will demonstrate:
- Procurement and strategic sourcing experience.
- Experience managing competitive tender processes.
- Strong commercial analysis and negotiation capability.
- Experience negotiating supplier contracts and service agreements.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across multiple business functions.
- Experience working with logistics, warehousing, supply chain or 3PL categories.
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
- Opportunity to work on a high-profile procurement project.
- Exposure to strategic logistics and supply chain initiatives.
- Potential contract extension and long-term career opportunities.
- Sydney CBD location.
At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.
You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.
