Water Corporation

Category Management - Specialist

Water Corporation  •  $136k/yr  •  Onsite  •  3 days ago
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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 recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 08 9420 2000.

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website

Water Corporation

About Water Corporation

We’re the principal supplier of water, wastewater and drainage services in Western Australia to hundreds of thousands of homes, businesses and farms, as well as providing bulk water to farms for irrigation.

Our services, projects and activities span over 2.6 million square kilometres. We have regional offices in Perth, Bunbury, Albany, Karratha, Geraldton, Northam and Kalgoorlie which allow our employees to provide a high level of professional expertise to customers.

We have over 3,500 employees and manage an asset base of over $37 billion in water supply, wastewater, drainage infrastructure and bulk water for irrigation.

We’re owned by the Western Australian Government and are accountable to our sole shareholder, the Minister for Water, for delivery of our services in a commercial manner. Most of our surplus is returned to the government as a dividend to contribute to the development of the state, with the remainder reinvested in capital works.

Water Corporation was created in January 1996, in a restructure of the water industry in Western Australia. The Water Authority in turn had been created in 1985 through a merger of the former Metropolitan Water Authority, which operated in Perth, the state capital, and the water and wastewater operations of the former WA Public Works Department. We’re the seventh successive agency to deal with these services in Perth, Western Australia.

We're evolving...

Living on the world’s driest continent, the biggest challenge we face is reducing the impact of climate change.

It’s never been more important to work collaboratively with government, industry, and the community, to secure our water future and take care of our home state.

To support these efforts, our vision focuses on our operations having the lowest possible environmental impact, are safe for all, and are delivered at the lowest total cost.

Industry
Energy & Utilities
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Leederville, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
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