Construction Category Leader — Strategic Procurement

FAQs; Australia; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KFC Australia is seeking a Category Manager – Construction to shape procurement across our development portfolio, lead category strategy, and steer complex sourcing and supplier negotiations. You will partner with Development and Franchisees to turn investment into measurable value, drive cost reductions and ensure smart, scalable decisions across new restaurant builds and remodels.

A day in the life includes owning the category, leading commercial conversations, and building partnerships that

Qualifications

• Significant experience across procurement, category management or strategic sourcing.
• Strong commercial and negotiation capability, including leading complex sourcing activities, tenders and supplier negotiations.
• Experience developing category strategies and delivering measurable commercial outcomes.
• Strong supplier and contract management capability, with a focus on performance and continuous improvement.
• Commercial and analytical thinking, with the confidence to challenge cost, specifications and existing ways of working.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across complex internal and external relationships.
• Experience leading people, projects or significant workstreams.
• Experience in construction, property, development, facilities or capital projects would be highly regarded, as would exposure to franchise or multi-site environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the category – develop and deliver procurement strategies across construction, fit-out, professional services and development-related categories.
• Lead the commercial conversation – manage complex sourcing, tenders and negotiations, bringing commercial rigour and market insight to supplier decisions.
• Make our investment go further – identify opportunities to leverage network scale, challenge costs and reduce construction capital expenditure.
• Influence decisions earlier – bring procurement and market insight into design, specification and project decisions to unlock greater value.
• Build partnerships that perform – strengthen supplier relationships and drive performance, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Turn opportunity into outcomes – maintain visibility of procurement initiatives and help deliver and validate measurable commercial benefits.
• Connect the dots – partner across Development, Finance, Supply Chain, Franchisees and suppliers to bring category strategies and commercial initiatives to life.

Skills

Procurement

Category management

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Job description

KFC Australia is seeking a Category Manager – Construction to shape procurement across our development portfolio, lead category strategy, and steer complex sourcing and supplier negotiations. You will partner with Development and Franchisees to turn investment into measurable value, drive cost reductions and ensure smart, scalable decisions across new restaurant builds and remodels.

A day in the life includes owning the category, leading commercial conversations, and building partnerships that