Purchasing Specialist

Advertising Producers Association; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Parental leave (18 weeks)

Wellbeing programs

Career development

Job summary

APA in Brisbane is seeking a Purchasing Specialist to join the ID CD - Commercial Delivery team, delivering timely purchasing, sourcing and supplier management across infrastructure projects.

You will collaborate with project teams to ensure commercial soundness, governance, and audit-ready documentation, while negotiating terms and managing stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, purchasing or sourcing in major projects.
• RFQs, bid evaluations and supplier recommendations.
• Commercial negotiation and terms knowledge.
• Strong organizational skills and deadline management.
• Governance, contracts and purchase orders understanding.
• Excellent stakeholder management across teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage purchasing from approved demand through to purchase order placement, ensuring requirements are clearly defined and compliant.
• Undertake sourcing activities, including RFQs, bid evaluations and supplier recommendations.
• Negotiate commercial terms, pricing and delivery requirements with suppliers.
• Build and maintain effective supplier relationships, monitor performance and resolve issues.
• Coordinate purchasing, expediting and logistics with project teams, suppliers and service providers.
• Maintain accurate purchase orders, sourcing records and ERP data, audit-ready documentation.

Skills

Procurement

Sourcing

RFQ

Negotiation

Supplier management

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia's energy future. We're not doing it alone. We're doing it with our customers and communities as Australia's energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play. We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Purchasing Specialist to join us in our ID CD - Commercial Delivery team on a full time permanent basis. Reporting to the Manager, Purchasing & Expediting, you will play a key role in delivering timely and effective purchasing, sourcing and supplier management support across infrastructure projects, ensuring procurement activities are commercially sound, compliant with APA requirements and aligned to project cost, schedule and quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage purchasing activities from approved demand through to purchase order placement, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, commercially sound and compliant with procurement policies and delegations.
• Undertake sourcing activities, including RFQs, bid evaluations and supplier recommendations, balancing cost, schedule, quality, risk and value for money.
• Negotiate commercial terms, pricing and delivery requirements with suppliers, supporting fit-for-purpose contracting and purchasing outcomes.
• Build and maintain effective supplier relationships, monitor performance and work collaboratively to resolve commercial, delivery and supply issues.
• Coordinate purchasing, expediting and logistics activities with project teams, suppliers and service providers to support required project delivery dates.
• Maintain accurate purchase orders, sourcing records and ERP data, resolve purchasing and invoice issues, and ensure procurement documentation is complete and audit-ready.

Your background

• Experience in procurement, purchasing, sourcing, supply chain or a related commercial environment, ideally supporting major projects, infrastructure or technical categories.
• Demonstrated experience undertaking RFQs, evaluating supplier offers and making commercially sound supplier recommendations.
• Sound commercial and negotiation capability, with the confidence to engage suppliers on pricing, terms, delivery commitments and performance.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple sourcing and purchasing activities, suppliers, priorities and deadlines concurrently.
• Understanding of purchasing and procurement governance, including purchase orders, contracts, delegations, document control and audit requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and attention to detail, with the ability to work collaboratively across project, engineering and commercial teams.

About the Team

The ID Commercial Delivery team exists to enable the successful delivery of APA's Infrastructure Development portfolio by providing high quality commercial, procurement and contracting support throughout the project lifecycle. We work closely with project teams and key stakeholders to deliver fit for purpose commercial solutions, manage commercial risk and achieve strong value for money outcomes.

Working at APA

At APA, we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we'll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

• We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career
• competitive remuneration
• employee benefits
• flexible working arrangements
• wellbeing initiatives
• Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation

We are APA

At APA, we're taking on one of Australia's greatest challenges: the energy transition. We're not doing it alone. We're doing it as Australia's energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.

And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia's energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of secur