Senior Procurement Manager (Construction)

Resources; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Government Services (DGS) in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager (Construction) to lead end-to-end procurement across construction projects. The role collaborates with the Property Portfolio Team to drive effective procurement strategies, ensuring compliance with ministerial directions and public sector requirements.

The position oversees staff wellbeing, workload management and continuous improvements, fostering a high-performance, values-driven team within the

Qualifications

• Significant public sector procurement experience.
• Tertiary qualifications in procurement, commerce, law or related disciplines is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end procurement activities across construction procurement to ensure that optimum procurement outcomes are achieved.
• Lead and inspire a team of professionals, create a positive workplace culture, and develop capability and team performance.
• Develop, maintain and manage Construction Procurement artefacts in line with the DTF Ministerial Directions and instructions for public construction procurement, forms, templates, guidance materials, and processes.
• Provide high quality, consistent and considered advice to the Property Portfolio Team on best practice construction procurement and sourcing, procurement policies and driving efficiencies, savings and Value for Money outcomes for the VPS.
• Develop effective and collaborative relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including senior management, departmental colleagues, and other key staff from government departments, suppliers and industry bodies.
• Support the planning, development and implementation of systems, tools, analytics and reporting to facilitate the delivery of best practice procurement outcomes.
• Preparation of written material, reports and briefs for stakeholders including senior management, the Department’s Executives and relevant Ministers.
• Other reasonable duties as directed by the Director, Commercial and Contract Management from time to time.

Job description

Occupation: Accounting, finance and procurement

Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: 13323

About Us

The Department of Government Services (DGS) wasestablishedon 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government.We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses.We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

The Operations Group

The Operations Group delivers frontline customer services to Victorians and the public service, and maintains the foundational platforms that support efficient, secure and reliable service delivery. The Group operates as a customer-centric shared services business — guided by its leadership principles of customer centric, data informed, curious, digital by nature, performance oriented, frank and fearless, united and adaptable — and is delivering a multi-year transformation to uplift the maturity of shared services across government, as set out in the Operations Group Playbook.

The Finance, Procurement and Contract Management Division

The Division provides the essential tools and services to manage public resources efficiently. It manages the flow of funding from budget bids through to payments to staff and third parties, ensures spending is recorded and reported accurately, and leads the design and delivery of the shared finance operating model across DGS and its partner departments. The Division also holds the department’s commercial, procurement and contract management capability — including the accommodation and property portfolio through which DGS provides workspace to the Victorian public sector.

About the role

Reporting to the Director, Commercial and Contract Management, the Senior Procurement Manager (Construction) is responsible for working in close collaboration with the Property Portfolio Team in developing and implementing effective construction procurement strategies and leading complex procurements to drive effective outcomes.

Coordinating and delivering procurement activities for a diverse range of construction projects and initiatives, the role is also responsible for ensuring compliance with State Ministerial Directions for public construction procurement, optimising expenditure through the use of State mandated construction contracts and working effectively with a number of stakeholders across Victorian government departments and agencies, industry groups and construction services suppliers.

The role is also responsible for the well-being and development of staff and the management of daily workload priorities and ad-hoc projects, identifying continuous improvements for greater efficiency.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the end-to-end procurement activities across construction procurement to ensure that optimum procurement outcomes are achieved.
• Lead and inspire a team of professionals, create a positive workplace culture, and develop capability and team performance.
• Develop, maintain and manage Construction Procurement artefacts in line with the DTF Ministerial Directions and instructions for public construction procurement, forms, templates, guidance materials, and processes.
• Provide high quality, consistent and considered advice to the Property Portfolio Team on best practice construction procurement and sourcing, procurement policies and driving efficiencies, savings and Value for Money outcomes for the VPS.
• Develop effective and collaborative relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including senior management, departmental colleagues, and other key staff from government departments, suppliers and industry bodies.
• Support the planning, development and implementation of systems, tools, analytics and reporting to facilitate the delivery of best practice procurement outcomes.
• Preparation of written material, reports and briefs for stakeholders including senior management, the Department’s Executives and relevant Ministers.
• Other reasonable duties as directed by the Director, Commercial and Contract Management from time to time.

Mandatory requirements

• Significant public sector procurement experience, with proven ability to operate in accordance with delegated authority, consistent with departmental and government policies.
• Tertiary qualifications in procurement, commerce, law or related disciplines is highly desirable.

This is an ongoing role. The position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

For more information and the key selection criteria, please see the Position Description.

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy whichstrongly recommendsall DGS employees be fully vaccinated.

DGS actively promotes diversity,inclusionand an equalopportunityworkplace.All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.

Applications close Thursday 26 November 2026 at 11.59pm