Strategic Sourcing Lead: Capital Projects & Labour

Lime Recruitment; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lime Recruitment seeks a Senior Sourcing Specialist to drive labour strategies for capital projects across Australia and New Zealand. You will forecast demand, shape sourcing strategies, and manage complex supplier engagements to support project delivery.

You will lead dashboards and reports on forecast vs. actual demand, vacancies, and mobilisation risks, ensuring governance and compliance in all sourcing activities. Hybrid Brisbane-based role with broad collaboration across portfolios.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement and contracts across the end-to-end lifecycle, preferably supporting capital projects or major maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to forecast labour demand, plan workforce needs, and manage contractor resources.
• Ability to consolidate multiple project demand signals into clear forecasts, dashboards and reporting.
• Experience leading sourcing initiatives across labour, professional services, construction, maintenance or project-support categories.
• Strong commercial and analytical capability with data on workforce, suppliers, spend and performance.
• Excellent influencing, stakeholder engagement, negotiation and presentation skills across project and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with capital project leaders to understand pipelines, schedules, capability requirements and changing labour demand.
• Develop and maintain short-, medium-, and long-range labour forecasts across the capital portfolio, including role, trade, location, timing and volume requirements.
• Consolidate project demand into an integrated workforce view to identify peaks, constraints, duplication, mobilisation risks and opportunities to sequence requirements.
• Translate labour forecasts into fit-for-purpose sourcing, contracting, and supplier engagement strategies.
• Lead key and complex sourcing projects for project labour, professional services, maintenance support, and associated capital-project requirements.
• Prepare regular dashboards and reports covering forecast versus actual demand, vacancies, fulfilment, mobilisation, supplier capacity, cost, compliance and risk.
• Coordinate with preferred and tiered labour suppliers to test market capacity, support mobilisation readiness and improve fulfilment outcomes.
• Ensure sourcing and contracts are executed and managed in accordance with governance and compliance requirements, including use of Ariba.

Skills

Labour forecasting

Stakeholder engagement

Sourcing strategy

Procurement lifecycle

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Law/Engineering/Construction/Project Management

Tools

Ariba

Job description

Lime Recruitment seeks a Senior Sourcing Specialist to drive labour strategies for capital projects across Australia and New Zealand. You will forecast demand, shape sourcing strategies, and manage complex supplier engagements to support project delivery.

You will lead dashboards and reports on forecast vs. actual demand, vacancies, and mobilisation risks, ensuring governance and compliance in all sourcing activities. Hybrid Brisbane-based role with broad collaboration across portfolios.