Manager, Procurement Business Partnering

CGR Services; Wellington; On-site; NZD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9% superannuation

Flexible working options

Life and income protection insurance

Job summary

ACC in Wellington, New Zealand is seeking a Manager Procurement Business Partnering to lead a centralised procurement hub. You will own delivery of sourcing strategies, transactional excellence and contract lifecycles across health, corporate services, technology, and data categories with a spend over several billions.

This role reports to the Head of Enterprise Procurement and focuses on automation, simplification, and standardisation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading procurement, shared services, or centre of excellence teams in large organisations.
• Extensive leadership across strategic sourcing, enterprise procurement, contract management and governance.
• Strong knowledge of Government Procurement Rules and public sector practices.
• Experience with high-volume RFX, Whole of Life Cost analysis, and delivery pipelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management with senior leadership influence.
• NZ work rights held at application time.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic direction of procurement delivery and embed the business partner model.
• Coach and resource a large centralised team of procurement specialists.
• Develop annual plans with delivery teams and align with business groups.
• Standardise workflows and scale output across the function.
• Serve as senior relationship manager for procurement delivery and risk escalation.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Stakeholder management

Public sector procurement

RFX processes

Change management

Job description

Manager, Procurement Business Partnering New Zealand Government Wellington, Wellington, NZ

Lead a high-performing procurement business partnering team across ACC. Shape strategic procurement outcomes that support better results for New Zealanders.

About us

About us | Mō mātou ACC is a trusted and high'performing organisation, providing care, supporting recovery and promoting injury prevention, now and into the future. You can find more about ACC and the work we do at www.acc.co.nz

About the role

About the role | Mō te tūranga mahiAre you a strategic leader who thrives on driving commercial outcomes, building capability and end to end procurement excellence? We are seeking a Manager Procurement Business Partnering to lead, mentor and scale our recently centralised procurement hub. Moving away from a purely advisory role you will take full ownership of a large delivery team responsible for executing sourcing strategies, transactional excellence and contract lifecycles across the entire organisation. With categories spanning health services, injury prevention, corporate services and technology and data, and a combined spend of over 4 billion this is a highly influential role requiring technical proficiency, relationship management, strong commercial acumen, ability to drive change, and a great attitude. Our aim is to do good procurement, faster. We partner with the business to be involved in procurement conversations early, enabling better results for everyone. This is a fast-paced role, you'll need to excel at multi-tasking, be confident with challenge, and have a passion for team development. This is an exciting and unique role, reporting into the Head of Enterprise Procurement, with scope to deliver meaningful change, lifting the Enterprise Procurement function into a centre of excellence. You'll bring enthusiasm and drive for automation, simplification and standardisation.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership - lead the strategic direction of the procurement delivery function, and drive change that sees the business partnership model fully embedded.
• Team leadership and development - lead, coach and resource a large, centralised team of procurement specialists who partner with their respective part of the business.
• Service Delivery Management - manage the development of annual plans for each delivery team in conjunction with relevant business groups, ensuring resourcing activity meets business demand.
• Process optimisation - work with the procurement leadership team to standardise workflows, and scale output.
• Senior stakeholder Manager - act as the senior relationship manager for procurement delivery and the escalation point for major delivery risks and issues.

This is a permanent role, based in Wellington.

The appointing salary for this role is $164,705 - $210,000 based on experience.

Benefits

• Enjoy ACC's industry-leading 9% superannuation contribution and flexible working options.
• ACC offers a comprehensive benefits package which at present includes an advantageous superannuation scheme (9% contribution) with features like no mandatory employee contribution, optional life and income protection insurance.

About you

You will bring :

• Significant experience (5+ years) leading and developing high-performing procurement, shared services, or centre of excellence teams within large, complex organisations.
• Extensive procurement leadership experience across strategic sourcing, enterprise procurement, commercial management, contract management, and commercial governance.
• Strong knowledge and practical application of Government Procurement Rules, Delegated Financial Approvals, conflict of interest management, and public sector procurement practices.
• Deep expertise in high-volume RFX processes, Whole of Life Cost (WOLC) analysis, and delivering operational excellence through structured delivery pipelines.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and drive outcomes at senior leadership level.
• Proven ability to lead change, scale teams, manage competing workloads, improve processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Strong commercial acumen, critical thinking, and strategic problem-solving capability, coupled with a collaborative leadership style that promotes engagement, accountability, and high performance.
• You must hold New Zealand work rights at the time of application.

Working at ACC

Working at ACC | Mō ACC At ACC, we embrace the rich tapestry of Aotearoa New Zealand's cultures and are dedicated to providing equitable opportunities. We know that a diverse and inclusive team helps us meet the needs of our customers, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, age, and those with diverse abilities. It's important to us that people are free to be themselves at work. Here are some ways we encourage that :

• Employee networks to support our colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• The option to explore flexible working that suits your needs and ours.