Strategic Commercial Portfolio Leader

New Zealand Government; Wellington; Sur place; NZD 163 000 - 218 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ministry of Social Development (MSD) invites a senior commercial leader to influence outcomes across the organisation through strategic leadership, expert contracting, and enterprise-wide guidance. You will shape portfolio roadmaps, lead sourcing, and optimise supplier performance for professional services contracts, collaborating across MSD.

This fixed-term role is based at MSD's National Office in Wellington, until 30 June 2027.

Qualifications

• Significant procurement and commercial management experience within complex organisations.
• Proven success developing and implementing commercial strategies and leading complex procurement initiatives.
• Strong supplier relationship management experience, including oversight of strategic or high-risk suppliers.
• Demonstrated ability to manage commercial risk and complexity across enterprise-level supplier arrangements.
• Qualifications in procurement, commercial management, law, business, or a related discipline, with MCIPS or equivalent highly regarded.
• Experience operating within governance, assurance and public accountability frameworks.
• Experience managing facilities management, property, workplace services, or related corporate services portfolios would be highly regarded.
• High-level commercial acumen and the ability to balance strategic, financial, contractual, and operational considerations.
• Advanced stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
• Experience leading change and embedding best practice procurement and commercial approaches.
• Strong understanding of New Zealand Government procurement settings and machinery of government, or the ability to quickly build this knowledge.

Responsabilités

• Lead development and delivery of portfolio roadmaps and sourcing pipelines, ensuring strategic alignment across the full commercial lifecycle.
• Recommend commercial models and lead development and implementation of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) strategies.
• Lead high-stakes negotiations to secure robust commercial outcomes and ensure supplier commitments support our strategic goals.
• Lead and support high-value, complex, and cross-agency projects from planning through delivery, providing strong commercial leadership across business case, market engagement, evaluation, negotiation, and implementation.
• Foster strong supplier partnerships that unlock innovation, resilience, and value beyond cost.
• Craft and execute sourcing strategies that align with MSD's long-term vision and meet the evolving needs of our stakeholders.
• Lift organisational capability in contract management through coaching, tools, and practice improvement.
• Manage critical relationships across all levels-internally and externally-to drive collaboration and commercial success.
• Identify and manage commercial risk, ensuring robust governance and sustainable outcomes across complex supplier arrangements.

Connaissances

Procurement strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Negotiation

Supplier management

Risk management

Formation

MCIPS or equivalent

Procurement/commercial management or related degree

Description du poste

Ministry of Social Development (MSD) invites a senior commercial leader to influence outcomes across the organisation through strategic leadership, expert contracting, and enterprise-wide guidance. You will shape portfolio roadmaps, lead sourcing, and optimise supplier performance for professional services contracts, collaborating across MSD.

This fixed-term role is based at MSD's National Office in Wellington, until 30 June 2027.