Procurement Specialist
Sugar Australia
Date: 5 days ago
City: Melbourne, Victoria
Contract type: Full time
Ready to turn procurement into real business value?
Join Sugar Australia as a Procurement Specialist at our Yarraville VIC Head Office and help shape the delivery of commercially driven procurement strategies that support operational performance across our national footprint. This permanent, full-time role is ideal for a detail-oriented, results-focused procurement professional with a strong understanding of supply chain operations and a passion for building effective stakeholder relationships.
The sweet things you'll be involved in:
As the Procurement Specialist, you'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of direct spend categories (e.g. packaging, raw/process materials, contract packers). You'll help identify opportunities to reduce cost and risk, manage supplier relationships, and ensure alignment between our procurement activities and business needs.
What you'll be doing:
We're looking for a commercially focused procurement professional with strong stakeholder engagement and supplier management skills. In this role, you'll act as the key connection between our internal teams and external suppliers, helping to drive value, manage risk, and support smarter commercial decisions across the business. You'll also need:
Sugar Australia is the nation's trusted partner in sugar and ingredient solutions enabling our customers to make great products for every home. We own and operate refineries, packing facilities, sugar silo terminals and warehouse distribution sites across the country.
It takes a great team to turn raw sugar into our many food grade products and we work hard to make the highest-quality liquid sugars, icings, syrups, and crystals.
You will find our retail products at your local supermarket under the iconic CSR sugar brand. We also supply refined sugar products and many other ingredients to the industrial, foodservice and hospitality industries, supplying some of the largest brands in the country.
When joining the Sugar Australia team, you can expect to be part of a passionate and inclusive work environment that supports business growth and people development within a values led culture. In return you'll be remunerated with a competitive pay, onsite parking, hybrid working, access to an EAP provider, and access to our product library for those passionate bakers at heart.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from people regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs.
If you're a practical, results-driven procurement professional who values collaboration and delivering real commercial value - we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and be part of something sweet!
Business unit Sugar Australia
Join Sugar Australia as a Procurement Specialist at our Yarraville VIC Head Office and help shape the delivery of commercially driven procurement strategies that support operational performance across our national footprint. This permanent, full-time role is ideal for a detail-oriented, results-focused procurement professional with a strong understanding of supply chain operations and a passion for building effective stakeholder relationships.
The sweet things you'll be involved in:
As the Procurement Specialist, you'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of direct spend categories (e.g. packaging, raw/process materials, contract packers). You'll help identify opportunities to reduce cost and risk, manage supplier relationships, and ensure alignment between our procurement activities and business needs.
What you'll be doing:
- Managing end-to-end procurement for our direct categories, including tenders, negotiations, and contract execution.
- Building and maintaining strong supplier relationships to support quality, delivery, and cost performance.
- Partnering with internal stakeholders (Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Technical) to align procurement activities with business needs.
- Monitoring category spend, analyse pricing trends, and contribute to cost-saving and risk reduction initiatives.
- Maintaining procurement systems and documentation, including SAP data, contract registers, and category compliance records.
- Providing procurement input for new product development and site-based reviews to ensure alignment with business KPIs.
- Supporting group-wide procurement initiatives and contributing to continuous improvement across processes and supplier performance.
We're looking for a commercially focused procurement professional with strong stakeholder engagement and supplier management skills. In this role, you'll act as the key connection between our internal teams and external suppliers, helping to drive value, manage risk, and support smarter commercial decisions across the business. You'll also need:
- A tertiary qualification in Business, Supply Chain or Procurement.
- 3-5 years' experience in a procurement specialist role, ideally within FMCG or manufacturing.
- Experience managing direct spend categories.
- Strong background in supplier management, tender processes, negotiations, and contract execution.
- Commercially minded with a practical approach - someone who can "get in and get things done".
- Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient in Excel, SAP, and comfortable with reporting and data analysis.
Sugar Australia is the nation's trusted partner in sugar and ingredient solutions enabling our customers to make great products for every home. We own and operate refineries, packing facilities, sugar silo terminals and warehouse distribution sites across the country.
It takes a great team to turn raw sugar into our many food grade products and we work hard to make the highest-quality liquid sugars, icings, syrups, and crystals.
You will find our retail products at your local supermarket under the iconic CSR sugar brand. We also supply refined sugar products and many other ingredients to the industrial, foodservice and hospitality industries, supplying some of the largest brands in the country.
When joining the Sugar Australia team, you can expect to be part of a passionate and inclusive work environment that supports business growth and people development within a values led culture. In return you'll be remunerated with a competitive pay, onsite parking, hybrid working, access to an EAP provider, and access to our product library for those passionate bakers at heart.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from people regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs.
If you're a practical, results-driven procurement professional who values collaboration and delivering real commercial value - we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and be part of something sweet!
Business unit Sugar Australia
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