City of Napier Looking for Procurement Advisor at Napier, Hawke’s Bay Full Time

Permanent, full time (Monday to Friday)

Napier City Council is one of Napier’s biggest and most desirable employers – we value excellence, integrity, sustainability and outstanding customer and community service.

Napier is a lively and vibrant city, offering an exceptional climate as well as plentiful opportunities for family, recreation and relaxation. Improved road and air links are helping to make Napier one of New Zealand’s most popular, liveable and easily accessible cities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced procurement advisor to provide exceptional internal support, generalist commercial advice and deliver lower value-lower risk procurement activities. This is a hands on role modelling credible government procurement practices supporting a highly competent team to achieve required outcomes aligned with Napier City Councils policies and procedures.

You will be responsible for creating regular reports and provide procurement, contractual and commercial advice to internal customers. You will contribute to the All-of-Government (AOG) agreements, complete procurement plans and RFx documentation with the support of the Procurement & Contracts Administrator to manage the release of documents to markets via GETS, manage responses and draft evaluation reports.

This role has a strong customer service focus. The ability to communicate with all stakeholders, provide solutions, escalate risks and support the Senior Procurement Specialist and Procurement Lead with complex processes with high risk/high value procurement is essential.

To be considered for this role, you will need to have:

• A tertiary degree (supply chain, logistics or business administration)
• 5 + years’ experience in a commercial environment
• Project related work experience
• Ability to work with a diverse range of procurement requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communicator

Experience working in a government environment would be an advantage.

If you are ready for this opportunity, then we encourage you to apply now. We will be interviewing suitable candidates as applications are received and may close this advertisement when we have found the right person.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Napier City Council is responsible for Civil Defence emergencies and as such, all staff may be called upon to support the response.

Our preferred candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening which includes drug testing and, for some roles, health screening.