PHARMAC Looking for Procurement Manager / Team Leader at Wellington Central, Wellington Full Time

PROCUREMENT MANAGER/TEAM LEADER | FIXED TERM | TWO YEARS

Ētahi kōrero mō Te Pātaka Whaioranga | About Te Pātaka Whaioranga Pharmac

Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac is the Crown Entity that ensures New Zealanders have the medicines, medical devices, and vaccines our communities need.

Our model is unique; every year Pharmac makes more medicines available for more New Zealanders to help them achieve health and maintain health.

With approximately 150 employees; we are a small organisation where your expertise is respected, and you can make a real difference to the everyday lives of New Zealanders.

We are a pro-equity organisation, with a dedicated focus on Māori and Pacific communities gaining health equity.

Mō tēnei tūranga | About the Role

Our Procurement and Contract Team is looking for a new Procurement Manager/Team Leader. This position is for a fixed term period of two years to provide cover while the permanent incumbent is on an external secondment.

Our Procurement Manager/Team Leader position has an operational, hands-on component as well as leading the team. You would have responsibility for approximately six direct reports.

The team is responsible for managing Pharmac’s annual Tender and various other procurement activities relating to medicines and medical devices. This is a real opportunity to be at the core of Pharmac’s procurement functions of purchasing and funding in the public health system.

The role would see you engaging and seeking advice from a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, clinical experts, and MBIE, and therefore requires excellent relationship management/negotiation skills as your engagement with medical suppliers will ensure value is optimised across the supplier base.

It is a largely autonomous role that allows you enough scope to truly manage and foster supplier relationships. Coupled with this you will be able to hone your leadership qualities managing a highly effective team.

Mōhou ake | About You

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi? Are you ready to make a difference?

Working across a diverse business we require a procurement all-rounder to lead a small team responsible for leading the procurement process and commercial strategies for community medicines, hospital medicines and feeding into a wider programme around medical devices to ensure optimum value for money is gained. This is very much a hands-on role and will require the successful person to be heavily involved in the procurement process.

Experience in leading people and manging a team will be key to succeeding in this role. The nature of the work is cyclical, so we are seeking organised individuals who have an analytical ability and problem-solving skills when presenting information to internal and external stakeholders in a timely way.

The successful person would have:

• Experience in procurement and a thorough understanding of the Government Rules of Sourcing
• People leadership experience
• Contract negotiation skills, risk management and the ability to understand legal considerations.
• Strong commercial focus.
• An ability to think strategically and systematically.
• An understanding of the public health sector would be advantageous.
• Experience of working in the wider public sector would also be advantageous

The role would also provide the opportunity to apply strategic and tactical application to develop the systems and processes required to lead the team into the future.

Ngā painga | Benefits we offer

Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac is a learning organisation; we invest in and support our people to grow and develop into the best version of themselves.

Our employees are offered an annual wellbeing allowance of $500, generous professional development support and five weeks of annual leave in addition to our end-of-year paid close down period. We also provide a paid we offer an annual paid Volunteer Day at a charity or community initiative of your choice.

Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac values flexibility in the workplace; we recognise all of our people are different with unique needs, so we support and maintain our people’s work life balance such as remote working or flexible hours. We are a whānau first organisation and provide paid Parental Leave support in addition to minimum legislative requirements.

Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac is also a member of the N3 program, which provides significant discounts to our employees at several of New Zealand’s leading retailers, such as PlaceMakers, Specsavers, Resene and OfficeMax.

Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac strives to represent Aotearoa New Zealand and the communities we serve; we are committed to championing workplace inclusion and acknowledge that in order to do their best work, we must foster an environment where people are comfortable to be themselves and work in a way that best suits their individual needs. This includes enabling accessibility and facilitating the workplace inclusion of people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities, and religions.

Applications close 5:00pm, Monday, 24 October 2022. We may identify our preferred candidate earlier than the listed closing date, so if this sounds like your next exciting career move, apply today!