Strategic Procurement Specialist – Driving Value Across Complex Health Contracts

Deliver high-impact procurement outcomes that shape smarter spending, stronger vendor performance, and better healthcare value across Metro South Health.

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Your new role:

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, this role delivers strategic procurement and contract management across a complex, high-value spend portfolio. You will lead sourcing, negotiation, and vendor management activities to achieve cost savings, strengthen supplier performance, and ensure compliance with procurement frameworks.

Partnering with senior stakeholders and clinicians, you'll drive value-for-money outcomes across capital projects, clinical consumables, and professional services, while contributing to continuous improvement in procurement practices and contract performance across the organisation.

About you:

You are a confident procurement professional who thrives in complex, high-value environments and is driven to deliver measurable value-for-money outcomes through strategic sourcing, strong stakeholder engagement, and disciplined contract management.

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end procurement and contract management in complex environments
• Strong negotiator with a track record of achieving cost savings and value outcomes
• Highly effective stakeholder manager, able to influence senior leaders and clinicians
• Sound understanding of procurement frameworks, probity, and governance requirements
• Proactive, detail-focused, and capable of managing multiple priorities in fast-paced settings

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

The Procurement and Supply Unit delivers efficient, innovative procurement, contract, and supply solutions that achieve best value for public money while ensuring compliance with legislative and policy frameworks. It supports and guides business units across Metro South Hospital and Health Service to make effective, well-governed procurement decisions, enabling clinicians and staff to focus on delivering high-quality patient care with confidence in robust procurement and contract management.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• MS07687336 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)