Procurement Specialist
Cabrini Health, Malvern
Permanent Full Time 38 hours per week
Salary: $80,000 + super
We’re building for the better!
By 2036, more than 150,000 patients will look to us for healthcare every year.
How you’ll make an impact
Our procurement team has primary responsibility for management of sourcing and contracting activity at Cabrini Health. Through well-established processes, we enable staff to focus on their core roles within the organization by providing efficient access to the goods and services needed to perform their roles effectively. The Procurement Specialist supports end-to-end sourcing and improvement projects within the procurement team.
What you’ll be doing:
Engage with Business stakeholders to align on requirements, priorities and work plan
Engage with current and potential suppliers to understand the external environment, including technology trends and industry best practice
Support the optimisation of value to Cabrini by providing the commercial lens, and thereby building the business’ view of Procurement
Negotiate and source best-value goods and services for Cabrini, balancing cost, quality, functionality, sustainability, availability, and supplier management
Ensure timely storage and filing of project documentation and reporting of progress against deliverables
What we’re looking for:
Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in a similar role (min 3 years)
CIPS accreditation (Desirable)
Strong health industry experience, covering end-to-end sourcing of clinical products, capital and services (Mandatory)
Experience in the contract establishment process, ensuring terms reflect favourable risk and commercial outcomes for the organisation
Demonstrable experience developing and sustaining relationships with key suppliers
Familiarity with the development of category plans and sourcing strategies
Ability to provide specialist procurement advice, guidance, and commercial support to operational and clinical stakeholders
Data analysis skills to facilitate performance tracking, measurement and reporting
Why Join Cabrini?
Salary Packaging up to $18,850 per annum to increase your take-home pay
Access to a range of retail offers, discounted hospital services and savings on eligible private health fund services
Location close to public transport with Myki Commuter Club discount
A commitment to health and wellbeing initiatives including discounted access to a wide range of gyms, pools, and fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
Interested? For further information, view the full position description or contact: Don D’Cruz, Clinical Procurement Lead on 0455 803 059
Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.
Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.
As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Working for Cabrini
Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.
There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.
Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.
Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect
MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI
Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Vaccination for COVID-19 is highly recommended.
What We Do
Welcome to Cabrini Health Cabrini is owned and operated by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who came to Australia in 1948 to take over the management of a 45-bed community hospital named St Benedict’s. Cabrini now has more than 800 beds and a comprehensive range of health services. There are acute facilities at Malvern and Brighton. The Cabrini Institute supports education and research, in order to continually improve the quality of care and educate tomorrow’s health professionals. Cabrini Technology provides an innovative, independent information and healthcare technology service to organisations throughout Australasia and has headquarters in Mount Waverley. More recently, Cabrini has established an Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub in Brunswick, which provides access to a range of health services for people seeking asylum and newly arrived refugees. Cabrini is a not-for-profit health service and all surpluses are used to develop our services and facilities to provide the best possible care for patients and families. Cabrini supports and operates a number of other programs for disadvantaged people in our community. Patient care is the primary focus of our work and at the heart of all we do
