Greater Melbourne Area
A collaborative and pragmatic commercial, contracts and strategic sourcing manager. Over 15 years’ experience in all phases of the contract life-cycle including category management, sourcing events, contract drafting and negotiation, supplier relationship and performance management, and dispute resolution. Proficiency across a range of business-to-business services agreements, with deep expertise in the information technology and digital sector, including IT outsourcing agreements, software licencing and system integration services. Known for excellent communication and collaboration skills, and being passionate about continuous improvement and optimising total cost of ownership.
Responsible for developing and implementing operational policies, procedures and commercial management systems that support the effective delivery of CPA Australia's professional education program.
Providing expertise on the development and implementation of contract and vendor performance management processes, and applying plain language drafting and contract design principles to policy reviews.
Full contract life-cycle management for agreements supporting the University's student accommodation portfolio, with a primary focus on vendor performance management. Core accountabilities include: * Managing a complex legal and financial partnership with key strategic partners. * Driving operational performance and compliance from strategic partners, and ensuring internal compliance and value realisation for the University. * Working collaboratively with a wide variety of stakeholders to identify, develop and negotiate new partnerships and commercial opportunities. * Development of a new plain-language student accommodation agreement. * Oversight of outsourced property operating services agreements, and development and implementation of referral agreements to ensure supply continuity. * Oversight of asset management services contracts, including planned and responsive maintenance services * Managing the defect liability period on three significant construction projects.
Driving the strategic procurement agenda through developing, leading and executing robust category plans and sourcing strategies to increase value for money and to meet the University’s business objectives. Spend under management of $200M including software renewals, ERP implementation, sourcing events and cyber security initiatives. Delivery of improved commercial outcomes and business process. Providing outstanding business engagement and influencing skills to obtain stakeholder buy-in; leading negotiations on high impact, complex sourcing arrangements and contract issues to deliver better category outcomes; team leadership of two direct reports; project management.
Providing a full suite of commercial and contract management services to projects and BAU teams, including liaising with Procurement, Legal and other key internal stakeholders on Technology’s behalf, mitigating contractual risks and ensuring compliance, and ensuring maximum value realisation out of agreements. Contract and vendor management of the Wipro ITO agreement, including development of a streamlined mechanism for engaging contingent labour resources that generated significant overhead savings. Awarded, negotiated and managed MPAs, SOWs and EULAs, at values ranging from $25k to $25M, with suppliers including SAP, IBM, Microsoft, GE Energy, VMware, Telstra, Hitachi Vantara, Siemens, Itron, Data#3, Dell, Dimension Data, Accenture, Deloitte and Capgemini. Developed and managed contracts registers that enabled reporting of key event dates and management of material obligations and risks.
Responsible for management of the Technology Category (including software, hardware and services), running strategic sourcing events, assessing responses and analysing total cost of ownership, and advising on (and ensuring compliance with) AusNet Services’ procurement policies and procedures. • Ran sourcing events for a range of products and professional services, including enterprise data warehouse hardware and professional services, infrastructure delivery services, storage hardware, software, outsourced services, information management, and design and system integration services. Awarded, negotiated and managed MPAs, SOWs and EULAs, at values ranging from $25k to $25M, with suppliers including SAP, IBM, Microsoft, GE Energy, VMware, Telstra, Hitachi Vantara, Siemens, Itron, Data#3, Dell, Dimension Data, Accenture, Deloitte and Capgemini. Full procurement support for two major ICT programs (the move to SAP as AusNet Services’ ERP, and the AMI metering program), which each involved a broad range of high-value and high-risk contracts for design, system integration, software licencing, and support and maintenance agreements.
Accountable for ensuring commercial and contractual agreements are in place that support achievement of the AusNet Services ICT group's objectives. Key tasks include: • Leading negotiations on a wide range of ICT contracts, including master procurement agreements, statements of work, professional services agreements, software / hardware maintenance and support agreements, software licence agreements and confidentiality deeds. • Running a mix of tenders and direct engagements, always driving for the best value outcome to achieve the objectives agreed with the relevant project or business unit. • Managing commercial risk on ICT projects, including negotiating appropriate milestone payment structures, SLAs and acceptance criteria. • Tracking vendor performance from a strategic level throughout the contract lifecycle, and ensuring that contract variations are managed appropriately. • Effectively engaging stakeholders across the company, including throughout ICT, Legal, Risk and Assurance, Finance and delivery teams. • Ensuring procurement policy compliance through education and support, and consistently demonstrating adherence. • Providing key commercial input to development of new standard contract terms and driving process improvements and simplification throughout the procurement process.
Commercial / Functional responsibility for ICT Sourcing Agreements and monitoring of supplier deliverables and commitments. Primary responsibilities include: • Delivering best practice commercial outcomes from our existing and future suppliers and building a professional and effective procurement and contract management capability within ISG • Managing suppliers and influencing key stakeholders to assist ISG to achieve its strategic objectives in managing the overall relationship with each Supplier • Providing sourcing leadership and guidance to AGL and within the ISG Sourcing Team • Defining and negotiating the Supplier commercial agreements, ensuring the best interests of AGL are incorporated within all agreements, • Engaging with AGL Group Risk and Legal to ensure AGL Corporate Governance and Compliance is adhered to, and • Applying a systematic approach and proper diligence to all internal controls so as to minimise loss and leverage opportunities
Delivering high quality regulatory advice to the retail energy business units and liaising with the business on the assessment, allocation and resolution of incidents of non-compliance.
Services procurement, contract negotiations and ongoing management of vendor performance.