Description

Trade Me is one of New Zealand's most popular websites with over four million members and more than 650,000 Kiwis visiting our site every day.

Here at Trade Me we're expanding our capacity to deliver value to our customers faster and more reliably. A critical success factor to this is the ability to deliver value in partnership with the right vendors. This means we have an exciting new opportunity to join our team as a Procurement Manager. This role will establish our procurement practice and develop consistent governance & engagement models with our partner vendors.  This role will ideally be based out of Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch. 

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:
#Flexible
Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance.
#Wellness
Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.
#Leave
We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days wellness leave each year and 10 days sick leave from day 1.
#Social
Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Friday drinks and nibbles every fortnight, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.
#Learning
Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.

Here's what you can expect from this role:
* You'll own the procurement practices for Trade Me, with the freedom to establish these practices how you see fit - but you'll also have the support to succeed and deliver meaningful outcomes for Trade Me.
* You'll be looked towards as an expert on the industry landscape, so that existing and prospective vendors are engaged for the right services at the right time.
* You'll lead market engagement activities, and ensure vendor selection activities (such as RFPs or agile procurement) drive the right outcomes for Trade Me.
* You'll lead commercial negotiations and maintain financial oversight of vendor engagements, ensuring maximum value and minimal waste.
* You'll own the governance structures for vendor relationships, then leverage those structures to resolve issues, mitigate risks and identify service improvement opportunities that may exist.
* You'll align with and be a champion for best-practice delivery and agile methodologies, ensuring that the partnership's ways of working are cohesive and adapt as needed.

What you will bring to our team:
* The ability to successfully establish and lead a procurement practice for a business whose demands are primarily for professional and software services.
* High-quality & results-focused leadership of market engagement activities and vendor negotiations, being able to provide a clear line of sight from intent to outcome.
* An outstanding communicator - able to explain ideas simply & clearly, listen carefully to others, and proactively improve team communication.
* Great at building strong relationships, influencing and collaborating with others.
* Energy, drive and enthusiasm for excellent results and a genuine desire to help and motivate others.
* 3+ years Procurement Management, ideally in the IT sector.
* Experience working in a hybrid project environment, using both waterfall and agile product delivery approaches where appropriate.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwis to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi's look first.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.