Manager, Commercial and Contracts

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Executive Level 2 Lower, Ongoing
$135,402 - $152,073 + 15.4% super
Melbourne (preferred) or All Bureau capital city locations will be considered
The Manager, Commercial and Contracts is responsible for leading the Bureau of Meteorology's commercial, contract and vendor management activities consistent with legislation, Government policy and enterprise processes. The role plays an integral part in the overall effectiveness of the Procurement Contracts function, providing thought leadership and authoritative advice on a range of complex commercial issues ensuring both strategic priorities and governance requirements are balanced to support delivery of Bureau strategy.

The role is responsible for leading and managing the Commercial, Contracts Vendor stream and will be responsible for ensuring the Bureau's contract managers understand and comply with the defined frameworks leading activities for uplifting the Bureau's contract and vendor management capability.

The successful candidate will also provide expert commercial advice to support RFT and statement of requirements development, commercial evaluation, negotiation, and drafting of resulting statements of work and commercial negotiation terms through to contract execution and / or contract variation of existing agreements, across a range of strategic, complex IT systems integration and managed services based RFTs and agreements.

The role reports to the Procurement Contracts Lead and will need to demonstrate high level critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and influencing skills in order to ensure strategic and governance requirements are met for the Bureau. The successful candidate will develop and maintain productive relationships with the Bureau Executive and Managers to ensure strategic priorities are delivered in conjunction with maintaining ongoing Bureau operations.

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