Kia mahi ngātahi mō Pōneke mō tōna āpōpō | Working together for Wellington's future
We're Working for Wellington. Wellington City Council's team provides more than 400 services every day for Wellingtonians - everything from parks and pools to consents and cemeteries - playing our part in making Pōneke an inclusive, sustainable, and creative capital for people to live, work and play.

The Commercial Partnerships Team are a collaborative, high-energy team who love working together and are highly engaged with the mahi they do. Anyone watching them in action will tell you this. They have had quite an interactive journey as a function.

The team have worked hard to establish strong relationships with all business units across the organisation and improve the organisations procurement practice. They now need a leader to maintain that momentum and take them to the next stage, enhancing our contract management and putting a focus on value for money. This will involve building relationships with our key suppliers at a strategic level.

The Council spends over $500m on external suppliers every year, on works, goods and services that are critical for the delivery of community infrastructure, facilities and services for the residents of Wellington. Given our work programme ahead, now more than ever, effective spend with our suppliers will positively impact how far we can stretch our budgets and ultimately will impact rates.

The procurement strategy adopted by WCC focuses on ensuring good public value and proactively achieving tangible social, economic, cultural, environmental and public wellbeing outcomes.

The role

Our wider Commercial Partnerships team deliver a strategic function - the team has a well-supported mandate to deliver value, benefits, efficiency and innovation through excellent commercial procurement planning and sourcing, and commercial contract and supplier management.
The Senior Advisor Commercial Performance role is responsible for providing high quality advice supporting commercial activities across the business. This includes timely strategic advice to support commercial activity, reviewing procurement strategies and monitoring of contracts.
Success in this role will come down to the quality of advice and service, planning, training of your team and the strength of stakeholder relationships.

About you

We're looking for someone with experience improving commercial performance, including expertise in procurement - you'll have proven experience in complex and high-value commercial procurement, including large infrastructure projects.
You will be adept at building strong relationships and have the ability to develop high performing teams - inspiring and leading to deliver sustainable results. Technically, you'll be able to critically apply a range of qualitative and quantitative analysis tools and techniques to complex data.
You'll also have experience in incorporating broader outcomes into procurement.

Why us?

The groundwork has been laid to set up this team for success. We have some great people in the team already - with a passion for making a difference for Wellington.
You'll get the chance to work for a manager keen to see people succeed and progress within the organisation. He is big on being clear on the work programme and expectations.
Working for the Council offers you a range of benefits including 5 weeks annual leave, flexible working options, health and wellbeing support, Council staff discounts and a range of learning and development programmes and opportunities.

Find out more and apply

Applications close 17 February 2025. All applications must be submitted online, and applicants must have the current right to work in New Zealand.

If you have questions, please contact Quintin Howard, Manager - Commercial Partnerships on quintin.howard@wcc.govt.nz

We want to make sure any accessibility requirements you may have, are well supported so the selection process is equitable for everyone. Please let us know if there are any adjustments or support, we can offer to make our process more accessible to you by emailing: recruitment@wcc.govt.nz

Senior Advisor Commercial Performance

Wellington City Council

Senior Advisor Commercial Performance

Wellington City Council

Wellington

Wellington City Council

Senior Advisor Commercial Performance

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