Senior Procurement Manager (Construction)

About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

The Operations Group
The Operations Group delivers frontline customer services to Victorians and the public service, and maintains the foundational platforms that support efficient, secure and reliable service delivery. The Group operates as a customer-centric shared services business — guided by its leadership principles of customer centric, data informed, curious, digital by nature, performance oriented, frank and fearless, united and adaptable — and is delivering a multi-year transformation to uplift the maturity of shared services across government, as set out in the Operations Group Playbook.

The Finance, Procurement and Contract Management  Division

The Division provides the essential tools and services to manage public resources efficiently. It manages the flow of funding from budget bids through to payments to staff and third parties, ensures spending is recorded and reported accurately, and leads the design and delivery of the shared finance operating model across DGS and its partner departments. The Division also holds the department’s commercial, procurement and contract management capability — including the accommodation and property portfolio through which DGS provides workspace to the Victorian public sector.

About the role
Reporting to the Director, Commercial and Contract Management, the Senior Procurement Manager (Construction) is responsible for working in close collaboration with the Property Portfolio Team in developing and implementing effective construction procurement strategies and leading complex procurements to drive effective outcomes.

Coordinating and delivering procurement activities for a diverse range of construction projects and initiatives, the role is also responsible for ensuring compliance with State Ministerial Directions for public construction procurement, optimising expenditure through the use of State mandated construction contracts and working effectively with a number of stakeholders across Victorian government departments and agencies, industry groups and construction services suppliers.

The role is also responsible for the well-being and development of staff and the management of daily workload priorities and ad-hoc projects, identifying continuous improvements for greater efficiency.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the end-to-end procurement activities across construction procurement to ensure that optimum procurement outcomes are achieved.
• Lead and inspire a team of professionals, create a positive workplace culture, and develop capability and team performance.
• Develop, maintain and manage Construction Procurement artefacts in line with the DTF Ministerial Directions and instructions for public construction procurement, forms, templates, guidance materials, and processes.
• Provide high quality, consistent and considered advice to the Property Portfolio Team on best practice construction procurement and sourcing, procurement policies and driving efficiencies, savings and Value for Money outcomes for the VPS.
• Develop effective and collaborative relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including senior management, departmental colleagues, and other key staff from government departments, suppliers and industry bodies.
• Support the planning, development and implementation of systems, tools, analytics and reporting to facilitate the delivery of best practice procurement outcomes.
• Preparation of written material, reports and briefs for stakeholders including senior management, the Department’s Executives and relevant Ministers. 
• Other reasonable duties as directed by the Director, Commercial and Contract Management from time to time.

Mandatory requirements

• Significant public sector procurement experience, with proven ability to operate in accordance with delegated authority, consistent with departmental and government policies.
• Tertiary qualifications in procurement, commerce, law or related disciplines is highly desirable.

This is an ongoing role. The position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia. 

For more information and the key selection criteria, please see the Position Description. 

How to apply:
Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Thursday, 26 November 2026. All applications should include: 

• a resume; and  
• a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages).
  
  

Other relevant information:
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident.  Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form. Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check.  

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.   

DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.