Category Specialist - ICT Procurement

Your role at St John of God Health Care

We are seeking a commercially driven Category Specialist to join the Procurement team at St John of God Health Care, specialising in Information & Communications Technology procurement. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering medium- and low-complexity category plans that drive value, optimise supplier performance, and support the delivery of critical technology solutions across the organisation.

Balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution, you will partner with key stakeholders across IT, clinical, and corporate functions to implement robust sourcing strategies, manage vendor relationships, and resolve supplier issues. Your work will directly support the delivery of innovative and reliable ICT services, ensuring procurement outcomes align with business needs, regulatory requirements, and SJGHC’s risk appetite.

With a strong commercial focus, you will contribute to maximising value across ICT investments—including software, hardware, telecommunications, and managed services—while driving cost efficiencies and ensuring service continuity. This is an opportunity for a procurement professional who thrives in a fast-paced, stakeholder-driven environment and enjoys delivering tangible impact through effective category execution.

The Position

• Drive category outcomes by developing and executing plans, analysing data, negotiating contracts and leading cross functional projects.

• Develop category plans for low to medium complexity categories and optimise value and align market offerings to organisational goals

• Execute the overall category management responsibilities, ensuring alignment with SJGHC’s strategic plan and objectives. This includes understanding business requirements, identifying opportunities and managing the full source to contract process aligned to the Procurement Pipeline.

• Understand current spending and business requirements. Develop and execute appropriate sourcing strategies to meet business outcomes and deliver value.

• Prepare RFx documentation and administer RFx process including decision team formation, evaluation model development and preparing recommendations for award.

• Support contract owners and end users with issue resolution related to third party supply.

• Track contract compliance and expiries and support the review contracts in line with market and stakeholder expectations.

• Deliver category outcomes and meet or exceed cost savings targets through data driven decision making, market analysis and performance tracking.

• Report on KPI’s, benefits and opportunities.

• Act as a procurement expert, collaborating with internal cross functional teams and external providers on requirements and opportunities.

• For end user led sourcing events develop tools, templates and provide guidance to ensure compliance with SJGHC policy and process.

• Ensure all procurement activities comply with the relevant legislation, Australian or International standards, internal policies, risk management frameworks and probity requirements.

You will demonstrate a minimum of 3 years' experience in Procurement or Category Management, with proven capability across ICT procurement categories. You will have experience working within a medium to large, multi-site organisation, ideally in the healthcare sector, and demonstrate strong commercial acumen, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to effectively deliver category plans and sourcing outcomes in a complex environment

You will demonstrate strong commercial acumen and well-developed negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to lead and finalise negotiations within tight timeframes. You are confident engaging with a broad range of stakeholders and can effectively influence and interact with senior executives, directors, clinical stakeholders, and suppliers, building trusted relationships that support successful procurement outcomes.

To succeed, you will bring proven change management capability and the ability to manage multiple projects and competing deliverables concurrently. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can adapt quickly to changing business priorities, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes while maintaining focus on value, risk alignment, and organisational objectives.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than one (1) page) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

We can offer you

• Salary: $124,196 to $137,946 per annum, plus 12% superannuation

• Can be based from our Perth, Kings Square Office or our Melbourne, Collins St Office

• Permanent, full-time opportunity – working 38 hours per week

• Working from home arrangement in place – minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

  • Novated leasing 

  • work related expenses

  • self-education and

  • additional superannuation

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

For all enquiries contact Julie-Ann McCallum, Senior Manager Procurement on 0400 046 581.

If suitable applicants are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may commence throughout the advertising process.

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.