Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Manager to partner with strategic Energy & Utilities clients across Australia. This is a high‐impact, client‐facing role for a consulting professional who thrives in ambiguity, can translate complex utility operating realities into clear choices, and can connect transformation to measurable outcomes.
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The focus of the role is re‐imagining Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay to improve cycle time, governance, supplier experience and value realisation during major CAPEX and OPEX programs. The role is ideal for a leader who combines structured problem solving, crisp communication, executive storytelling and strong organisational change awareness—alongside practical delivery discipline.
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Technology platforms such as SAP are important enabling capabilities, but the role is outcomes‐led rather than system‐led—measured by material business impact, executive confidence and sustained adoption.
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What You Will Do
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Own outcome‐led transformation agendasn
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Own problem definition and success criteria for complex transformation agendas.
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Structure ambiguity into clear decision points, strategic options, and executive trade‐offs.
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Identify and quantify value pools across productivity, risk reduction, experience and cost‐to‐serve.
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Work across: Sourcing, contracting and category strategies, Requisitioning, approvals, receipting and invoice processing.
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And: Supplier onboarding, performance and risk management, Spend visibility, controls and compliance reporting.
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Lead with a consulting mindsetn
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Apply structured, hypothesis‐led problem solving to diagnose constraints and prioritise value.
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Facilitate executive workshops to align stakeholders on future‐state outcomes, sequencing and trade‐offs.
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Develop executive‐ready artefacts: option assessments, road maps, investment cases and value realisation frameworks.
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Demonstrate executive gravitas and cultural awareness when engaging senior operational leaders and governance forums.
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Drive Lean, automation and AI‐enabled redesignn
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Re‐design ways of working using Lean, Six Sigma and value‐stream thinking to eliminate waste and rework.
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Ensure automation, AI and digital platforms are applied only where they materially improve outcomes.
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Anchor redesigned processes to experience measures (employee and customer where applicable) and measurable KPIs.
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Enable deal success and delivery confidencen
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Shape locally relevant value propositions and solution storylines that stand up to Board and regulatory scrutiny.
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Partner with delivery teams to ensure intent translates into adoption, governance discipline and realised benefits.
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Operate as the bridge between strategy, sales and delivery—ensuring credibility from pitch through execution.
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Australia‐specific priorities
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CAPEX procurement and contractor supply chains under strong probity and audit expectations.
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Cycle time reduction through simplification,



delegated authority and straight‐through processing.
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Supplier collaboration, risk controls and transparency across spend and contracts.
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What We Are Looking For
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Experience & background
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*****+ years' experience in strategy / management consulting or consulting‐led transformation roles within complex organisations.
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Demonstrated leadership of large workstreams or programs with measurable outcomes (productivity, experience, risk, cost).
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Experience operating credibly at senior executive level in regulated or publicly scrutinised environments.
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Consulting mindset & executive presence
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Structured, hypothesis‐led problem solver comfortable with ambiguity and complexity.
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Exceptional communication and facilitation skills; able to build executive alignment and decision clarity.
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Robust organisational change management (OCM) awareness—how redesign impacts people, process and adoption.
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Domain capability, process excellence & outcomes
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Strong functional depth in the relevant domain with the ability to translate operational realities into pragmatic redesign.
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Demonstrated application of Lean, Six Sigma, process re‐engineering and continuous improvement methods.
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Experience utilizing Signavio process insights platform to inform business improvements.
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Experience delivering automation, workflow and AI‐enabled operational improvements.
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Platform enabling capability
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Experience using enterprise platforms (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, IS‐U, EAM, Ariba, Signavio, LeanIX, Reltio) to enable redesigned business processes and operating models.
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📌 Procurement Transformation (New South Wales)
🏢 Wipro
📍 New South Wales