Procurement Category Manager – IT | Contract | $1,000 to $1,200 daily (inc super) Melbourne/hybrid 6 months to permanent
Start within 2 weeks I’m looking for a genuine IT category specialist to take the lead on roughly $75m of technology spend for a listed FMCG business operating across Australia and Recent Zealand. You’ll report to the Head of Procurement. The brief is to centralise commercial leverage and visibility, without owning day-to-day IT operations. What you’ll do
Build and own the IT category strategy across software, cloud, hardware, telco and managed services
Lead sourcing and negotiations with suppliers over $250k
Drive licence optimisation, supplier consolidation and rate harmonisation
Set up invoice assurance and leakage controls




Build business cases and a single advantages register with Finance What you’ll need
Hands-on IT procurement or category management experience
A track record negotiating software, SaaS, cloud and managed services agreements
Solid financial skills, including benefits baselining and realisation
The ability to turn messy ERP and invoice data into commercial insight
Comfort influencing in a multi-entity business where you don’t control every lever To be upfront, this one needs real technology procurement depth. If IT is a small part of your background, it won’t be the right fit. You’ll need to be available to start within two weeks.

📌 Procurement Category Manager Melbourne (Australia)
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