Defence Procurement Advisor

You're ambitious and we're growing! Your experience, motivation and enthusiasm for achieving outcomes and your personal career goals will fit perfectly with our Procurement Advisor role.

At Proximity, Advisors positions within our Procurement & Contracts Group are broad in nature, so perfect for those who are interested in a role that offers professional diversity and opportunities to learn a variety of commercial skills, working with a number of highly esteemed professionals.

Prior experience working within or with a Federal Government department in a Commercial setting, with exposure to procurement and / or contracts, will see you excel in this role. This position is based in Canberra, where you will be a key team member delivering commercial advisory services to Defence and other Federal Government clients.

A current security clearance is highly advantageous; alternatively, you must have the ability to obtain one.

• Selection Criteria
• Your strengths
• You pride yourself on your ability to be adaptable and pivot to the changes needs of the client and the project
• Have the ability to connect with others and explain things in a way that is clear, simple and easy to understand
• You establish rapport and build relationships with ease, ensuring you can engage with a variety of people from varying backgrounds and diversity of skills and experience
• You are exceptionally well organised and can manage competing priorities within a fast-paced environment whilst keeping a strong attention to detail
• You have a willingness to learn and are happy to be involved in projects, where required
• Approach is genuine, to all stakeholders
• You have a strong ethical code, always acting in best practice
• You take on personal responsibility and have a strong initiative
• Curiosity. You have the desire to test new ideas or seek new information to inform decisions
• An innovator, you can think outside of the standard process to get better value outcomes
• You are persistent, resilient, and proactively use your problem-solving capabilities.
• What you will achieve in this position

We are seeking to recruit a professional who shares our values and vision and has had exposure to Procurement, with a willingness to further build out their commercial expertise.

The objectives of the position include :

• Work collaboratively and operate as an effective team member to support the mission of your team in a Federal Government environment, ensuring you are driven to achieving outcomes for the good of Australians
• Build and sustain relationships with team members and stakeholders to achieve a common outcome
• Support delivery of procedural, operational, administrative, and business support activities across Defence, or other Government agencies
• Coordinate Procurement tasks and assist in the preparation of submissions, briefs, minutes and other correspondence for our Government clients and external stakeholders