Procurement Category Manager | Packaging & Consumables

About Us

Let’s create a more sociable future together. At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia.

If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

• Bring your passion and feel the energy!
• Utilise your extensive strategic sourcing experience and working understanding of category management.
• A motivated, collaborative team environment.

Group Procurement enables our business by procuring all our Non-Trade Goods and Services.

As a Category Manager within the Procurement team, you will manage the ‘Packaging & Consumables’ category which includes Cash in Transit (CIT), Dry Goods and Tool of Trade. The annual value of your remit is north of $120M a year.

You will play a key role in leading, developing and delivering complex, high value and high risk category strategies, commercial cost optimisation activities; with a focus on cost containment, risk mitigation, responsible sourcing and value creation.

This position will see you deeply partnering with your business stakeholders to collaborate and deliver value – leading, developing and delivering, sourcing activities, advanced negotiations, scope/specification review, demand management and supplier relationship management within the Endeavour process.

The Category Manager confidently ideates, challenges and problem solves; driving category solutions from implementation through to end of life.

Leading a team of 1‑2 direct reports, you’ll develop and train your team of Category Specialists; embodying Endeavour’s Values and Ways of Work and leading by example.

Sounds good? Read on:
Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Understand the Endeavour business and cost drivers and in collaboration with business partners, create category strategies and execute sourcing events to deliver sustainable value.
• Challenge, influence and mobilise key stakeholders to deliver impactful change.
• Extract insights from complex analysis.
• Drive decisions through clear communication and presentations.
• Facilitate complex, high value, high risk, strategic sourcing activities and supplier negotiation.
• Anticipate and execute complex, high value, high risk, strategic contract‑based opportunities.
• Develop, implement and manage vendor performance metrics, documents and reporting as part of a Supplier Relationship Management plan (metrics, compliance, continuous improvement plans).
• Develop and maintain category plans for the categories.
• Drive Supplier Diversity, ESG priorities and business efficiency through category strategies and sourcing activities.
• Participate in projects as assigned by the S‑n Category Manager and/or the Head of Procurement.

Now let’s talk about you:

• Procurement Category Management (minimum of 7 years) experience.
• Proven experience in the packaging & consumables category.
• Have successfully developed, executed and managed category and sourcing strategies for large/complex categories, having regard to diverse procurement and responsible sourcing practices.
• Effective negotiator, communicator and people influencer, able to build relationships with stakeholders across all levels.
• Strategic thinker and self‑starter with commercial acumen, able to navigate complex environments with ease.
• Curious and willing to challenge whilst managing your time.
• Manage ambiguity well, seek clarity with confidence and speak up.
• Desire to learn, develop and grow within the team.
• Exceptional written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Intermediate analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data to build actionable insights.
• Membership of a Procurement‑aligned body highly desirable.
• Enjoy using interpersonal and technical expertise to solve problems on paper and drive solutions through to implementation.
• Passionate about being an amazing business partner, building trust and creating procurement champions from peers and leaders.