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Every week we pull real procurement roles from the ANZ market and give you the honest read: what the ad could actually mean, and what to ask the recruiter and the hiring manager before you say yes.

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Recruiters are incentivised to fill roles. You are incentivised to get the job. Neither of those incentives has anything to do with whether the role is actually right for you.

Most procurement professionals have walked into a role that looked right on paper, and found something else entirely. A function with no real authority. A savings target set before anyone understood the spend. A manager who had already decided what they wanted before the interview started.

We've been on both sides of that table for 25 years. This is what we'd want to know. Consider this page the corner you didn't have.

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Senior · ASX-listed industrials · Melbourne

Head of Procurement

$220K to $250K + super · Reports to CFO
Worth a look

Reporting to the CFO is the most important line in this ad. “Transformation” plus “significant cost savings” tells you the function is underperforming and the board knows it.

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Mid · Series B tech scale-up · Sydney, hybrid

Senior Procurement Specialist

$140K to $160K + super + equity · First procurement hire
Proceed with caution

First procurement hire in a scale-up. Enormous scope, and no existing mandate, data or process to stand on.

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Entry · Graduate role

Graduate Procurement Officer

Entry level
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What a graduate ad actually signals about the function you would be joining, and how to tell a training role from a transactional one.

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