Total 6 purchasing lead job vacancies in Others category in Australia

Due to an internal move, AECOM’s Water Resources Team in Melbourne is looking for an engaging and collaborative Team Lead to provide leadership, market engagement and to assist in growing our team.

Our Water Resources team provides multi-disciplinary, integrated delivery of water resources services across all industry sectors, particularly in the areas of flood impact assessment, hydrological modelling and drainage design.

As a contemporary leader, you will promote a culture of teamwork and technical excellence.  This role will give you the opportunity to network across all areas of the business and with our leading specialists in ANZ and globally, building your professional profile and carving a career pathway that will make a difference.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Provide technical direction, mentor and train our junior members within the team.
• Bring your creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges, determining technical objectives and requirements, and developing standards and guides for technical activities and applications.
• Support a large variety of projects across all market sectors, with a focus on transport (road, rail and air), water, energy, mining and private sector markets.
• Collaborate with local, regional, and global AECOM colleagues as part of project delivery.

• Responsible for management of the Rail Systems team (including the SESA team) within VSA and support ANZ major projects
• Assistance in capture planning and pursuits for key market opportunities
• Responsible for development and implementation of Rail Systems Sector client prioritization and strategies.
• Hold Project Director roles on key client Rail Systems projects
• Collaborate with the ANZ community to position for and secure key VSA and ANZ project opportunities.
• Work with the VSA Rail Group Lead to grow Rail business and execute strategy.
• Be involved in the strategic growth of the ANZ Rail business through:
  • Facilitation of the development and implementation of strategy in collaboration with the Regional Team Leaders
  • Analyse key markets to look at opportunities for growth
  • Support the Market Sector Leaders in identification of opportunities to collaborate between ANZ and the global business
  • Work with Marketing and Communications to support the brand enhancement and internal alignment of each business line
• Operational support for the business lines:
  • Involved in the review of the accuracy of the pipeline & highlight changes required to Team Leaders
  • Support implementation of initiatives focusing on:
    • Implementation of our sustainable legacies strategy
    • Digital Adoption

• Leveraging your change expertise to drive transformational projects and achieve impactful results.
• Applying strong project management skills to handle scheduling and budgeting, ensuring smooth execution across initiatives.
• Influencing and engaging with senior leadership to align their support with strategic goals.
• Building strong relationships and fostering a collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and heard.
• Adapting with agility to a global environment, working flexible hours while maintaining high delivery standards.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Build and nurture long-term relationships with new and existing clients.
• Prepare and review reports, proposals, tender documents, and correspondence.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to support staff development and manage   performance
• Offer technical expertise and lead business development efforts for project excellence.

• Lead strategic planning for high profiles projects to secure State and Commonwealth approvals
• Manage the delivery of complex approvals on major projects, including coordination of multidisciplinary technical teams, environmental impact assessment and approval processes
• Proven technical leadership and confidence managing multidisciplinary technical teams to identify risks, solve problems, communicate change through planning, design and approval processes.
• Provide technical advice and strategic planning for impact assessment and approvals across a diverse range of projects and environmental services
• Manage resources, delegating activities, monitoring and managing project budgets (with support as required)
• Leading business development activities, including proposals

What will a day as a Power Systems Lead will look like: 

• Be a mentor - advise, review and guide engineers across grid interconnection and system planning studies for grid scale wind, solar, energy storage and hybrid generating systems
• Partner with clients - support proponents with negotiating performance standards with AEMO and network service providers
• Nurture relationships - support key clients with stakeholder management during studies and due diligence process liaising with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Influence Strategy - support strategic pursuits and bids/proposals for major projects 

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.