About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly analytical and proactive inventory and supply chain professional to join our Procurement team in a full‑time and permanent capacity based at our Melbourne CBD head office.

This role will be responsible for ensuring the timely availability of critical electricity network materials required to meet business demand. It plays a key part in balancing stock availability with cost efficiency through data‑driven decision‑making, demand forecasting, and supplier performance management.

The role will work collaboratively across procurement, operations, projects teams and business units to pull together data to allow for the optimisation of inventory levels, mitigate supply risks, and support the seamless delivery of projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and optimise reorder points and minimum order quantities to balance stock availability and cost efficiency
• Monitor inventory levels, usage trends, and key performance metrics to support optimal stock positioning
• Prioritise material reservations and coordinate with purchasing to ensure timely availability of critical items
• Assess stock holdings across storage facilities to align with current and future business demand
• Identify and mitigate risks including stock shortages, excess inventory, and obsolescence
• Develop future demand forecasts in collaboration with business units to support project delivery requirements
• Evaluate supplier delivery performance, manage backorders, and provide insights and reporting to drive improvements.

To Succeed in This Role You Will Have

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience in supply chain, inventory management, or procurement roles
• Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting complex data sets
• Demonstrated experience in inventory planning, forecasting, and optimisation
• Experience managing and improving supplier delivery performance
• Proficiency in ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms
• Solid understanding of inventory management principles, KPIs, and procurement processes
• Demonstrated strong stakeholder management and engagement skills.

Benefits

We’re proud to offer an inclusive, supportive workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to grow. Some of our benefits include hybrid work options, purchased leave, 15 weeks of gender neutral primary parental leave, health and wellbeing subsidiary, career development and planning opportunities, and exclusive discounts.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace where people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities and ages are valued for who they are and empowered to do their best. Through our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy (DEI), Reconciliation Action Plans and initiatives like Women in Power and Sparkle, our LGBTQIA+ allies network, we’re working to create equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for Women.

What We Value About Our Applicants

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and strongly encourage First Peoples, women, people from the LGBTIQA community, culturally and racially marginalised people and people with disabilities to apply. We recognise how people from marginalised groups can face extra barriers and self‑select out of recruitment processes. With this in mind, we’re committed to making reasonable adjustments to ensure a positive, barrier‑free recruitment process.

Accessibility and Reasonable Adjustments

If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us.

We Acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Beon, CitiPower Powercor and United Energy recognise Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge their ancient and continuing connection to Country.