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The manager will lead a centralized procurement hub, overseeing strategic sourcing, contract lifecycles, and transactional excellence across the organization. They are responsible for mentoring a large team, driving process automation, and acting as a senior relationship manager for key business stakeholders.
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience leading high-performing procurement or shared services teams in complex organizations. Proficiency in government procurement practices, commercial governance, and high-volume RFX processes is required, along with the legal right to work in New Zealand.
Lead a high-performing procurement business partnering team across ACC.
Shape strategic procurement outcomes that support better results for New Zealanders.
Enjoy ACC’s industry-leading 9% superannuation contribution and flexible working options.
ACC is a trusted and high‑performing organisation, providing care, supporting recovery and promoting injury prevention, now and into the future.
You can find more about ACC and the work we do at www.acc.co.nz
Are you a strategic leader who thrives on driving commercial outcomes, building capability and end to end procurement excellence?
We are seeking a Manager Procurement Business Partnering to lead, mentor and scale our recently centralised procurement hub. Moving away from a purely advisory role you will take full ownership of a large delivery team responsible for executing sourcing strategies, transactional excellence and contract lifecycles across the entire organisation.
With categories spanning health services, injury prevention, corporate services and technology and data, and a combined spend of over 4 billion this is a highly influential role requiring technical proficiency, relationship management, strong commercial acumen, ability to drive change, and a great attitude.
Our aim is to do good procurement, faster. We partner with the business to be involved in procurement conversations early, enabling better results for everyone. This is a fast-paced role, you’ll need to excel at multi-tasking, be confident with challenge, and have a passion for team development.
This is an exciting and unique role, reporting into the Head of Enterprise Procurement, with scope to deliver meaningful change, lifting the Enterprise Procurement function into a centre of excellence. You’ll bring enthusiasm and drive for automation, simplification and standardisation.
Strategic Leadership – lead the strategic direction of the procurement delivery function, and drive change that sees the business partnership model fully embedded.
Team leadership and development – lead, coach and resource a large, centralised team of procurement specialists who partner with their respective part of the business.
Service Delivery Management – manage the development of annual plans for each delivery team in conjunction with relevant business groups, ensuring resourcing activity meets business demand.
Process optimisation – work with the procurement leadership team to standardise workflows, and scale output.
Senior stakeholder Manager – act as the senior relationship manager for procurement delivery and the escalation point for major delivery risks and issues.
The appointing salary for this role is $164,705 - $210,000 based on experience. ACC offers a comprehensive benefits package which at present includes an advantageous superannuation scheme (9% contribution) with features like no mandatory employee contribution, optional life and income protection insurance.
About you | Mōu
You will bring:
Significant experience (5+ years) leading and developing high-performing procurement, shared services, or centre of excellence teams within large, complex organisations.
Extensive procurement leadership experience across strategic sourcing, enterprise procurement, commercial management, contract management, and commercial governance.
Strong knowledge and practical application of Government Procurement Rules, Delegated Financial Approvals, conflict of interest management, and public sector procurement practices.
Deep expertise in high-volume RFX processes, Whole of Life Cost (WOLC) analysis, and delivering operational excellence through structured delivery pipelines.
Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and drive outcomes at senior leadership level.
Proven ability to lead change, scale teams, manage competing workloads, improve processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Strong commercial acumen, critical thinking, and strategic problem-solving capability, coupled with a collaborative leadership style that promotes engagement, accountability, and high performance.
You must hold New Zealand work rights at the time of application.
At ACC, we embrace the rich tapestry of Aotearoa New Zealand’s cultures and are dedicated to providing equitable opportunities. We know that a diverse and inclusive team helps us meet the needs of our customers, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, age, and those with diverse abilities. It's important to us that people are free to be themselves at work. Here are some ways we encourage that:
Please attach your CV and cover letter telling us why you would be a great fit and what strengths you would bring to the role. Applications will run through to Sunday 16th August 2026 5:00pm, however if an ideal candidate is found we may progress screening and interviewing sooner.
Applications can only be accepted through the ACC Career Website. For accessibility support or pātai (questions), email [email protected] quoting the Job Identification number in the Job Info section.
Prevention. Care. Recovery. Helping you get back to what matters, sooner.
ACC NZ is an organisation quite unlike any other - in fact we are the only one of our kind in the world! At our heart is the fact we are an innovative New Zealand organisation born out of an idea - one focused on looking after the best interests of our people. So it will come as little surprise that a job with us offers an opportunity to do something that directly benefits the people of New Zealand, while also benefitting your career. There are three words that encapsulate our reason for being: prevention, care and recovery. We exist to actively minimise the chance of accidents happening. But when they do, we are here to help people with the appropriate levels of care and recovery with the aim of returning them to their normal lives faster. As you might expect, there are many people involved in making all this happen, and that's why there are many and varied career opportunities within our organisation. From Case Managers and Claims Managers to Clinical Advisors and Technical Claims Managers we offer many roles which open up a range of development avenues with ACC. What's more, we have locations around the country, all of which offer supportive, collegial workplaces. As part of the ACC's team of talented and passionate people you can also look forward to a host of benefits including flexible working options, competitive remuneration, ongoing career development opportunities, and a discounted healthcare scheme. So if ACC sounds like your type of place, let's talk today.
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