ASD is part of the intelligence community and a vital member of Australia’s national security community. Our operational work includes intelligence, cyber security, and offensive cyber operations to protect not only the government but the full Australian community. Our work is diverse, interesting and meaningful and genuinely contributes to protecting Australia.

The Procurement Specialist’s role is to provide procurement services in the areas of labour hire and the procurement of ICT hardware and software products. The role works to support our project and program teams with building capability across the organisation and the results are genuinely tangible. The ideal candidate will coordinate and undertake the full scope of procurement activities from beginning to end including planning documentation, RFQ, engagement with business and contract management activities.

The role has a significant emphasis on providing a timely and responsive procurement service to all Program areas, with individual procurement activities prioritised by a team leader. A number of simultaneous procurements will be expected to be managed at any one time.

The Procurement Specialist will liaise directly with technical and non-technical staff and work to complete purchases in accordance with established procurement guidelines.

The Procurement Specialist is expected to work independently in a collaborative team environment. Key skills include the ability to follow established processes, prepare quality procurement documentation, maintain procurement records, communicate effectively with a range of vendors and suppliers either directly or through panel approaches, and operate with a degree of autonomy.