Category Specialist - IT Products and Services

About us

At CitiPower and Powercor and United Energy, we’re proud to deliver electricity to 2 million Victorian customers every day through our network of poles and wires. But more than that, we’re here to power communities, support local businesses and keep critical services running smoothly, we’re essential to them all – and none of this happens without our people. As Victorians electrify everything from homes to transport, we’re focused on ensuring our networks are ready to meet that demand. If you want to be part of something essential, be essential with us.

About the role

The Category Specialist plays a key role in shaping and delivering IT procurement strategies, working closely with the Category Manager to drive value and strong commercial outcomes. This role is perfect for someone with strong analytical thinking, commercial curiosity, and the aptitude to navigate complex supplier landscapes.

You’ll build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders, streamline procurement processes, and ensure cost‑effective, high‑quality outcomes across all third‑party IT products and services. With a focus on category planning, continuous improvement, and proactive contract risk management, you’ll help uplift procurement capability and influence how the organisation engages with the IT supply market.

Key responsibilities

• Support Category Manager to develop and deliver category plans and track value-added benefits.
• Engage and understand Business Unit (BU) needs and ensure their requirements are accurately reflected in any procurement engagement.
• Develop, manage and oversee lower value procurement market engagements, along with completing detailed pre and post analysis.
• Ensure all IT procurement requests comply with Group Procurement Policy and Processes, security requirements and architectural guidelines.
• Undertake lessons learned debriefs with stakeholders and ensure any issues or clarifications on Procurement outcomes are addressed in appropriate timeframe.
• Liaise with operational resources within business unit and key stakeholders to ensure that agreed process efficiencies are implemented operationally.
• Effectively manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring they are adequately informed of plans and progress, to ensure transparency, stakeholder buy-in across the business, clarity of purpose & consensus.

For more information on the role’s responsibilities, please click here to download the position description.

What you’ll need from day one

• Degree Qualified – Commerce, Business, Law or Engineering
• Good understanding of commercial contracts, including a broad knowledge of legal concepts and principles.
• Sound knowledge of procurement processes, policies and practices.
• Demonstrated experience in the development and delivery of end-to-end procurement market engagements.
• Proven experience in negotiating commercial contracts and supplier performance management.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management skills.

If you believe you have what it takes but don’t meet every requirement—or if you’d like to discuss flexible working arrangements to meet the key responsibilities —we encourage you to get in touch.

Key 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. Visit our company website to learn more.

Diversity, equity & inclusion to support a fair workplace for all

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. Explore our partnership with Work180.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and strongly encourage First Peoples, women, people from the LGBTQIA+ 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.

What’s next

Submit your application via our careers’ website by 24 June 2026. To make a confidential reasonable adjustment query, please contact Nadya Kartika from the Talent team at careers@powercor.com.au

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.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and supported to succeed. By making sure our workplace is physically and mentally safe, so that our people can be their authentic selves, share their unique perspectives and can thrive.