Procurement Graduate
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Procurement Graduate is a team member position with a growth and development focus. This position is designed to provide learning opportunities to build understanding of procurement concepts, strategies, and best practice principles and how to apply them to deliver results.
The Procurement Graduate assists with conducting market research, analysing procurement and contract management issues, developing plans, and preparing advice for procurement projects.
As part of the Procurement Graduate role you will undertake four, six-month placements to a range of government agencies.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal Specifications
Successful candidates will demonstrate the following:
- Ability to understand and analyse information.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Problem identification and solution skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Effective project management.
- Ability to build and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders.
Prerequisites
- Qualifications must include a tertiary bachelor’s qualification.
- Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Procurement activities and tasks
Contributes to tasks and projects as directed, maintains effective working relationships
- Work with stakeholders to identify needs.
- Undertake market and spend analysis and use data to forecast future demand.
- Use data to understand trends and support the development of recommendations.
- Develop market engagement strategies and work with peers to undertake early market engagement.
- Assist with running tenders.
- Build strong working relationships with suppliers/providers as part of supplier relationship management.
- Write compelling and well thought through business cases, commercial opportunities, and contract management plans.
Work management
Plans and manages work, develops, and maintains relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Works with close guidance and supervision when needed but also works autonomously on small projects.
- Assists project leaders with project planning and project management by contributing deliverables on time and keeping abreast of project milestones and interdependencies.
- Manages own workload with assistance from Manager or more senior Procurement Advisor- Analyst.
Wellbeing, health and safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
- Ensures own and others safety at all times.
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.
Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry
NZGP is a branch within The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). We have a vision for New Zealand’s government procurement to be fair, transparent, inclusive, and efficient. It will deliver more value and respond to changing government priorities.
At all times during the Programme, you will be employed by MBIE and will report to the Procurement Graduate Programme Lead, New Zealand Government Procurement at MBIE. Your MBIE Manager is responsible for overseeing and supporting your development throughout the programme. As you will be seconded to a Host Agency, you will report to your Host Agency Manager on day-to-day matters. Details of your Host Agency Manager will be provided ahead of each secondment. Although you will have regular contact with your MBIE Manager, your primary responsibility will be to your assigned Host Agency Manager.
To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
Ngā matatau – Our competencies
Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.
Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.
Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.
Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.
Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.
Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service
Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission
