Your typical day as a Vendor Management Officer may include:
• Reviewing and interpreting a Vendor Performance and Incident Report, identifying key contract risks, and potential corrective actions.
• Attending a contract management meeting and documenting meeting minutes with clear action owners.
• Contributing to a procurement planning meeting, where you share vendor performance insights to help inform procurement options.
• Preparing a detailed financial forecast for a contract, including spend trends and risks of exceeding budget.
• Providing a concise daily update to your manager on key outcomes, highlighting new risks, issues, decisions and pending approvals.

Key responsibilities include:
• Preparing a variety of documentation including template-based briefing materials, contract management plans, expenditure tracking reports, vendor performance reports, and meeting minutes.
• Collecting vendor performance data to help ensure vendor compliance with service standards.
• Participating in vendor performance reviews, providing input to business areas to ensure vendors comply with contract terms.
• Capturing and collating contract risks and escalate contract issues to senior team members.
• Managing routine and focused contracts, including drafting contract variations and extensions, and monitoring financial performance.
• Supporting internal teams by capturing business needs into basic service deliverables and assist generally with sourcing activities.
• Providing support in contract administration tasks, including collating documentation for audits, maintaining contracts register and onboarding new vendors.

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate:
• Experience (2+ years) in a contract/vendor management role.
• Exposure to Government contracting frameworks.
• Exposure to performance-based contracts and resolution of contract issues.
• Ability to maintain accurate records and documentation for contract compliance and performance tracking.

Joining QRO you will have opportunities for continued learning, growth and career development. To find out more about working for QRO please see attached candidate information pack.

Queensland Treasury is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve and treating all applicants equitably. This starts with recruitment, including making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process. The methods used in the recruitment for a role may vary, but the sorts of processes used may include: application form, resume and cover letter, online cognitive testing, work test, written response task, assessment centre, in-person or video interview.

We welcome applicants to share with the contact officer any health condition, disability, and/or cultural/linguistic background, so that we may make any necessary adjustments to enable you to equitably participate in the recruitment process.

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Applications may remain current for 12 months after the closing date of the vacancy and may be used to fill identical or similar roles.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/637394/25

Closing Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025