Your typical day as a Principal Vendor Management Officer may include:
• Reviewing and analysing a Vendor Performance and Incident Report, identifying key trends, contract risks, and potential corrective actions.
• Facilitating a contract management meeting, addressing performance concerns, negotiating remedial actions, and ensuring all commitments are documented in meeting minutes with clear action owners.
• Contributing to a procurement planning meeting, where you share vendor performance insights and industry trends to help inform procurement strategy and contract terms.
• Preparing a detailed financial forecast for a contract, including spend trends and risks of exceeding budget and then collaborating with finance colleagues to ensure sufficient internal budget is allocated.
• Providing a concise daily update to your manager on key outcomes, highlighting new risks, issues, decisions and pending approvals.

You will be supported by a positive, constructive team and divisional leaders as you do your work.

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
• Extensive experience (5+ years) in an ICT-related senior contracts or vendor management role in a large organisation.
• Expertise in QITC or Government contracting frameworks.
• A proven track record in managing large strategic contracts and resolving complex contract issues.
• Ability to understand business needs and how they translate into service deliverables and key performance indicators.

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/647643/25
Closing Date: Tuesday, 22 July 2025