Environmental Protection Authority NZ

Team Leader, Procurement

Environmental Protection Authority NZ

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Wellington • New Zealand

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Salary

💰 NZ$122,997 - NZ$184,495 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • lead the strategy, systems, and people that power our procurement success
  • champion best practice, guide risk-based decision making
  • ensure our procurement activity delivers real public value
  • meaningful collaboration and complex sourcing challenges
  • supplier engagement and opportunities to lift procurement capability across the organisation.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated leadership of a procurement function, preferably in public sector or regulated environments
  • Ability to apply Government Procurement Rules and provide expert advice to senior stakeholders
  • Experience uplifting capability, improving processes, and embedding procurement frameworks
  • Familiarity with NZGP competency frameworks, procurement lifecycle, commercial practice, and system wide expectations
  • Diploma in NZ public Sector Procurement / Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS) or equivalent qualification
  • Strong commercial, financial, and analytical acumen.
Benefits
  • flexible working culture
  • three additional paid leave days between Christmas and New Years in addition to four weeks’ annual leave
  • $400 non-taxable payment to help you set up working at home
  • an annual paid EPA Environment Day to support the community with environmental initiatives
  • in-house Māori cultural capability building programme
  • learning opportunities, including the annual EPA Symposium
  • active and lively social club, and diverse groups and support networks
  • EPA awards recognising individual and team effort
  • relocation help for those moving to New Zealand from overseas.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
procurementrisk-based decision makingprocurement frameworksprocurement lifecyclecommercial practicefinancial acumenanalytical acumen
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationsupplier engagement
Certifications
Diploma in NZ public Sector ProcurementChartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS)