- Full-time
- Melbourne
Procurement Manager
- Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd
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- Challenge yourself to take the next step in your career
- Collingwood location, Jetstar Head Office
- Access to a range of employee benefits, including our staff travel program
Do you want to takeoff in a new career opportunity and put your career on your bucket list? Now is the perfect time to take off with Jetstar! Join us as we celebrate our 21st anniversary and continue our journey as the Best Low-Cost airline in the Australia-Pacific region.
This year we will also continue to welcome more state-of-the-art aircraft, launch new international routes and continue our mission to help more people take off through low fares.
About the opportunity
As the Procurement Manager you will be responsible for contract development (new contracts and contract renewals) for Jetstar Australia and New Zealand and the Jetstar Group for engineering goods and services. This position is dedicated to developing engineering supplier contracts that ensure full compliance to technical and company specifications, including industry leading safety standards, together with optimal total cost of ownership.
The Ideal candidate will have a sound technical background in engineering goods and services with experience in contract development and delivering complex sourcing strategies.
Reporting to Manager, Contracts and Vendor Performance, your main responsibilities will include:
- Preparing and delivering new contracts and contract renewals in line with business requirements and Jetstar/ Qantas Group polices
- Preparing and delivering business education materials to ensure contractual rights, privileges and obligations are understood and delivered
- Liaise with suppliers and internal stakeholders to understand the needs and requirements of the business
- Running tenders and requests for proposals and delivering complex sourcing strategies
- Able to work independently and within a team with a proven background in liaising and coordinating with internal stakeholders
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following skills & experience:
- Tertiary qualification, preferably in a business, finance or engineering related discipline
- Desirable MCIPS accreditation
- Significant experience in a similar role, with aviation or engineering industry experience highly desirable
- Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and targets
- Excellent written communication skills in drafting contracts, ideally experienced in drafting contractual documentation for engineering goods and services within large organisation
- Superior excel skills preferred with experience in financial modelling and analysis and ability to incorporate the insights and information into technical contracts
- Strong business acumen and experienced in commercial negotiation
- Extremely high levels of attention to detail complimented with the ability to meet deadlines and targets
- Ability to interact with suppliers professionally and ethically
We are looking for an individual who demonstrates leadership capabilities in a dynamic environment while ensuring operational outcomes are achieved. With a proven track record for delivering success, you will be a strategically astute individual with strong business and commercial acumen.
We’re committed to helping you build your career. With the support of your manager, let’s start a conversation about making your next move.
Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other
Put the craft in aircraft: There’s a new fleet of A321LR NEO’s waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our Operations Team get to exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group’s A320/1, B717 and A321 Freighters, plus Jetstar Branded Airlines (JBA’s) in Singapore and Japan.
Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.
Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.
There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.
We’re Jetstar. Let’s takeoff together
We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply by Friday 30 May 2025.
About us
We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

About us
We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.
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