At a Glance
- Tasks: Support capital projects with labour strategy and sourcing strategies across Australia and New Zealand.
- Company: Lime Recruitment, a dynamic firm focused on innovative capital project solutions.
- Benefits: Hybrid working model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a collaborative team with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on major projects while developing your career in procurement.
- Qualifications: Experience in procurement, labour forecasting, and strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 $ per year.
Contract to 22/11/2027 | Brisbane, QLD | Hybrid working
Lime Recruitment is currently recruiting a Senior Sourcing Specialist – Capital Projects and Labour Strategy. In this role, you will support capital projects across East Coast Australia and New Zealand, with a strong focus on labour strategy, workforce demand planning, commercial delivery, and turning capital plans into actionable sourcing strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with capital project leaders to understand project pipelines, schedules, capability requirements, and changing labour demand.
- Develop and maintain short-, medium-, and long-range labour forecasts across the capital portfolio, including role, trade, location, timing, and volume requirements.
- Consolidate project demand into an integrated workforce view to identify peaks, constraints, duplication, mobilisation risks, and opportunities to sequence requirements.
- Translate labour forecasts into fit-for-purpose sourcing, contracting, and supplier engagement strategies.
- Lead key and complex sourcing projects for project labour, professional services, maintenance support, and associated capital-project requirements.
- Prepare regular dashboards and reports covering forecast versus actual demand, vacancies, fulfilment, mobilisation, supplier capacity, cost, compliance, and risk.
- Coordinate with preferred and tiered labour suppliers to test market capacity, support mobilisation readiness, and improve fulfilment outcomes.
- Ensure sourcing and contracts are executed and managed in accordance with company governance and compliance requirements, including use of Ariba.
About You
- Strong experience in procurement and contracts across the end-to-end contract lifecycle, ideally supporting capital projects, sustaining capital, or major maintenance programs.
- Demonstrated experience in labour forecasting, workforce demand planning, resource planning, or contractor workforce management.
- Proven ability to consolidate multiple project demand signals into clear forecasts, dashboards, and decision-ready reporting.
- Experience leading sourcing initiatives across labour, professional services, construction, maintenance, or project-support categories.
- Strong commercial and analytical capability, including confidence working with workforce, supplier, spend and performance data.
- Strong influencing, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and presentation skills across project, operational and functional teams.
- Degree in Business, Law, Engineering, Construction, Project Management, or a related discipline is preferred; experience with tier-one companies is desirable.
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