Senior Sourcing Specialist
IT - Contract/Procurement
Brisbane, Queensland
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
About You
Why apply through Lime Recruitment?
Enjoy two pay runs per week without contractor fees. As a Queensland owned agency, we offer personalised service and are a Tier 1 supplier to Queensland Government entities. Awarded top performing small agency in 2021 and 2022, with a finalist spot in 2023. Partner with Lime for genuine, experienced, friendly recruiters dedicated to securing the best opportunities for you. Apply now or contact James Ferguson-Phillips on 0493 130 112 or james@limejobs.com.au to find out more!
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.
Why apply through Lime Recruitment?
Enjoy two pay runs per week without contractor fees. As a Queensland owned agency, we offer personalised service and are a Tier 1 supplier to Queensland Government entities. Awarded top performing small agency in 2021 and 2022, with a finalist spot in 2023. Partner with Lime for genuine, experienced, friendly recruiters dedicated to securing the best opportunities for you. Apply now or contact James Ferguson-Phillips on 0493 130 112 or james@limejobs.com.au to find out more!
James Ferguson-Phillips
Why work with Lime?
At Lime, we take the time to understand what you want from your next role, then connect you with opportunities that genuinely fit.
We make contracting simple. We run two pay cycles each week, charge no contractor fees, and fund our own payroll, so our contractors are paid reliably and on time.
We make contracting simple. We run two pay cycles each week, charge no contractor fees, and fund our own payroll, so our contractors are paid reliably and on time.
The team behind the lime
Lime Recruitment is a Brisbane-based team of experienced ICT recruiters who stay close to the market and the people in it.
For over 16 years, we’ve helped clients and contractors navigate ICT contracting with clear advice, fast action, and honest communication. We don’t rely on volume or scripts, we guide you through the process, take responsibility for outcomes, and stay accountable from first conversation to final placement.
That’s why so many people return to Lime and recommend us to others.
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