Category Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
About Us
Vinarchy manages the entire wine supply chain, from grape to glass, producing wine across Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Chile and the United States. With employees located around the globe, Vinarchy is home to iconic brands including Jacob's Creek, Hardys and Campo Viejo, alongside a diverse portfolio of premium and emerging labels.
Redefining Wine is more than a tagline at Vinarchy. It reflects our commitment to innovation, our ambition to challenge convention, and our vision to shape the future of the global wine category.
About The Role
Vinarchy is building a high-performing procurement team and we're looking for a commercially minded Procurement Category Manager to join us in Adelaide.
This is not a role where you'll simply manage existing contracts.
You'll take ownership of key indirect procurement categories including IT, Labour Hire Professional and Corporate Services, developing category strategies, leading sourcing events, negotiating commercial agreements and uncovering opportunities to reduce cost, improve compliance and drive measurable commercial outcomes.
Reporting to the Head of Procurement, this role is a key contributor to the development of procurement capability across the business. While this is not a people management role, you will lead strategic procurement initiatives, influence stakeholders and drive commercial outcomes across your category portfolio.
What you'll be doing
- Build and execute category plans from the ground up
- Identify savings opportunities through spend and data analysis
- Lead end-to-end procurement activities including RFXs, tenders, contract negotiations and supplier management
- Drive procurement compliance across the business
- Develop strong stakeholder relationships and influence business decisions
- Deliver measurable commercial outcomes across cost, service, risk and sustainability
- Manage a diverse portfolio of indirect spend categories across multiple business functions and locations.
- Support responsible sourcing initiatives and develop strategic supplier partnerships that deliver long-term value.
- Oversee procurement activity across a multi-million-dollar indirect spend portfolio.
- Identify opportunities to optimise supplier performance, reduce risk and enhance value creation across categories.
What we're looking for
We're less concerned about qualifications and more interested in capability, attitude and commercial thinking.
You'll bring:
- Experience managing indirect procurement categories
- Strong procurement process knowledge, including sourcing, tendering, contract drafting and negotiations
- An analytical mindset and genuine curiosity for finding opportunities in data
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- A proactive, can-do attitude and desire to make an impact
Why join us?
- Join a new, energetic and ambitious procurement team
- Own categories with significant opportunity for value creation
- Work directly with senior business stakeholders
- Help shape the future of procurement at Vinarchy
- Be recognised for delivering tangible commercial outcomes
- Flexible working arrangements with a hybrid work model.
- Exposure to senior leaders and strategic business initiatives.
- Opportunities to travel to key operational sites, including Berri and the Barossa, providing firsthand exposure to frontline operations and helping build strong stakeholder relationships across the business.
If you're driven to uncover opportunities others miss and want to help shape a high-performing procurement function, we'd love to hear from you.