Category manager

Are you ready to join the winning team at The Lottery Corporation?

We power Australia’s biggest lottery games – and we’re one of the world’s top-performing lottery businesses. As the home of The Lott and Keno, we’re building on decades of excitement and life-changing wins, bringing our games to every state and territory except WA.

For more than a century, we’ve been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community. 

But we’re not standing still. We’re evolving into an entertainment company – more customer-obsessed, more agile and driven by real outcomes.

Because at our core, it’s simple: we create winning moments – and we’re building the next chapter as the team behind Where Australia Comes to Play.

Join us!

This is a pivotal role in helping The Lottery Corporation build a world-class procurement function. As Category Manager, you will develop and execute category strategies, lead sourcing and supplier management activities, and partner with stakeholders to deliver commercial value, cost savings and innovation. You’ll drive end-to-end procurement outcomes across your portfolio while ensuring strong governance, compliance and risk management, contributing to a coordinated, enterprise-wide procurement team. Please note this is a 6 month contract opportunity.

What you’ll do

• Support a diverse portfolio of procurement categories including Tradition and Digital Marketing, Print & Distribution, Logistics, Property, Facilities, Hardware, and Equipment.

• Partner with business leaders to develop and execute category strategies, delivering end-to-end sourcing, tendering, negotiation, contracting and implementation activities.

• Drive commercial outcomes through supplier relationship management, performance optimisation, innovation and sustainable cost-saving initiatives.

• Manage procurement governance, risk and compliance while leading complex sourcing projects and ensuring business continuity across key categories.

• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, influencing business decisions, delivering value-focused procurement solutions and providing performance reporting on key category objectives and outcomes.

What you’ll bring

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree qualification, preferably in Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Business Management.

• Other advanced degree (Masters or equivalent) strongly preferred.

• 5+ years relevant category management experience

• Proven experience in developing, implementing and maintaining category strategies.

• Proven expertise in negotiating with suppliers.

• Understanding of working in a regulated environment & experience in creating risk mitigation plans and strategies (ideal).

What you’ll get

Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you’ll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it’s like to be part of our team.

The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few:

• Balance work and life with our ‘flex for great outcomes’ approach – hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options.
• Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
• Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future.
• We empower careers to grow from within. 50% of all roles in 2025 were filled by our own people, proving that your next opportunity is already here!
• A true sense of belonging. We’re committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affirmation Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations.
• Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities.

If this role is of interest to you and you’re ready to spark possibilities with The Lottery Corporation, but don’t feel that your experience aligns 100%, we would still love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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