AIC & Supplier Development Specialist

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia. 

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us. 

Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.  

Position Summary

This is a high-impact, strategic role responsible for shaping and delivering end-to-end category, sourcing and Australian Industry Capability strategies across multiple operational and programmatic requirements. You will work closely with suppliers, Australian Industry partners, and internal stakeholders to establish sourcing strategies, supplier networks, local capability pathways and commercial frameworks that ensure the right products and services are available at the right quality, cost, and time while strengthening Australian industry participation, ethical sourcing, innovation and supply chain resilience. embedding sustainability, ethical sourcing, innovation, and supply chain resilience.  

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced procurement and strategic sourcing professional with strong supplier management, negotiation and industry engagement capabilities to help build and enhance Metrea's regional procurement capability across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region while delivering meaningful commercial outcomes and advancing global procurement standards.  

In this role, you will lead the development and execution of category strategies that support a resilient, compliant, low-risk, and high-performing supply chain.

What You'll Do

This is a high-impact role where you’ll help shape how Metrea sources, partners and builds capability across Australia and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

You’ll lead strategic sourcing, category management and Australian Industry Capability (AIC) initiatives across a diverse mix of operational and program requirements. Working across Metrea and with suppliers and Australian industry partners, you’ll turn business needs into smart sourcing strategies, strong supplier networks and commercial outcomes that support our missions.

• Develop and deliver category and sourcing strategies across key spend areas
• Build strong, trusted relationships with suppliers and Australian industry partners
• Identify opportunities to grow Australian Industry Capability and strengthen local supply chains
• Lead supplier selection, commercial negotiations and contracting activities
• Partner with teams across Operations, Programs, Engineering, Finance and Commercial to understand what they need and find the best way to deliver it
• Drive value beyond price — balancing capability, quality, risk, speed and whole-of-life cost
• Build resilient supplier networks that can respond to changing operational requirements
• Embed responsible and ethical sourcing into procurement decisions
• Identify opportunities for innovation, supplier development and smarter ways of working
• Use supplier and market insights to challenge assumptions and influence better commercial decisions

What You Bring

You’re an experienced procurement, category or strategic sourcing professional who knows how to get things done in complex environments.

You’re commercially sharp, comfortable negotiating with suppliers and just as capable building a sourcing strategy as you are rolling up your sleeves to solve an immediate operational challenge.

• Experience across strategic sourcing, category management, procurement or supply chain
• Strong commercial and negotiation capability
• Experience managing suppliers and building strategic partnerships
• An understanding of Australian Industry Capability, Defence industry or complex regulated environments would be highly regarded
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to influence across different functions and levels
• The ability to work through ambiguity, move quickly and balance competing priorities
• A practical mindset; you’re interested in outcomes, not procurement for procurement’s sake

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Highly skilled negotiator with demonstrated experience developing negotiation strategies and leading complex commercial negotiations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesise large volumes of data and translate insights into actionable recommendations
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, engineering specifications, and maintenance documentation
• Professional procurement or supply chain certification preferred, including:  
  • CIPS 
  • CPSM 
  • CPIM 
  • CSCP 
  • MCIPS 
• Diploma or Advanced Diploma of Procurement and Contracting
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement and delivery focus

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous Annual Leave
• Annual Incentive Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Life and TPD Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing 

Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance. 

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.   

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.