IT Contracts Specialist

IT Contracts Specialist at WaterNSW

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Technology Assets & Software Contracts Specialist (Full Time, Permanent) to join our team. This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state.

This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you’ll be supported to build a rewarding career.

Perks And Benefits

At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that’s why we offer a load of benefits.

• Flexible working
• Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise Agreement
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Fertility leave
• Corporate wear allowance
• Professional development and educational assistance
• Access to remote area benefit packaging – based on work location
• Salary starting from $137,125 base + 12% Super
• And so much more!

The Role

This is a senior specialist opportunity for a commercially astute professional who can go well beyond maintaining asset registers. You will play a key role in optimising multi-million-dollar technology investments, providing financial insight, forecasting, and value-for-money analysis across WaterNSW’s digital asset and contract portfolio. The role demands strong capability in financial planning, cost trend analysis, renewal forecasting, and commercial risk management, combined with a deep understanding of ICT asset lifecycles and vendor contracts. You will partner closely with Finance, Procurement, and Technology leaders to shape renewal strategies, challenge cost drivers, and inform strategic sourcing and investment decisions. This role is ideal for candidates who are confident turning asset and contract data into executive-level insight and influencing outcomes—rather than simply maintaining systems or registers. You will be trusted to provide specialist advice, identify optimisation opportunities, and ensure technology assets deliver sustainable value across their full lifecycle.

What We Are Looking For

• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Procurement, IT, or related discipline.
• Understanding of ICT hardware and software lifecycle.
• Familiarity with procurement processes, compliance requirements, and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in Information and Communications technology specifically regarding contract management including procurement, negotiation and ongoing contract management.
• Extensive relationship management skills demonstrated ability to proactively and effectively provide high quality customer service, vendor management and high-level interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in developing and implementing vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated understanding of ICT hardware and software lifecycle and licencing.
• Strong analytical and financial skills.
• Current NSW Drivers Licence

How We Will Support You

At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility – and the way we work – with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals.

When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you’re required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week.

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities.

More About Our Team / Culture

No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public.

Who is WaterNSW?

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW. We’re the people taking care of the state’s water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering. Find out more at waternsw.com.au.

Key skills/competency

• Contract Management
• ICT Asset Lifecycle
• Software Licensing
• Financial Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Procurement
• Negotiation
• Risk Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Stakeholder Engagement