Procurement Manager (ANZSCO 133612)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Procurement Manager on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Procurement Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Procurement Manager's task list is identical, word for word, to Supply and Distribution Manager's — the same negotiating-supplier-contracts language covers both. IML separates the two by the most senior functional position clause, here specified for product purchasing and procurement, and Procurement Manager's only recognised alternative title is Purchasing Manager, a narrower list than its sibling's. The years structure matches the rest of this family: three years in a procurement-related role including two specifically as Procurement Manager with a highly relevant degree, or five years without one.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code sits on the Regional Occupation List rather than the STSOL, so while it keeps CSOL access, the missing STSOL membership means no state-nomination pathway. An applicant whose role could plausibly be described as either supply-and-distribution or procurement gains a visa pathway by identifying the functional title that genuinely fits, independent of which assessment is easier — and since IML only assesses one occupation per application, guessing wrong means reapplying from scratch, not amending the existing case.

An honest read on this pathway

Procurement Manager reaches 186, 407, 482, 491 and 494 through ROL plus CSOL, but not 190 — a narrower list than Supply and Distribution Manager's full STSOL-plus-CSOL spread. The occupation itself is assessed on the same evidentiary footing as its sibling, with an identical task list and an identical years-in-role structure; the difference that matters to an applicant is entirely which visa pathways the resulting list membership actually opens, not how hard either assessment is to pass.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

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