QUALIFICATIONS:
- B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable
EXPERIENCERelevant experience in Supply Chain or related; Procurement; and Contract Management on a management level:
6-8 years
REQUIREMENTS:
Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
POSITION OUTPUTSBest Practice and Knowledge Management
- Identify and support implementation of process and system enhancements to continuously improve commercial management process
- Study / research best practice processes and benchmark the Company processes at regular intervals
- Facilitate commercial process and ensure adherence to sound ethical principles
- Mitigate risk in terms of contractual exposure to the CompanyContract Portfolio Management
- Focus on advancements in specialist field in order to assess advancements and potential cost reduction
Compliance, Governance and Assurance
- Ensure all business and capital buying operations adhere and comply with corporate governance, statutory, legal and other internal requirements
- Provide guidance to customers to ensure adherence to all policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
- Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
- Identify, manage and mitigate risk associated with Supply Chain Management (SCM) capital buying initiatives
- Integrate Group Capital Buying guidelines and procedures with those of the Company’s SCM blueprint
Contract Portfolio Management:
- Contract lifecycle management for entire portfolio
- Consultation, design, administer, facilitate and coordinate complete tendering process
- Agree on supplier negotiation metric and negotiate with successful supplier in finalising contract terms and conditions.
- Responsible for contractually committing the Company
- Report on portfolio contract performance in line with agreed targets
- Liaise with strategic sourcing teams on relevant commodity initiatives
- Establish, manage and maintain all portfolio contracts
- Manage supplier/vendor performance
- Influence local economic development initiatives
- Manage the drafting of the commercial agreement and finalise sign-off of commercial agreement with suppliers
- Vetting and quality control of portfolio contracts
- Portfolio planning and resource allocation
- SCM balanced scorecard compliance
- Contribute to overall value release target
- Stakeholder engagement and dispute resolution
- Contract execution. Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management
Functional Excellence
- Provide relevant and specialised support to stakeholders. Functional Excellence
- Ensure correct contract templates are applied and that contracts implemented are correct, timeous and to the correct standard to support the contract strategy
- Assist with the improvement of contract templates to stay current with the developments in functional area
- Assist with development of streamlined business process to improve business process efficiency and eliminate duplication/bureaucracy
- Participate in Communities of Practices (COP’s) aimed at enhancing the function and entrench functional alignment
- Identify and mitigate contractual risks through appropriate risk mitigation plans
- Provide commercial guidance to end-users in all areas of contract management
- Engage in supplier negotiations to achieve savings target and compliance to Company commercial standards and governance
- Engage with end-users and project teams across all BU's on all organisational levels to ensure compliance to the Company’s contracting strategy.
Functional Management
- Engagement/communication: Engage with managers, operations and cross- functional managers to ensure execution of agreed contracts management plan and contracts lifecycle management
- Coordinate functional/cross-functional activities to ensure strategic alignment
- Continuous improvement and functional change: Lead functional improvement and change
- Governance: Ensure portfolio adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
People Management
- Performance management: Clarify roles/responsibilities and expectations. Define individual performance standards, monitor and measure performance of direct reports. Take prompt action against nonperformance
- Adhere to performance management procedures
- Culture/functional climate: Uphold the culture and values within the function
- Foster effective teamwork and unity
Procurement Management
- Negotiate procurement savings
- Compile enquiry documentation as per project
- Commercial and financial evaluation of tenders
- Obtain tenders from specific marketplace through solicitation process
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operation practices.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations.
Behavioural Alignment: Demonstrates the following:
- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
- Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
- - Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
- - Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective