Senior Commercial Specialist - Centurion, South Africa - CA Global Headhunters

CA Global Headhunters

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Centurion, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Reference Number:

MHU
Our client is a leading mining company operating multiple mines across South Africa.

The main purpose of this role is to develop and implement commodity, contracting and supplier strategies, commercial value release and security of supply initiatives; To provide commercial leadership and expertise within portfolio and support Procurement and Group Contracts with regards to execution of contract management strategy for allocated portfolio; To develop and maintain contracting strategies and contract lifecycle management for portfolio; To provide specialist commercial input for contracting across all business units; To provide a portfolio supervisory role in terms of contract vetting, resource allocation, people performance management and contract lifecycle management.

Responsibilities:

Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in transaction guidance and support
Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content
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 for 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 supplier development initiatives
Influence local economic development initiatives
Manage the drafting of the commercial agreement and finalise sign-off of commercial agreement with suppliers
Establish and maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders
Collaborate and communicate effectively with customers and suppliers
Ensure correct contract templates are applied and that contracts implemented are correct, timeous and to the correct standard to support the portfolio 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

Financial management:
Develop key commercial indices tracking model to enable effective contract adjustments and provide inputs to Business Units (BU's) for budgeting purposes

Strategic alignment/planning:
Communicate portfolio contract strategy and plan to end-users across BU's
Establish measurable portfolio targets from Group targets

Performance management:
Clarify roles/responsibilities and expectations. Define individual performance standards, monitor and measure performance of direct reports. Take prompt action against non
- performance
Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operation practices

Requirements:
Qualification and Skill

B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
Management Development Programme / MBA (Essential/Minimum)
Relevant experience in supply chain or related; procurement; and contract management on a management level.
At least 6-8 years' relevant experience at this level
Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. SAP MM, Coupa).

Benefits and Contractual information:

Permanent role
Head Office based

Mark Huber

Managing Lead - Executive Mining Recruitment

CA Mining