Senior Specialist, Commercial - Pretoria, South Africa - Exxaro Recruitment

Exxaro Recruitment

Verified Company

Pretoria, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Job Advert Summary:

PURPOSE:

***- To develop and implement contracting strategies and, commercial value release initiatives

To provide commercial leadership and expertise within portfolio and support Manager, Capital Buying with regards to execution of contract management strategy for allocated portfolio
To develop and maintain contracting strategies
To provide specialist commercial input for contracting across all Business Units
To provide a portfolio supervisory role in terms of contract vetting, and people performance management and contract lifecycle management.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

Develop and implement contracting strategies
Involve relevant stakeholders and obtain signoff while planning and executing contracting strategy
Achievement of stretched financial targets under sustained business cost pressures.

Minimum Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS:

B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE:

6-8 years Relevant experience in Supply Chain or related; Procurement; and Contract Management on a management level (Essential/Minimum) Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities:

Best 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 Company
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 supplier development initiatives
Influence local economic development initiatives
Manage the drafting of the commercial agreement and finalise signoff 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

Maintain database of supplier information and ensure that integrity and quality of data are relevant and of required standard
Support onboarding of new suppliers and manage supplier relationships
Provide relevant and specialized support to applicable stakeholders
Collaborate and communicate with customers and suppliers
Build sound relationships with Business Unit (BU) endusers, key suppliers and project teams
Work with contractors, consultants, Project Managers and BU endusers by providing contract specialist skills
Establish and maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders
Collaborate and communicate effectively with customers and suppliers
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 endusers in all areas of contract management
Engage in supplier nego