Senior Specialist, Commercial

2 weeks ago


Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Exxaro Recruitment Full time

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 negoti


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