Senior Specialist, Commercial

4 weeks ago

Centurion, South Africa Indipath Recruitment Full time
QUALIFICATIONS:
  • B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
  • Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable

EXPERIENCE

Relevant 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 OUTPUTS

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 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 Companys 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 (COPs) 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 Companys 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

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