Road Logistics Specialist

**Road Logistics Specialist**

**Contract until June 2024**

**Secunda**

**Job Purpose**:

- Work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual objectives.
- Prepare for and applies a range of negotiating tactics to achieve win-win commercial and non-commercial outcomes.
- Develop close relationships with suppliers, generating trust, maximising mutual value and reducing risk.
- Assess and improves on suppliers' ability to deliver against agreed objectives and works to enhance suppliers' capabilities in line with the organisation's needs.
- Protect the organisation by identifying, assessing and mitigating source of supply and supplier risks.

**Duties**:

- Develop negotiation plan based on intelligence provided in sourcing plan.
- Execute sourcing events in accordance with sourcing plan directives.
- Negotiate contractual agreements based on negotiation plan, sourcing plan intelligence and sourcing event submissions in order to achieve most effective outcome in direct coordination with the legal function.
- Observe and comply with group and functional policies and procedures in the execution of contracting responsibilities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on shared objectives and requirements in terms of contracting processes.
- Manage and maintain data inputs required in contract management system and contract execution systems to operationalise concluded contracts.
- Manage enablement of concluded contracts (contract roll-out, end-user training and assistance, issue management).
- Work with suppliers to resolve issues relating to contract performance (e.g. contract interpretation, variations).
- Manage contract lifecycle activities and administration (contract adherence, reviews, annual amendments, contractual matters i.e. breach etc.).
- Develop supplier relationship management frameworks to measure and track supplier adherence to contract outcomes.
- Establish trusted supplier relationships with open and effective communication.
- Maintain contractual records aligned with record keeping requirements.

**Requirements**:

- Matric
- Bachelors Degree
- 6 year's relevant experience