Commercial Specialist

**PURPOSE**

An exciting opportunity exists to prepare cost estimates and analyse tender requirements for competitive bidding to meet and exceed current and future strategic financial objectives. The role will drive a culture of strong commercial thinking, alignment as well as contract/commercial negotiations with various parties. The role is responsible of managing the contract escalation within the business and any financial guarantees and retention.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Business Management**
- Execute project responsibilities for their function in line with organisational strategy, to achieve set goals
- Executing commercial function to support sustainability of the broader business, as per operational and financial project requirements.
- Identify and escalate commercial issues that may arise from conflicts between internal and external stakeholder requirements.
- Participate in setting and implementation of the commercial functional strategy as well as providing guidance on regional and project commercial issues within the Division.
- Ensure appropriate commercial support function positioning and delivery
- Provide commercial and contract management support and inputs to the tender process
- Contribute to overall Divisional revenue growth by optimal contractual execution

**Financial, Commercial and Contracts Management**
- Participate on the procurement of subcontractors and materials, prepare and continuously review estimates and allowable for all products
- Prepare work to be estimated by gathering proposals, blueprints, specifications, and related documents
- Compute costs by analysing labour, material, and time requirements.
- Present prepared estimate by assembling and displaying numerical and descriptive information.
- Lead pricing of change impacts as required at all projects.
- Resolve contractual and commercial disputes.
- Review Professional indemnity and other related insurances.
- Manage scope changes and contract variations.
- Maintain Proposal registers and document control.

**Risk Management and Compliance including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Responsibility**
- Take full responsibility for general conditions of contract, special conditions, specifications, and drawings; be aware of relevant legislation relating to the contract
- Drive best-practice commercial management processes, policy and procedure in line with the business requirements

**Stakeholder Management (Internal / External)**
- Communicate with trade partners and team members regarding new and current projects.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with vendors and subcontractors.
- Balance commercial functional requirements, with internal and external stakeholder requirements, to support business development, growth and profitability while maintaining exceptional customer relationships and functional service delivery.

**Operations and Project Management**
- Ensure the flow of project information is maintained and documented.
- Review general conditions, schedule, scopes of work, hoisting plans, site logistics and other exhibits as prepared by sites
- Ensure timely completion of estimates
- Prepare cost analysis
- Manage and coordinate the contracts review process

**Management Operating System and Reporting**
- Put appropriate controls in place at point of execution
- Ensure all relevant commercial data is collected accurately and on time, at point of execution, and provided to relevant stakeholders in required format

**SHEQ Management**
- Ensure appropriate zero harm principles are costed for on all proposals.

**Culture and Climate**
- Build a culture of commercial continuous improvement

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- A minimum of a relevant Engineering/Quantity Surveyor degree or equivalent
- Law/Commercial qualification will be and added advantage

EXPERIENCE
- Five to ten years’ experience in the tailings, mining, engineering, commercial environment
- More than five years in estimation of engineering works

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED
- Estimation
- Budget tracking
- Commercial
- Negotiation
- Initiative and drive

**CLOSING DATE: 3 February 2025