Procurement General Manager

**Who are we?**

**Qualification and Experience**
- Degree with 10 to 15 years related experience.

**What will make you successful in this role?**
- Business Contract Management Admin
- Facilitating the re-contracting process for IT services
- Managing the filing process of all contracts
- Administering NDAs for individuals and corporations
- Managing vendor correspondence as required
- Overseeing the approval process for independent contractors
- Vendor Engagement Forum Coordination.
- Coordinating forums and associated meetings, including tracking and reporting attendance confirmations, and preparing meeting documents ,agenda, minutes.

Rate Administration
- Maintaining continuous interaction with relevant stakeholders to ensure sourcing aligns with MSA agreements
- Supporting rate negotiations between clients and suppliers
- Assisting in cost-saving initiatives
- RFx coordination
- Assisting in the management of RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes, ensuring compliance with RFx policies

Vendor or Supplier Onboarding
- Collecting necessary documents to ensure vendors are onboarded in accordance with Sanlam’s sourcing policy
- B-BBEE Administration
- Ensuring vendors maintain the desired B-BBEE level
- Accurately recording and frequently updating vendors B-BBEE information
- Key Deliverables
- Strategic Sourcing Plan
- Delivery of an annual sourcing roadmap aligned to business needs.
- Identification of cost-reduction and value-creation opportunities.

Vendor Management Framework
- Implementation of a performance-based vendor management system.
- Quarterly vendor scorecards and business review meetings.

Cost Optimization
- Annualized cost savings targets through supplier negotiations, consolidation, or demand management.
- Transparent reporting of procurement-driven savings to executive leadership.

Contract and SLA Governance
- 100% compliance with contracting standards, SLA documentation, and renewal cycles.
- Standardisation and digitisation of the contract repository.

Compliance and Risk Mitigation
- Full adherence to internal procurement policies, regulatory guidelines, and audit requirements.
- Risk assessments and due diligence processes for all high-risk suppliers.

Leadership and Capability Development
- Ongoing training and mentorship of procurement team members.
- Succession planning and workforce capability development.
- Provide clear direction, support, and motivation to ensure high levels of engagement and productivity.
- Set performance goals, conduct regular reviews, and implement development plans to drive individual and team success.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Driving business unit efficiency and target achievement
- Manage partnerships and communication
- Strategic and Operational Call Centre control and reporting
- Budgeting, expense management and audits
- Management of employees

**Personal Attributes**
- Builds effective teams - Contributing strategically
- Decision quality - Contributing strategically
- Directs work - Contributing strategically
- Business insight - Contributing strategically

**Build a successful career with us**
- We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

**Core Competencies**
- Cultivates innovation - Contributing strategically
- Customer focus - Contributing strategically
- Drives results - Contributing strategically
- Collaborates - Contributing strategically
- Being resilient - Contributing strategically

**Turnaround time**

**Our commitment to transformation**

At MiWay we believe in cultivating a positive and dynamic working environment that gives you freedom and opportunity to succeed. MiWay is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This is what drives us to achieve a multicultural workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, reflective of the demographics of our society.