PURPOSE:
- To manage, coordinate and administer contracts with suppliers.
- To assist Capital Buying Manager with formulation of capital buying strategies to align with overall Supply Chain Management strategy
QUALIFICATIONS:
- B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- Diploma Corporate Law (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
3-5 Years Relevant Supply Chain, Procurement, Contract Management or related experience. Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. SAP MM, Coupa). (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
Best Practice and Knowledge Management
- Identify and support implementation of process and system enhancements to continuously improve commercial management process
- Facilitate commercial process and ensure adherence to sound ethical principles
- Mitigate risk in terms of contractual exposure to the Company
Business Partner Enablement
- Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
- Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in transaction guidance and support
- Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content
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 Capital Buying guidelines and procedures with those of the Company’s SCM blueprint
Contract Management
- Negotiate and monitor savings
- Administer tender process including adjudication of tenders
- Agree adjudication matrix with project teams and negotiate regarding suppliers contract terms and conditions
- Compile, evaluate, manage and maintain all contract related affairs regarding stipulations, recommendations and adherence to contractual rights and obligations
- Establish, manage, maintain, approve or seek approval of contracts
- Contribute to supplier development including Local Economic Development
- Resolve contract disputes
Customer and Client Relationship Management
- Maintain database of supplier information and ensure that integrity and quality of data are relevant and of required standard
- Support on-boarding of new suppliers and manage supplier relationships
- Provide relevant and specialized support to applicable stakeholders
- Collaborate and communicate with suppliers
- Build sound relationships with Business Unit (BU) end-users, key suppliers and Supply Chain (SC) Management
- Work with contractors, consultants, Project Managers and BU end-users by providing contract specialist skills
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, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) 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
The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
