Senior Contract Specialist (EXPR)

SUMMARY:
The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Contract Specialist for a 12-month fixed term contract for our client in Mpumalanga. We require your 8 years` Management work experience in the Supply Chain, Procurement and Contract Management environment.

 

We require the following work experience:

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POSITION INFO:
The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Contract Specialist for a 12-month fixed term contract for our client in Mpumalanga. We require your 8 years` Management work experience in the Supply Chain, Procurement and Contract Management environment.

 

We require the following work experience:

Develop and implement contracting strategies and, commercial value release initiatives

Provide commercial leadership and expertise within portfolio and support Manager, Capital Buying with regards to execution of contract management strategy for allocated portfolio

Develop and maintain contracting strategies

Provide specialist commercial input for contracting across all Business Units

Provide a portfolio supervisory role in terms of contract vetting, and people performance management and contract lifecycle management

 

Minimum educational level:                                                      

Engineering, Supply Chain or Procurement Degree

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contract lifecycle management for entire portfolio
• Ensure that the consultation, design, administration, facilitation and coordination of the tendering process completed correctly
• 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 supplier development initiatives
• 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
• Support on-boarding of new suppliers and manage supplier relationships
• Provide relevant and specialized support to applicable stakeholders
• Collaborate and communicate with customers and suppliers
• Build sound relationships with Business Unit (BU) end-users, key suppliers and project teams
• Work with contractors, consultants, Project Managers and BU end-users by providing contract specialist skills
• Negotiate procurement savings
• Compile enquiry documentation as per project
• Commercial and financial evaluation of tenders
• Obtain tenders from specific marketplace through solicitation process

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