Sourcing Specialist
CurrentJob Purposes:•To implement and maintain procurement, service and supply contracts in line with the requirements of the relevant Procurement manager’s commodity objectives•Management and coaching of Contract OfficersDimensions•FinancialAdministrating annual procurement spend approximately R400 millionAdministrating rebate collection and follow up (+/-R1 million)Administrating payment terms loaded onto system (+/-R6 million)•Staff – management of between 1-6 Contract Officers; •Other – Contracted suppliers under control of Senior Contracts Officer approximately 250Detailed duties & responsibilities:•Management of a commodity portfolio •Management of costs and savings against budget •Implement strategies on a tactical level for all commodities; •Facilitating and conducting the RFP process; •Determine potential suppliers; •Drafts RFP’s using the standard wording/clauses; •Issue and coordinate RFP process•Adjudicate on RFP responses to determine most suitable suppliers and provides NFR recommendations ; •Checks and ensures system updates occur with the relevant contract pricing terms & conditions (Business rules) and other criteria for internal and external users •Ensure all on-going changes to contracts are loaded to the system•Analyse and determine commodities spent and if sufficient volume or other criteria exists, initiate the contracting process; •Supporting the Procurement manager; •Manage and administrate suppliers contracts •Monitor transactional compliance to ensure adherence to agreements as well as social requirements ; •Negotiate referring to the Procurement Manager for approval; •Negotiate and award contract to preferred suppliers based on “Value” decision •Spend analysis ;•Develop cost breakdown/inflation drive model per commodity; •Management of Contract Officers including coaching and development ; •Ad-hoc contracts