Adrian Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Provide procurement support to the business across a variety goods and services, however mainly focused in the IT space.Duties/Achievements• Successfully negotiated contracts with major technology vendors, resulting in a 20% reduction in procurement costs for allocated contracts.• Built and maintained relationships with stakeholders, ensuring that procurement processes were aligned with business objectives.• Providing value adding procurement support to stakeholders in order to secure a "seat at the table".

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Providing an integrated demand, acquisition, and contract management service of Infrastructure goods and services commodities through the development, implementation and maintenance of a transformative approach to sourcing with a focus on:Duties/Achievements• Analysed procurement data and spending patterns to create a basket of infrastructure maintenance consumable goods for contracting, that will lead to untapped cost savings.• Facilitated bid specification committee meetings by providing commercial direction to end-users.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Facilitate the end-to-end sourcing process for complex commodity-based transversal contracts, which include demand planning, bidding process, contract - placement and management, as well the analysis of procurement and financial data for planning, reporting and cost saving purposes. Duties/Achievements:• Concluded +/-ZAR350M worth of medical and surgical goods and services contracts, ensuring continuation of health services and year-on-year savings.• Developed a tool that analyses monthly expenditure trends in terms of contract usage, to track contract usage compliance and identify “buy out items” to be placed on future contracts. Meeting CFO’s requirements of having +80% compliance on a month-to-month basis• Maintained the Department’s contract database, ensuring that the database is always up to date ito any changes resulting from a tender process of contract management action, making sure users are always using the most up to date information to make contract purchases.• Developed a report that assessed the relationship between the Department and various key suppliers on a monetary basis, and used this data to leverage favourable pricing and contract terms.• Compiled a Spend Analysis SOP to assist staff in using data to make procurement decisions, in return modernising the Department’s procurement practices.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Developing and implementing the sourcing strategy, survey a particularly niche nuclear engineering market, evaluating offers and making recommendations based on complex information, but insure favorable commercial terms for various capital, maintenance and repair and professional services contracts. Duties/Achievements- Successfully negotiated a 15% reduction in the contract value for a critical professional services contract; - Leverage good standing relationship with a key supplier to keep their rates unchanged from the previous year in effort to save costs and ensure that services are rendered uninterrupted. - Concluding formally delayed CAPEX projects on time and under budget, ensuring the organisation’s compliance with international nuclear safety standards.

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcomm), Economics

Coursework included micro, macro, public, and - trade economics, as well as strategic and – financial management. It encompasses.

Contract And Commercial Management Advanced Practitioner, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management, A

The CCM Advanced Practitioner Certification provides specialised training in negotiation, contract management, risk assessment, and legal.