Joan Smith Email & Phone Number

: Commodity/ Contracts BuyerDuties: Obtaining RFQ’s from suppliers; Placing of orders on the system; Preparing of documents for presentation in Tender Committee for approval; Updating of Sole adjudication forms; Initiate procurement process; Arrange site meetings and conduct them; Evaluate and control tenders Place orders / award contracts Expedite the delivery of orders Negotiations Comply to governance requirements Perform any other legitimate activity as required.Publish tenders on the Eskom tender bulletin on the Internet.Evaluating tenders for commerciial, financial PPPFA, & BBBEE, rate and score suppliers accordingly.Managing negotiations, site meetings and clarification meetings.Award and conclude contracts accordingly.

Assisting the Contract Manager with new contracts with suppliers on products or services; Assisting Commodity Manager with the KPI’s of the Commodity; Managing the targets on savings; Attending CFST (Cross Functional Sourcing Team) meetings form the different IT DepartmentsWriting of reports, orders and mandates;Negotiating of tenders;Presenting reports and mandates to the Tender Committee;Evaluating of tenders, TCO’s and awarding orders and contracts;Assisting with the monthly reports for exco members;Managing catalogues of EBP system, Ariba and SAP;Creating and maintaining of catalogues on the system;Super user, training other Buyers on new system;SYSTEMS WORKED ON: Ariba SAPe-Procuremente-Merge