About the position
My client, a leading mining company, is looking for a Commercial Advisor (Information Management) to join their team in Rosebank for a 6 month contract.
Reporting to the Manager: Category Management, the successful individual will provide efficient and effective commercial activities relating to categories that deliver improved business performance through commercial agreements, enabling innovation; supplier partnering; and internal stakeholder collaboration.
The individual will require experience in procuring the following:
- Software Licensing Agreements
- IT Services (e.g.: managed services; cybersecurity; cloud)
- Telecoms and Network Infrastructure
- IT Hardware and End-User Devices
- Digital Platforms and Data Services
Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Safety, Health and Environment:
- Identify ways to support specific safety, health & sustainability opportunities and risks and ensure transactional purchasing activities comply with all Safety, Health & Environmental requirements.
- Ensure the safe operation of the commercial environment, performing regular risk assessments and raising any risks/issues immediately
- Comply with relevant policies and standards and particularly the Contractor Performance Management policy & procedures to enable achievement of gold-standard contractor safety performance
Delivery & Performance:
General
- Embrace an agile Supply Chain by being adaptive and flexible to accommodate and focus on emerging and changing business?priorities?
Commercial Value Delivery & Supplier Partnering
- Support the development of category, sourcing and contracting strategies and plans through data gathering and analysis and responsibly execute allocated sourcing & contracting activities.
- Maintain relationships with strategic suppliers, to drive step change in value and deliver innovative solutions that?position?the company?as?a partner of choice.
- Optimize value through innovation, risk mitigation and growth throughout the relationship life cycle.
- Follow a set of global standards for suppliers and contractors to enable delivery in a safe and socially acceptable way, and ensure that the organisation sources from responsible suppliers.
- Support the implementation of commercial strategies to support business needs and improve value delivery.
- Provide support with regards to negotiations and finalising GFAs (General Framework Agreements).
- Adhere to?value?creation?and?supplier?engagement?strategies?that?align?to?the?overall?Supply Chain strategy, critical tasks, performance targets and Business Unit priorities.
Planning
- Actively track commercial dashboard KPIs (e.g.: cycle times, contract coverage, category/supplier/contractor performance etc.) and proactively address and escalate issues.
- Provide support with the development of category strategies though the analysis and gathering of data.
- Identify, enable & track value and inclusive procurement opportunities, commercial initiatives and specific resource requirements.
- Plan and execute activities for relevant commercial?activities.
- Execute relevant project procurement activities in a timely and visible?manner.
- Track and monitor progress tracking against sourcing & contracts and category management targets. ?
- Provide input into the relevant budget and resource requirements.
Sourcing & Contracts Management
- Responsible for compiling and executing allocated sourcing events, contracting and contract management (including administration), supplier/contract performance management and initiative management.
- Support with the effective execution of contracts administrative duties like price files, variations and amendments.
- Implement value delivery plans for routine and tactical sourcing & contracting and contractor management activities.
- Execute effective and efficient commercial activities relating to corporate, regional or BU contracts in a timely and value driven manner, including timeous and accurate?capturing of?price updates?for contracts in?the system.
- Create proactive visibility and continuous improvement of sourcing and contracts pipeline related to allocated portfolio.
- Regular,?timeous?and?accurate?reporting?pertaining?to?routine and tactical sourcing & contracting activities.
- Implement value opportunities and mitigate risks pertaining to the portfolio.
- Ensure cross collaboration between internal and external stakeholders.
Commercial Agreements
- Support a culture of Sustainable Value through?ESG,?TCO initiatives, innovation, working capital and?cost reduction.
- Provide support with the implementation of?sustainable value?creation?strategies, initiatives?and associated business cases, that advance technical, community, sustainability, and financial ambitions.?
- Build and maintain relationships with suppliers, to drive step change in value and deliver innovative solutions.
- Provide support regarding supplier performance management of select suppliers and address escalated issues.
- Support Inclusive Procurement teams to identify supplier development needs and opportunities.
Inclusive Procurements
- Support input to, and delivery against, inclusive procurement and commercial plans to ensure targets are met against scheduled milestones.
- Understand?community?specific?needs?and identify value?creation opportunities.
- Drive?a?culture?of?community?development?and?inclusive?procurement?with?stakeholders that are aligned to the Inclusive Procurement strategies.
- Execute and adhere to an Inclusive Procurement programme that will increase host community commercial participation and support the development of thriving communities.
- Adhere to Inclusive Procurement expectations, targets and initiatives in commercial agreements and manage the delivery thereof.
- Support the Inclusive Procurement team to identify supplier development needs and opportunities.
Sustainability & Social
- Support a culture of Sustainable Value through?ESG,?TCO initiatives, innovation, working capital and?cost reductio.
- Provide support with the implementation of?sustainable value?creation?strategies, initiatives?and associated business cases, that advance technical; community; sustainability; and financial ambitions.
- Build and maintain relationships with suppliers, to drive step change in value and deliver innovative solutions.
- Provide support regarding supplier performance management of select suppliers and address escalated issues.
- Support the Inclusive Procurement team to identify supplier development needs and opportunities.
Stakeholder & Supplier Management
Contractor Management
- Include the?correct?safety?specifications?and?KPIs?in?sourcing?and?contract?documentation.
- Support with the development of supplier scorecards, monitoring of supplier performance, interpretation of performance data and development of insights.
- Monitor the?commercial?performance?of?suppliers,?escalate?issues?and?drive?resolution.??
- Participate in?quarterly?review?/?performance?meetings.??
- Adhere to planned timeframes on contract management activities.
- Support cross functional team interactions with internal stakeholders to execute category management activities.
Supply Chain Excellence
REQUIREMENTS:
- Undergraduate qualification - bachelor's degree/equivalent OR relevant tertiary qualifications and proven track-record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
- Practical experience in Supply Procuring of:
- Software Licensing Agreements
- IT Services (e.g.: managed services; cybersecurity; cloud)
- Telecoms and Network Infrastructure
- IT Hardware and End-User Devices
- Digital Platforms and Data Services
- Good technical knowledge across the SC value chain
- Sourcing and Contracting
- Ability to integrate Commercial, PSC, Supplier Management & Purchasing sub disciplines
- Safety & Sustainability as it relates to Supply Chain & Inclusive Procurement
- Strong commercial and business case development
- Negotiation
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Critical and systems thinking capability
- Own vehicle and valid driver's license
Desired Skills:
- commercial advisor
- information management
- contract
- mining
- software licensing agreements
- IT services
- telecoms and network infrastructure
- IT hardware and end-user devices
- digital platforms and data services
- inclusive procurement
- supplier partnering
- commercial value delivery
- sourcing and contracts management
- commercial agreements
- contractor management
- SC
