IT Procurement Administrator at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Job Objectives    
IT Strategic Sourcing
- Enforce and assist with comprehensive sourcing strategies and opportunities to maximise value and minimize the total cost of ownership, including improved quality, pricing and service levels within applicable risk tolerance levels
- Conduct financial analysis of historical spend and cost performance
- Promote the benefits of a comprehensive sourcing strategy within the group

Coordination, Facilitation and Influencing
- Collaborate with different business units to understand complex business, technical, regulatory, service and legal requirements, and translate these into specific RFx requirements across the various scoring categories
- Adhere to standardised systems and controls for IT sourcing (including RFx processes and documentation, follow sourcing and procurement rules and guidelines, RFx execution models, and supplier or contractor selection criteria) to enable the most efficient and effective procurement approach based on investment risk and type of procurement

RFx Process Design and Execution
- Elicit the business service definition, service details, current use statistics, risks and service levels required from the key stakeholders to refine the business requirements and mould the contract (terms and conditions or Statement of Work) to become the basis for bidding
- Evaluate the existing capabilities, suppliers, business requirements and risks identified to determine the most appropriate sourcing strategy
- Enforce standardised RFx systems and controls
Qualifications    
Essential:
Grade 12/Matric

Preferred:

• Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7
• FTI Diploma
• ITIL and / or COBIT

Experience    

• -5 years experience in a similar role
• -Experience in General IT administration and IT SDLC
• -Experience of RFx process design and execution
• -Experience of TCOO models and investment risk

Knowledge and Skills    
Strong knowledge of:

• Sourcing models (Total Cost Analysis)
• IT infrastructure and solution architecture
• IT software and related processes
• IT service management and related processes
• Legal and commercial issues associated with IT contracting
• Statistical analysis techniques
• Cost Accounting