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What will you do?

• This career opportunity is available at Santam for the Group Procurement department that provides procurement support to the Sanlam Group. The role is based in Tygervalley, Cape Town.   
• This role will primarily manage and co-ordinate IT and IT related services across the Santam Group. This role will be responsible for executing strategic category management that will drive cost efficiencies, compliance, drive procurement value and enhance stakeholder experience.
• The successful candidate will engage with multiple senior business partners to ensure a common understanding and consistent application of our procurement policy and processes. The procurement manager will ensure all procurement deliverables and milestones are met within the required timelines, budget, scope and quality.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Classification of spend and detailed analysis of spend for Santam Technology Services (Information Technology).  
• Development of procurement business cases for related Santam Technology Services categories
• Initiate procurement initiatives and development of approved category plans.   
• Sourcing and contracting management of commodities within the category procurement portfolio.  
• Cost management & savings against agreed budgets.
• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and show acumen towards driving new initiatives.  
• Manage supplier relationships; manage contracted database and new contracts. Ensure necessary compliance processes are adhered to.  
• Manage and maintain various reporting platforms and validate system integrity and data quality.  
• Internal stakeholder management between procurement, operations/business and clients.  
• Attend and provide support in required Cross Functional Sourcing Team meetings.  

Support and deliver on strategic business initiatives that result in the following outcomes:

• Cost savings  
• Providing Client Delight in terms of optimal supply of service;
• Providing “Best Practice” procurement processes to increase efficiency; and  
• Supporting and upholding a team culture of engagement.  
• Achieve transformation goals and objectives.

Qualification and Experience

• BComm (preferable) or equivalent with any other relevant post graduate qualifications 
• Admitted Attorney with LLB or any recognised legal degree is advantageous
• Significant experience in negotiating and drafting various IT contracts i.e. SaaS, SLA’s, MSA’s etc.
• Member of Charted Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) and/or Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Minimum of 10 years practical experience in procurement and/or supply chain environment in financial services industry 
• Experience with Information Technology and InsureTech Procurement 
• Experience in sourcing, contracting and supplier management across multiple spend categories.
• Experience in the development and implementation of procurement policies, processes and benchmarking
• International experience on Procurement projects will be advantageous.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent ability to interact and work cross functionally within organization  
• Strong planning and organizing skills    
• Problem solving skills   
• Project and Change management skills     
• Ability to perform under pressure and deadlines  
• Presentation skills and excellent communication skills
• Strong negotiating skills & ability to drive & achieve results  
• Team leadership skills
• Commercial and business acumen
• Vendor management 

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What will you do?

• Santam’s Group Procurement team have positions available for Contracts Officers based in Tygervalley, Cape Town.
• The role is responsible for implementing and maintaining procurement, service and supply contracts in line with the requirements of the relevant commodity objectives with the emphasis on contract maintenance and stakeholder management.  
• The Contracts Officer will be responsible for the sourcing, negotiation, awarding, administration, and overall management of contracts.  

What will make you successful in this role?

• Implementation and administration of supplier contracts within relevant structures to enable an optimum procurement environment.
• Assist the Sourcing Specialist or Procurement Manager with procurement related tasks. 
• Manage one or more commodities, commodity groups or portion of a commodity on their own (depending on ability, experience & training).

Creation and maintenance of supplier agreements:

• Draft the contract using standard wording/clauses.
• Maintain contracts including all administration such as amendment of contracts using standard wording/clauses in terms of, supplier detail changes, price changes.
• Ensure system updates occur with the relevant contract pricing terms & conditions (Business rules), and other criteria for internal and external users.
• Ensure all ongoing changes to contracts are loaded to the system.

Assist Sourcing Specialist / Procurement Manager with or be responsible for management of procurement commodities:

• Analyse and determine commodities spend and if sufficient volume or other criteria exists, initiate the sourcing process. [Business Case Analysis]
• Determine potential suppliers. [Market Scanning & Analysis]
• Drafts request for proposal (RFP) using standard wording/clauses. [system based]
• Issue and coordinate RFP process. [Initiation to completion]
• Adjudicate on RFP responses to determine most suitable suppliers.
• Test the market on a pre-determined cyclical basis by issuing further RFP documentation on existing contracted and new potential supply base whereby the full selection to contract process starts again.
• Administrating diversity of supply base and monitoring direction of spend against agreed performance targets. 
• Obtain required approval on supplier selection recommendation.
• Negotiate and award contract to preferred suppliers based on “Value” decision (dependent on signing authority).
• Manage and administrate supplier’s contract compliance in terms of Quality, Service and Price performance detail (roll up of transactional data from system and Santam Quality department).
• Ensure all ongoing changes to contracts are loaded to the procurement system.

Qualification and Experience

• Matric/ Grade 12
• Procurement qualification [CIPS or studying towards a CIPS qualification] or other relevant Diploma or B. Comm Supply Chain Management. 
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a procurement role. 

Skills

• Communication (Written and Verbal): Is able to communicate clearly, enthusiastically and in an articulate manner.  
• Interpersonal Skills: Building networks and good relations: Relates to people across organisational levels and boundaries, builds networks and profitable partnerships. Show understanding of needs; is attentive and responsive; show honesty and integrity in dealing with people.
• Issue resolution: The ability to identify issues and risks and implement the relevant mitigating actions.
• Vendor management: Manage supplier relationships, developing supplier programs, and identifying continuous improvement initiatives. Tracks supplier spend and provide feedback to necessary stakeholders.
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Stakeholder relationship management 
• Networking
• Analysing and ability to identify opportunity/ challenges

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What will you do?

• This career opportunity is available at Santam for the Group Procurement department, the role is based in Bellville, Cape Town.    
• This role will primarily support Procurement Managers in executing procurement strategies across the Sanlam Group This role will form part of the Category Procurement team particularly in Strategic Projects.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Classification of spend and detailed analysis of spend.   
• Development of procurement business cases.  
• Initiate procurement initiatives and development of approved category plans.   
• Sourcing and contracting management of commodities within the procurement portfolio.   
• Management of costs and achieve savings against the budget.   
• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and show acumen towards driving new initiatives.   
• Manage supplier relationships; manage contracted database and new contracts. Ensure necessary compliance processes are adhered to.  
• Manage and maintain various reporting platforms and validate system integrity and data quality.  
• Internal stakeholder management between procurement, operations/business and clients.  
• Attend and provide support in required Cross Functional Sourcing Team meetings.  
• Support the relevant procurement managers in ad hoc duties.  

This will result in the following outcomes:

• Cost savings  
• Providing Client Delight in terms of optimal supply of service; 
• Providing “Best Practice” procurement processes to increase efficiency; and  
• Supporting and upholding a team culture of Engagement.  

Qualification and Experience

• Member of Charted Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) with level 4/5 or equivalent CIPS is beneficial.
• BComm (preferable) or equivalent being a Procurement Qualification with other relevant qualifications.  
• Experience in sourcing, contracting and supplier management across multiple spend categories.  
• Minimum of 5 years practical experience in procurement and/or supply chain environment (Preferable) in financial services sector or related.  

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent ability to interact and work cross functionally within organization  
• Strong planning and organizing skills  
• Strong supplier / market analysis skills  
• Problem solving skills   
• Project management skills  
• Contract management and administration skills   
• Ability to perform under pressure and deadlines  
• Presentation skills and excellent communication skills