Key performance areas

• Manage, undertake and review the monitoring, analyses and determination of actions to ensure proper contract administration.
• Administer variations to contracts.
• Evaluate applications for price adjustments and invoke penalty clauses.
• Evaluate applications for variations, amendments and cancelations and develop proposals for approval.
• Undertake dispute resolution and ensure that all documentation is prepared and available to resolve disputes.
•  Maintain proper relationship with suppliers within the code of ethics to ensure deliver off goods/services.
• Manage the coordination, review and monitoring of contract compliance by
• determine whether product/services are delivered at the right time, of the right
• quantity, right products, right place, right conditions, right quality and right
• price according to the contract.
• Understanding of the government legislations of Supply Chain Management
• Manage the performance of transversal contracts
• Manage the Identification of common commodities for Provincial Departments and Entities.
• Develop business case for transversal commodities
• Manage and maintain internal and external customer relations
• Manage the application of Supply Chain Management (SCM) prescripts
• Manage the signing of Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Manage the rolling-out of contracts
• Documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments to contract
• Manage the compilation and maintenance of supplier contracts register
• Manage the contract life cycle
• Manage and administer variations and implement price increase as per the SLA.
• Manage the performance of suppliers
• Manage the performance of departments and public entities on their contractual obligations.
• Manage the implementation of the contracts by departments and public entities
• Manage the cancellation of contract for nonperforming suppliers
• Manage supplier payments
• Report potential restrictions of suppliers to National Treasury
• Manage the safeguarding and record keeping of contracts for audit purpose
• Compile commitments report to assist with budgeting, IFS and AFS.
• Manage the close out of contracts and ensure lessons learned are clearly documented

Manage the component

• Perform strategic and operational planning
• Manage stakeholder relationships
• Oversee the administrative support functions
• Perform people management functions.
• Perform financial management functions.
• Perform asset management functions

Requirements

Minimum appointment requirements

• NQF Level 7 in SCM/Financial Management/ Legal Qualification (Bcom Law or Paralegal)
• 3 years’ experience of junior management in contract management
• Valid driver’s license and own reliable vehicle