Vendor Analyst at Norton Rose Fulbright (2020-01 – 2021-10)
Working in a global company and global capacity and the associated complexity on stakeholder & commercial management, global vendor management embarking on a major programme within the business and IT to provide excellence in the global processes and systems
- Manage end to end in-life contract changes for tail end suppliers in close collaboration with global and regional procurement teams as appropriate
- Review and manage spend against budget to provide a good financial control
- To tail end suppliers, manage SLA/KPI and collate information on those suppliers in monthly supplier dashboards in order to provide a holistic view of supplier performance
- Adhere to agreed supplier governance / chair regular supplier relationship management governance meetings to ensure any supplier relationship, delivery, quality or commercial issues are highlighted and resolved.
- Assist with creating and maintaining financial model including contract changes to provide accurate forecasts of spend total cost of ownership, contract cost to complete, phasing of spend, build of detailed budgets
- Financial management of tail end suppliers managing indexation / foreign exchange variation, rate card validation and change
- Consolidate those tail end vendors who are providing services or goods that could be replaced with other offerings in the market, particularly with our strategic suppliers
- Manage supplier commercial issues and negotiate their settlement to avoid escalation of such commercial issues into legal dispute.
- Drive actions, minutes, management pack preparation and associated execution from the vendor and internal governance forums
- Management against budgets including authorising spend against that budget tracking actual spend to provide good financial control over commercial performance.
- Modelling contracted charges including contract changes to provide accurate forecasts of spend total cost of ownership, contract cost to complete, phasing of spend, build of detailed budgets
Project Procurement Administrator at AECOM (2018-02 – 2019-06)
- Request potential suppliers and sub-consultants to complete the AECOM questionnaire
- Capture information provided by potential suppliers and sub-consultants in the information system - Sharepoint
- Monthly reporting
- Update governance documentation
- Liaise with AECOM project managers on the status of pre-qualification process
Procurement – Buyer at Bidvest Facilities Management (2017-06 – 2017-10)
Performed a role as a buyer of goods and services for 14 clients, relating to the client's facilities requirements. By performing procurement buying with the role including the following responsibilities:
- Purchase materials, equipment and related and general office supplies
- Order management – Manage Purchase to Pay transactions, Exception management, Non-catalogue order execution
- ID of price and quantity variances
- Ensure overall management of RFP process (obtain quotes, evaluate and award)
- Manage purchase requests- Train on purchasing procedures and assist end-users in initiating requisitions. Resolve purchase issues between requestor and vendor.
- Generating and processing orders on SAP
- Identification of potential new items for coding- Registration of new items on SAP which are aligned with existing contracts.
- Confer with the internal customer on their needs and preferences.
- Vendor registration for Bidvest compliant vendors
Procurement Buyer at T-systems (2015-03 – 2017-05)
On boarded as an Intern and shortly acquired the role of Administrator and excelled to a Buyer with the Procurement department. Understanding the business processes of T-systems locally and internationally, to provide the South African market with world-class IT and communication solutions. With the role including the following responsibilities:
- Internal Contract management repository, entails loading of contracts, uploading of suppliers, perform e-Auctions for framework orders, to create transparency throughout all LBU's of the company
- Requesting 3 quotations and send out the best price & best negotiated value for the end user.
- Managing the buying of different commodities Software and Hardware, Services and Marketing commodities.
- Perform e-Auctions for suppliers on internal system - OneSource
- Provide routine administrative support.
- Placing orders on multiple vendors
- Requesting of BBBEE certificates from vendors & update on SAP
- Maintain good interpersonal relations with vendors and partners
- Liaising and advices internal customers and suppliers relating to acquiring pricing with the correct specifications to provide best value
- Management of suppliers within assigned commodities
- Ensures compliance with compliance regulations of T-systems.
- Confer with the internal customer on their needs and preferences.
- Spend report on active and inactive suppliers.
- Provide adequate administration to bid adjudication processes.
- Planning and organising product training for employees on our reseller database.
- Managing cost negotiations in an effective manner
