Our client, a market leading player in the mobile telecommunications industry in Africa have a requirement for a Senior Manager - Supply Chain Functional Excellence who will be working closely with project teams, procurement, operations, supply chain and other supporting functions to ensure that supply chain functional performance is delivering best practice.

Functions & Responsibilities
The Senior Manager for our Supply Chain Functional Excellence department would be responsible for a team of subject matter experts delivering Business Intelligence, Analysis, Contract Risk, Compliance & Audit, Supplier Programme Managers, Supplier Requirements Engineering, Supplier Quality and Supply Chain Risk.

Key accountabilities:
1. Leadership of a group of experts deployed to develop procurement contract structures for a variety of complex goods and services.
2. Owns the development, training and implementation of policies, procedures and processes for the supply chain function.
3. Provide contract risk and compliance oversight to the procurement department.
4. Leadership oversight of Supplier Management strategy development. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies that support successful execution of the projects.
5. Leadership oversight and management of procurement process, subcontract and supply chain audits as required.
6. Leadership of a group of experts to support to complex subcontract negotiations and produce playbooks/training materials for procurement teams.
7. Establishes operating plan for procurement risk and compliance assessment activities and performs to plan.
8. Leadership interface between procurement and legal department on subcontract strategies and subcontract risk management.
9. Leadership of expert support to assessments and the development of recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions related to subcontract claims and disputes.
10. Reporting of functional level commercial risks and implications to project managers, regional managers, and senior executives
11. Lead the evaluate and refinement of Business Intelligence goals, business objectives, decision support needs, data and performance requirements to meet business objectives
12. Leadership and influence with other functions in an integrated team environment to drive the need to develop procurement specifications and statements of work for a variety of complex goods and services.

Knowledge:
Applies advanced job principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards. Recognised as a job expert within the company.
Problem Solving:
Works on unusually complex problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
Discretion:
Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work is checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a superior.
Impact:
Develops advanced processes and guides their development into final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve critical organisational objectives and affect the organisation's risk exposure and image.
Liaison:
Acts as advisor to management and customers on subcontract risk elements.

Masters' Law Degree or equivalent and 15 years’ experience working with contracts and subcontracts.Experience in Contract Risk & Compliance, Functional Audit, Policy & Procedure, Advanced Negotiation, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Contracting & Programme Management

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