Specialist: Technology and Digital Procurement Support

Key Performance Areas

Provide ICT Expertise on Project Requirements or Specifications in Line wit RAF ERP

• Examine avoidable options for the procurement of Goods, services and work required through the procurement process.
• Package options for ITC requirements to achive economies of scale.
• Assess ICT project requirements and provide recommendations/ reviews for efficiency .
• Analyse ICT projects on the procurement plan and ensure that projects of similar nature are consolidated for efficiency.
• Analyse tranversal contracts in line with RAF ICT projects and provide value add recommendations/inputs.

Ensure ICT Procurement Compliance

• Conduct market analysis on the current trends and or replacements of the requirements including recommending particpation on similar projects as arranged by Sita or national treasury for RAF cost efficiency.
• Compare solutions, pricing, sustainability factors, and technical maturity.
• Validate technical alignment with enterprise architecture and existing systems.
• Ensure risks, constraints, and integration considerations are captured and compliant.

Risk Management

• Identify risk related to poorly defined ICT requirements.
• Assess the likelihood of cost overruns, scope creep.
• Analyse trends across quality assurance findings to identify emerging risks pattern.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Align tenders with enterprise ICT strategy.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.
• Assist BU's in developing sourcing strategy in line with DMP.

Reporting

• Report on quality assurance findings and outcomes.
• Report on the adequacy and effectiveness of ICT procurement processes, controls, and documentation.
• Identify process weaknesses, gaps, or inconsistencies across the procurement lifecycle.
• Provide trend analysis on recurring quality issues

Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate stakeholder participation in governance structures.
• Enable stakeholders to make defensible and strategically sound ICT procurement decisions.
• Manage stakeholder disagreements to ensure that procurement progress is not delayed.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Supply Chain Management/ ICT related qualification.
• Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply CIPS would be an added advantage.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years' experience in ICT procurement environment.
• Experience in conducting quality assurance in the procurement of ICT goods and services.
• Experience with SAP Procurement module or similar ERP systems.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Resilience.
• Network and alliance.
• Employee engagement.
• Ethics and values.
• Change management.
• Critical and innovative thinking
• Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
• Risk Management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Understanding of ICT environments, sourcing of ICT goods/services.
• Knowledge of South African ICT procurement regulatory frameworks.
• Knowledge of ERP layout and environment.
• Knowledge of ICT commodities.
• Knowledge of procurement best practices including sourcing strategies and the different mechanisms for procurement.
• Sound understanding of management accounting and budget and forecasting capabilities as it relates to optimal expenditure management.
• Understanding of cash flow management and executing strategies to manage cash flow.
• Understanding of economy and markets.
• ICT procurement processes and methodologies.
• ICT contracts, licensing models, and vendor agreements.
• Procurement governance and compliance requirements.
• Collaborative and solution driven