Director: Transversal Contract Management: Head Office – Polokwane Jobs

Duties: Key Performance Areas

• Manage the arrangement of new transversal contracts for implementation by provincial departments and participating public entities.
• Facilitate and manage transversal contracts on behalf of provincial departments and participating public entities.
• Identify commodities for central facilitation.
• Develop business cases for newly identified commodities after conducting commodity analysis, needs analysis, industrial analysis, supplier analysis, and market research.
• Negotiate bulk procurement prices based on the sourcing strategy for each commodity.
• Manage the nomination and appointment of bid committee members by organs of state.
• Oversee the development of bid specifications.
• Handle the management of bid advertisements.
• Manage bid evaluation reports, adjudication reports, and awards.
• Develop service level contracts and master contracts for awarded commodities.
• Manage the development of instruction notes for approved commodities.
• Manage and implement the Strategic Procurement Framework for the province.
• Identify commodities and implement set-asides in line with Chapter 4 of the Public Procurement Act.
• Monitor and provide support for transversal term contracts.
• Manage existing contracts.
• Assess provincial departments and public entities for compliance with transversal contracts using monitoring tools.
• Analyze data collected from monitoring tools.
• Prepare compliance assessment reports for provincial departments and public entities.
• Monitor adherence to master contracts by suppliers and organs of state.
• Monitor adherence to service level agreements by suppliers and organs of state.
• Present compliance assessment reports and corrective measures to provincial departments and public entities.
• Identify projects for funding through Corporate Social Investment (CSI) initiatives influenced by contracts.
• Monitor CSI implementation and ensure proper reporting in annual financial statements.
• Monitor supplier performance for transversal term contracts.
• Develop and review the supplier performance program to assess contracted suppliers.
• Develop and review the supplier performance tool.
• Assess contracted suppliers for compliance using the supplier performance tool.
• Analyze data from the supplier performance tool.
• Compile supplier performance assessment reports.
• Communicate supplier performance reports to contracted suppliers.
• Coordinate supplier development through enterprise funding influenced by contracts.
• Manage resources within the directorate.
• Compile and manage performance agreements.
• Compile and manage performance reviews.
• Submit signed performance agreements to the PDMS Unit.
• Submit signed performance reviews to the PDMS Unit.
• Compile procurement plans for the directorate’s training needs.
• Manage risks within the directorate.
• Identify risks related to each commodity for transversal contracting.
• Manage the directorate’s risk register and develop an action plan.
• Ensure reporting on the directorate’s risk register.

Minimum Requirements

• An NQF level 7 qualification in Supply Chain Management or Financial Management, recognized by SAQA.
• 5 years of working experience at a middle or senior managerial level in a Supply Chain Management environment.
• A valid driver’s license (except for persons with disabilities).

Closing Date: 20 February 2026

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should apply through the Limpopo Provincial Government website.

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