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Commodity Specialist

Details

Location: 

Johannesburg, ZA

Date:  1 Oct 2025
Reference:  141833

Job Classification

Job Requisition: 141833
TA Specialist: Refilwe Falatsi
Closing Date: 13 October 2025
Location: 135 Rivonia Campus, Sandton
Cluster: Personal and Private Banking | Nedbank Insurance | Operations
Please Note: Preference will be given to applicants from Underrepresented Groups

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose

To analyse; identify; source; negotiate and manage the procurement process while mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance and develop and implement commodity strategies aligned with Groups strategy and build relationship with stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

  • Analyse trends by reviewing management information.
  • Assisting stakeholders with budget forecasting by providing commodity information.
  • Identifying opportunities to develop sourcing strategy that will result in cost saving by benchmarking and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensure that preferential procurement BBBEE targets are aligned to the Financial Sector Charter (FSC) as determined by the Department of Trade and Industry code of good practice.
  • Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives.
  • Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
  • Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
  • Develop and maintain policies by understanding and collaborating with stakeholders to determine practical processes.
  • Mitigating risks by ensuring that policies and regulatory and industry governance requirements are adhered to.
  • Selection of preferred suppliers by conducting a tender or quotation process.
  • Drafting and signing of contracts by liaising with Group Legal and stakeholders.
  • Ensuring SLA's are met through end to end management of the contract (includes supplier relationship and performance management).
  • Measure local procurement and environmental objectives against Nedbank's transformational objectives by conducting surveys or reviewing management information.
  • Identifying business requirements by engaging with internal stakeholders to understand business needs.
  • Collaboration with stakeholders to implement the sourcing strategy by coordinating workshops; presentations and meetings.
  • Exchange of information between stakeholders to achieve the procurement objective by sharing management information.
  • Manage and maintain internal and external stakeholder relationships by conducting regular engagements. Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions.
  • Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
  • Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers.
  • Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
  • Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.

Job Responsibilities Continue

People Specification

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

BCom

CIPS is highly beneficial

Essential Certifications

    Minimum Experience Level

    3 years procurement experience within the Insurance environment

    Technical / Professional Knowledge

    • Administrative procedures and systems
    • Banking knowledge
    • Banking procedures
    • Business principles
    • Business terms and definitions
    • Data analysis
    • Relevant regulatory knowledge
    • Relevant software and systems knowledge
    • Governance, Risk and Controls

    Behavioural Competencies

    • Decision Making
    • Continuous Improvement
    • High-Impact Communication
    • Managing Work
    • Sustaining Customer Satisfaction
    • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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