Senior Commercial Specialist - P3

Sandvik Group; Kempton Park; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in mining equipment seeks a Senior Commercial Specialist to minimize risks in contracts and protect profitability. The role requires strong commercial knowledge, contract management skills, and a BCom Law or LLB, alongside experience in the mining or construction sectors.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience in the mining or construction industry.
• Background in Commercial, Legal, Supply Chain, or Finance is beneficial.
• Good demonstrable knowledge of commercial and clerical principles.

Responsibilities

• Review customer contracts and produce qualifications in conjunction with legal.
• Manage sound business relationships with internal and external customers.
• Ensure compliance with commercial minimum requirements.

Skills

Commercial Knowledge

Legal Understanding

Supply Chain Principles

Finance Basics

Advanced MS Word

Advanced Excel

Advanced PowerPoint

Education

Bachelors Degree – BCom Law / LLB Law

Tools

Salesforce (CRM)

Job description

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a global leading supplier in equipment and tools, parts, service and technical solutions for the mining and infrastructure industries. Applications include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. We are proud to be recognized on the Forbes Top 50 Global Employers List.

The Role:

The purpose of the Senior Commercial Specialist role is to assist in minimizing contractual, commercial, and financial risks in business deals and thus protect the profitability of the business. The Senior Commercial Specialist ensures adherence to company policies and guidelines (legal, commercial, and compliance), safeguarding contractual integrity and mitigating legal, commercial, compliance & financial risks and involves the proactive management of contracts to protect Sandvik's interests as well as minimize/eliminate the potential for legal disputes emanating from customer contracts.

Key Performance Areas:

• Review customer contracts/terms and conditions and produce qualifications in conjunction with legal.
• Ensure that the customer-facing documents (including quotations/proposals and contracts) are developed in alignment between the Sales and the relevant product areas and in line with the Global processes.
• Ensure that the Contract Owner registers the customer-facing documents in the Contract Management System (contracts only) in a timely manner.
• Participate and guide stakeholders in customer negotiations
• Ensure that the customer-facing documents are drafted in line with all local and global policies and standards to ensure the lowest level of risk for Sandvik, and the highest quality of customer document
• Ensure that the Commercial Management Dashboard is up to date and there are no commercially non-compliant contracts and where there are, that the non-compliance is rectified.
• Manage sound business relationships with internal and external customers
• Ensure compliance with Commercial minimum requirements.
• Ensure contract owners and managers comply with commercial compliance requirements.

Your Profile:

• Bachelors Degree – BCom Law / LLB Law
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in the mining or construction industry
• Background in Commercial, Legal, Supply Chain, or Finance will be beneficial
• Good demonstrable knowledge of commercial and clerical principles.
• Advanced MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Salesforce (CRM) is an asset
• Experience working in a matrix environment will be advantageous

Sandvik is an equal opportunity employer, striving for practices and programs that are bias free and in which employees are treated fairly to ensure fair opportunity with the best outcome for every individual securing no discrimination on grounds including but not limited to, age, gender, gender expression, race, ethnicity, language, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. To ensure an inclusive, equitable and diverse work environment where people can develop and perform well, our focus areas are: great leadership, lifelong learning & development, career opportunities & open job market and safe & fair work environment.