Contract Manager

The Contracts Manager, together with their direct reports, is required to safeguard TRIM’s financial, operational, and legal interests throughout the entire lifecycle of a contract.

• Ensuring strict compliance with Transnet’s Policies, procedures, framework and Legislative frameworks in order to prevent irregular and/or wasteful expenditure.
• Ensuring audit readiness to demonstrate compliance with the above.
• Actively managing agreements from drafting through to close-out, the CM bridges the gap between legal frameworks and day-to-day business operations to maximize commercial value and minimize organizational risk
• To provide a professional, efficient and effective Contract Management service to the business and enhance supplier relationship management.
• This includes knowledge and analysis of services and materials to be placed on contract, ensuring that the contracts concluded, provides the necessary protecting for TRIM.
• Creation of contracts for Legal vetting, securely storing contract and related documents (pre and post award), loading Contracts on SAP/TDPS and the management thereof until expiry.