ESD Analyst - Analytics & Reporting

Job description

Execute repeatable core business processes and/or technical transactions with a focus on efficiency, first-time quality and overall continuous process improvement.

Be part of the New. Now.
Unleash your skills and transform the world around you. To win in today's market and ensure future viability, it is essential that organizations capture value quickly, change direction at pace, share and deliver new products and services, and maximize the use of “always on” intelligence to sense, predict and act on changing customer and market developments. Be part of a team that helps clients to transform their operations—to harness talent, data and intelligence—to deliver the right information where and when it's needed, so they can See More, Do More and Be More.

Purpose of the Job
· As an ESD Analyst (Preferential Procurement) your role will be to provide support to the ESD Lead in specific areas relating to the development and implementation of the clients' ESD strategy.
· You will be required to take full responsibility of the monthly, quarterly and annual preferential procurement spend reporting by analyzing clients' spend reports in line with DTI B-BBEE requirements.
· You will be required to take full responsibility of all project administration, preparation of corporate engagements and ESD related reporting activities.
· You will be required to integrate into the supply chain team, gaining full visibility of sourcing initiatives to identify potential ESD opportunities and other supply chain requests such as market research as well as providing input to the client's ESD digital platform while driving continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:
· Perform all administration associated with the ESD function which includes preparation of minutes of meetings, agendas and meeting packs
· Integrate with supply chain to ensure that there is consistent implementation, monitoring and reporting of ESD through efficient tracking systems and reporting processes
· Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual gap analysis in line with legislative compliance reporting and liaise with sourcing and procurement teams to develop response plan to close gaps
· Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual spend reports in line with legislative compliance spend reporting for sourcing and procurement teams
· Co-ordinate data collection for monthly dashboard reporting
· Support research efforts for opportunity identification for ESD and B-BBEE transactions with strategic and tactical suppliers, and new entrants in the market across selected commodities
· Prepare SWOT, industry, value chain and competitor analysis when required
· Assist in the preparation of ESD proposals and presentations
· Where required, aid in supply and demand analysis for category sourcing events
· Prepare the ESD and B-BBEE sections of supply chain's Sourcing Strategies, RFQs and RFPs and oversee the execution of end to end ESD initiative implementation
· Manage information / content on the ESD digital platform when required which will be key to interacting with the local communities and enabling them to access the clients' ESD support initiatives
· Extract requests that originate from the ESD Digital Platform when required, segment the requests and obtain sign off from the client to proceed with requests
· Collect required documentation when required from beneficiaries and validate as per the company's vendor management process
· Coordinate the process of adding a subset of new suppliers to the vendor management system
· Obtain approval from the vendor management committees to add new ESD Suppliers
· Create and manage partnerships with third party service providers that will be tasked with the implementation of SME support initiatives
· Track implementation of ESD support initiatives across a sub-set of the client's operations and collate reports as required by the client
· Conduct and support select ESD training initiatives for ESD policies and procedures to drive compliance across the client's operations
· Ensure that the client's ESD supplier database is constantly updated and that the SLAs are current

Desired profile

Qualifications :

·  Essential - Relevant Bachelor's Degree (3years / 360 Credits)
·  3-5 Years' experience in Supply Chain
·  CIPS qualification will be an added advantage
·  Knowledge of PPPFA, BBBEE and other applicable legislation relevant to energy / petroleum / gas industry
·  Supply Chain and Procurement in Enterprise and Supplier Development