Purchasing Advisor

3 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa De Beers Group of Companies Full time

Company Description
- We’re re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. That includes the lives of everyone who works for Anglo American. We strive to be a great company where employees are happy, inspired to do their best work. A place where every colleague can grow, develop and realise their potential. To live up to our Always with Purpose employee value proposition, we’re putting the development and growth of colleagues first by ensuring everyone at Anglo American has the career experience they deserve.

**Job Description
- Please note that this is a 3-month fixed term role**

Provide support with the purchasing activities to ensure that they are completed in a timely and cost-effective way, meeting agreed technical requirements and service levels, and providing implementation support to the team to ensure that all risk and compliance measures are adhered to.

**Key responsibilities**:
Safety, Health & Environment
- Identify ways to support specific safety, health & sustainability opportunities and risks and ensure transactional logistics activities complies with all Safety, Health & Environmental requirements.
- Ensure the safe operation of the Physical Supply Chain environment, performing regular risk assessments, monitoring safety performance, and addressing any risks/issues immediately
- Comply with relevant policies and standards and particularly the Contractor Performance Management policy & procedures to enable achievement of gold-standard contractor safety performance

Delivery & Performance

General
- Adhere to the relevant Supply Chain strategy and ensure that critical tasks, performance targets, plans and budgets are adhered to with due consideration of risk identification
- Embrace an agile Supply Chain by being adaptive and flexible to accommodate and focus on emerging and changing business priorities

Supply Chain Strategy, Critical Tasks, Targets
- Manage the estimation instructions that are provided to supplier
- Provide guidance to the Repairs Analyst (Repairs Buyer) regarding the management of returned items that are beyond economical repair for scrapping
- Track and report on purchasing performance levels for procurement activities and identify relevant improvement opportunities
- Monitor the risk and compliance measures implemented by the team within the purchasing area of focus

Sustainability & Social
- Ensure Sourcing rules applied within Purchasing are aligned with Anglo American Sustainability and Social requirements
- Support the Anglo American sustainable value creation strategies, initiatives and associated business cases, that advance Anglo American technical, community, sustainability, and financial ambitions

Purchasing Excellence & Automation
- Identify improvements in the execution of purchasing processes and implement accordingly
- Recommend changes to purchasing channel usage

Stakeholder Engagement
- Maintain effective working relationships with suppliers, and resolve issues where required
- Provide feedback where deliveries with due dates do not meet operational requirements
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities
- Ensure alignment to agreed supplier selection guidelines

Communities & Inclusive Procurement
- Understand community specific needs and identify value creation opportunities to address these
- Drive a culture of community development and inclusive procurement with stakeholders that are aligned to the global and regional Inclusive Procurement strategies
- Support the team to identify supplier development needs and opportunities, and provide input into the development of solutions

People & Teams
- Drive own performance management and personal learning
- Embrace a Supply Chain team culture of diversity and inclusiveness
- Collaborate with the CoE to develop and implement a regional Logistics people capability framework and development plan and be responsible for implementing the plan in the region
- Support cross functional team interactions with internal stakeholders to execute logistics activities

Governance & Compliance
- Ensure personal and team compliance to internal Anglo American and Supply Chain Governance requirements pertaining to all materials planning activities
- Ensure personal and team compliance to applicable legislative requirements pertaining to all Physical Supply Chain Management activities in set portfolio

**Qualifications**:

- An undergraduate qualification - Bachelor degree level or equivalent, alternatively relevant tertiary qualification and proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
- Desirable: A postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

**EXPERIENCE**
- Transactional Purchasing Execution
- SAP Purchasing
- Data analysis and reporting
- Continuous improvement methodology

**Additional Information
- What we offer**
- When you join Anglo American,

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