Contracts Advisor

**Company Description
- You’re talented and adaptable. That’s why you’ll fit in.**

As well as mining and processing many of the essential raw materials that enable, support and enhance modern life, Anglo American through its Marketing, arm, is a global trading and marketing business, managing significant volume in the physical and paper commodity markets including base metals, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and freight, as well as adjacent products, such as energy and scrap steel. We offer innovative solutions to meet our customers’ specific challenges. This includes physical products, logistics and technical support, as well as pricing, financing and risk management solutions.

To deliver the full benefits from an integrated planning and logistics process in a highly complex commercial environment such as Iron Ore, it is essential to define and manage the end-to-end interfaces across the business through a specialized multi-skilled operations team. All commercial and logistics processes, from mine to port logistics, need to be considered in this integrated holistic approach across all time horizons from strategic to operational.

**Job Description
- PURPOSE**

Provide day to day commercial contract administration whilst supporting the Commercial and Growth Manager on the long-term objectives of the Integrated Iron Ore Logistics Channel for Kumba in South Africa.

**KEY TASKS**

**Performance & Delivery**
- Monitor commercial relationships with contractors (especially Transnet).
- Support the Transnet contract execution, including invoices, reporting, and monitoring all agreements (e.g. Private siding, SLAs, Water supply, etc.)
- Support the development of negotiations strategy/plan for Kumba with supplier or contractor.
- Support expansions negotiation & contractual agreement development.
- Compile Service Level Agreements (SLA) with contractors after initial negotiations.
- Monitor compliance of contractual agreements - coordinate inputs from others on SLA compliance.
- Escalate non-compliance to agreed service levels and support appropriate resolution.
- Execute logístical support for expansion projects.

**Stakeholder management**
- Build and maintain relationship with Transnet at the overall Iron Ore Export Channel level.

**Qualifications**:

- Specific Knowledge requirements:
**Operations**
- Freight, shipping, and supply chain (Planning, Processing, Logistics) preferably within a complex industry environment
- Broader mining business
- Port, rail, and train load out (RLT) or alternative transport operations
- Rail and port operations
- An understanding of dynamic planning and distribution and supply chains

**Commercial**:

- Legal / contract management
- Rail and port regulatory, commercial, and operational frameworks

**Additional Information
- Who we are**

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.

As a responsible miner - of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel - we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

**What we offer**
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Amazing opportunities for learning and growth - from technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our people
- We’re a large, successful multinational company and there are plenty of opportunities internally to move onwards and upwards too

**Inclusion and Diversity**

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

**How to apply**

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