MRP Analyst

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 the role is for a 6-month fixed term contract.**

This role will primarily focus on data collection and analysis of information regarding demand forecasting and inventory management and conduct material requirements planning (MRP) activities to enable optimal inventory levels that meet service level targets

**Key responsibilities**:
**Safety, Health & Environment**
- Support specific safety, health & sustainability opportunities and risks and ensure materials planning activities complies with all Safety, Health & Environmental requirements.
- Perform regular risk assessments and raise any risks/issues immediately
- Comply with relevant policies and standards 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**
- Implement the Materials Plan to meet end-user requirements and ensure optimal inventory levels
- Conduct reliable MRP analysis and forecasting models to inform category decisions across the region
- Promote adherence to the standards and guidelines for inventory management
- Execute the fulfilment modes for material segments/items
- Support the working capital optimization opportunities for execution e.g. disposal of excess and obsolete stock
- Carry out effective MRP activities like back order, stock out, material reservation, exceptions, excess stock, availability, shortfalls etc to meet end-user requirements at optimal inventory levels
- Adhere to the standards and guidelines for inventory management
- Execute the fulfilment modes for material segments/items
- Upload the correct master data parameters for new and existing items
- Raise visibility of optimization opportunities for execution e.g. disposal of excess and obsolete stock
- Update MRP system parameters (min and max reorder point) on a weekly basis based on analysis of information
- Escalate issues like supplier late delivery, emergency orders etc

**Planning**
- Adhere to the inventory optimization plans, schedules and execute relevant activities in a timely and visible manner
- Sustainability & Social
- Support the implementation of inventory optimization initiatives to minimize wastage at the operations to minimize Anglo American’s carbon footprint
- Support the implementation of network optimization opportunities to guide logistics providers in order to reduce transportation frequency which also contributes to the positive impact on the environment

**Commercial Value Delivery**
- Actively undertake research, broad scanning, benchmarking and best practice analysis aimed at ultimately producing better results
- Provide necessary analytical support required for proper MRP planning and inventory control
- Support the roll-out of the Anglo American Operating Model and cross-site best practice sharing, to leverage tangible working capital benefits

**Relationship Management**
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers
- Evaluate supplier performance, handle queries and escalate critical issues

**People & Teams**
- Drive own performance management and personal learning
- Embrace a Supply Chain team culture of diversity and inclusiveness
- Support cross functional team interactions with internal stakeholders to execute MRP activities

**Governance & Compliance**
- Ensure personal and team compliance to internal Anglo American and Supply Chain Governance requirements pertaining to all Physical Supply Chain Management 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 practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
- Desirable: Practical experience in relevant field or a role of similar context and complexity

**EXPERIENCE**
- Experience with working capital optimization,
- Experience with managing demand with supply
- Experience with lead time management
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