Purchasing Coordinator

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa De Beers Group of Companies Full time

Company Description
- Anglo American’s purpose is to reimagine mining to improve people’s lives and is committed to creating a Living Mine that brings positive value to the people and environment where we operate.

Supply Chain is positioning itself for the future, by becoming more purpose-driven in aid of realising the Anglo American purpose and driving to be more agile and resilient. Central to being more purpose-driven is delivering significantly more positive impact within our host communities, acting as supplier interface to provide velocity to our innovation, technical & sustainability change programme, that includes improved safety performance and the embedment of circular economy principles, as well as overall delivery of significantly more sustainable value. To build a more agile and resilient Supply Chain the commoditized execution and digitalisation of processes is a key focus whilst driving operational excellence.

The commercial team is responsible for the end-to-end management of all procurement activities within the South African region, including Regional Category Management, Sourcing & Contracts, Project Procurement and Purchasing. The team works with regional business and Supply Chain stakeholders to implement and manage performance of contracts and suppliers, grow the host community supply base and ensure effective supply of goods and services required for operations.

The purchasing team is responsible for the allocation of Source-of-Supply to purchasing requests, using a combination of automation and manual methods; management of the end-to-end transactional execution of Purchase Orders, driving for on time delivery of goods and service; delivering ongoing improvement in Purchasing to maximize first time right orders, improving user experience, reduce cycle time while maintaining appropriate risk and compliance in the end-to-end process.

**Job Description**:

- Manage the coordination of reporting and data analytics activities provided to the BU Supply Chain team, ensuring an accurate and relevant view of Purchasing performance at a BU and asset level.
- Provide input into the Purchasing strategy and provide insights on performance targets and improvement priorities
- 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 _
- Understand regional strategic priorities and develop relevant purchasing strategies to support business needs
- Track and monitor regional purchasing performance levels to drive the strategic sustainability of the end-to-end (from receipt of purchasing requests until close-out of purchase orders) purchasing function
- Identify improvements and provide input to help establish the Purchasing improvement plan and initiatives
- Coordinate the implementation of Purchasing improvement initiatives
- Implement value creation and supplier engagement strategies that align to the overall global Supply Chain strategy, critical tasks, performance targets and Business Unit priorities
- Purchasing Excellence & Automation _
- Build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders like Information Management, Global Shared Services and other service providers to deliver best-in-class Purchasing solutions
- Provide specialist support to drive effective change through the organisation that will promote the use and adoption of processes and system solutions.
- Collaborate with operational excellence teams across sites to identify and monitor issues, support definition of improvement plans and engage regional continuous improvement teams for support.
- Provide insights and recommendations based on data analytics in order to improve the current Purchasing performance status.
- Support the feedback loop for Business Unit and asset Operating Model processes, providing analysed and coordinated data.
- Conduct broad scanning activities to keep up to date with innovative approaches and opportunities.
- Ensure data analysis and benchmarking promotes and supports continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Engagement _
- Manage and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers, and resolve issues where required
- Support the team to resolve and reschedule deliveries with due dates that do not meet operational requirements
- Review supplier feedback and determine synergies of activities
- Review delivery performance and identify continuous improvement opportunities

**Qualifications**:

- 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

**Experience**:Practical experience in relevant field

**_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 _

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