Supply Chain Manager

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.

An effective & efficient Supply Chain is integral to the success of Anglo American operations across the globe. At Supply Chain, we deliver sustainable value and supply efficiency for our operations by leveraging our global scale, physical infrastructure, integrated systems and supplier partnerships with both global multi-nationals to host community suppliers.

Supply Chain also plays an important role in strengthening the safety performance across our business by selecting the right suppliers, managing their safety performance, introducing supplier safety innovation and maintaining safety across supply chain.

The onsite Supply Chain Manager is dedicated to managing the interface between Supply Chain and the business and will interact extensively with BU operational representatives as well as other Supply Chain teams. The role will ensure business needs and priorities are understood and reflected in Supply Chain plans and priorities, provide Supply Chain representation and leadership at a site & BU level, facilitate resolution of issues and drive continuous improvement to enable the delivery of business ambitions and value for the asset.

The Supply Chain Manager will drive Supply Chain Operational Excellence through successful implementation of contracts, resolution/escalation of supplier performance issues and supporting Global and Regional commercial teams as well as Company Representatives. The team will not conduct any sourcing and contracting activities but will support the Global and Regional Teams where required.

The Supply Chain Manager will furthermore interact with host communities with an aim towards driving and enabling the Company and Supply Chain’s Inclusive Procurement objectives.

**Job Description**:
To lead the interface between Supply Chain, operations and the communities through strong interface management, prioritization of business and asset requirements and driving Supply Chain Operational Excellence at a BU/asset level.
- Responsible for providing asset specific inputs to global, regional and BU strategies, targets and plans and ensuring overall asset priorities and objectives are translated
- Influence the Supply Chain category strategies to ensure support of successful execution of asset strategies.
- Provide strong Supply Chain leadership at an asset level to the General Manager and Heads of Department.
- Lead and manage the team through provision of supervision, coaching, development and active performance management.
- Collaborate with Asset Leadership to ensure alignment to Supply Chain strategy and influence delivery of the asset strategy (5 year plan).
- Ensure cross collaboration between internal and external stakeholders and act as a single point of contact to resolve complex Supply Chain issues and escalations from the operations.
- Ensure integration of asset requirements into demand planning, forecasting, commercial planning and the procurement pipeline
- Ensure relevant site specifications are included in contractual documentation and manage successful implementation and performance management of contracts at asset level to ensure value in use.
- Provide leadership to Inclusive Procurement and host community initiative implementation through effective screening, validation, risk identification and contractual requirement input.
- Drive ownership of asset Scorecard, Supply Chain Targets and value working capital
- Influence relevant Category sourcing strategies and plans, providing input to commercial and technical contractual requirements and adjudication of supplier bids.
- Accountable for end-to-end Supply Chain operational performance and excellence at an asset level, as well as removing roadblocks which impact delivery and supplier performance.
- Embrace an agile Supply Chain by being adaptive and flexible to accommodate and focus on emerging and changing business priorities.

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**Qualifications**:
Qualification: An undergraduate qualification - Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent

Experience: Proven track record of extensive practical experience in relevant field

Desirable: A postgraduate qualification (Honours/ Masters degree or equivalent) in a relevant discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

Technical Knowledge:

- Strong overall knowledge of Supply Chain Management in a global context (Sourcing, Purchasing, Category management, Physical SC etc)
- Supplier and Contractor Relationship Management
- Inclusive/Local Procurement
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong leadership / management skills,
- Continuous Supply Chain improvement and optimisation
- Sound knowledge of customers and suppliers
- Effective influencing and engagement experience/skills

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