Purchasing Advisor (3 months Fixed Term Contract) needed at Anglo American

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Job title : Purchasing Advisor (3 months Fixed Term Contract)

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : November 22, 2024

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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
     

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