Category Procurement Specialist - Processing at Anglo American

Job Description:

We are currently looking to appoint a Category Procurement Specialist – Processing to take accountability for managing a specific set of categories, in support of the broader portfolio strategy and business ambition that delivers improved business performance through commercial agreements, enables innovation, supplier partnering and internal stakeholder collaboration.

Key accountabilities:

• Responsible for developing relevant category strategies, support input to business cases, plans to ensure security of supply, the advancement of supplier partnering that drives innovation and value, compile and execute sourcing events, support negotiations, establish and execute contracts. 
• Embrace an agile Supply Chain by being adaptive and flexible to accommodate and focus on emerging and changing business priorities  
• Project management of key initiatives 
• Support the development of the broader category portfolio strategy, value creation plans and business cases by providing relevant data, analysis, opportunity assessments and market intelligence
• Accountable for the contract over its life cycle and ensure contract administration and performance management activities are executed timely and with quality  
•  Ensure the effective and efficient execution of contracts management activities for allocated portfolio (including the loading of finalized contracts onto the system to enable transactions) 

Qualifications:

• Degree qualified or equivalent with strong category procurement experience in Processing (raw materials, chemicals, plant equipment) gained in a mining/ construction / heavy industry

Technical Skills

• Good technical knowledge across the Supply Chain value chain 
• Ability to integrate Commercial, physical supply chain, Supplier Management & Purchasing sub disciplines 
• Safety & Sustainability as it relates to Supply Chain & Inclusive Procurement  
• Good commercial, negotiation and deal-making, business case development, investment appraisal  
• Category Management, sourcing & contracting with Total Cost Ownership approach 
•  Supplier Relationship Management 
•  Business Planning, Business Case development  
• Working knowledge of regional and local Inclusive Procurement requirements

Closing Date: 21st, July 2022