Manager, Supply Risk at De Beers Group

Job Description:
Purpose:

• The purpose of this role is to ensure global risk management across the end-to-end supply value chain, including recognising and assessing any potential exposure for fraud, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to establish appropriate mitigations to ensure the ethics and integrity of our Supply Chain.

Key Responsibilities:

Safety, Health & Environment

• Identify ways to lead and support specific safety, health & sustainability opportunities and risks and ensure that activities support all Safety, Health & Environmental requirements.
• Ensure that all activities with an operational impact do not compromise safety at any of our sites, obtaining guidance from a safety/ contractor performance management SME where appropriate.
• Ensure compliance with relevant policies and standards & procedures to enable achievement of gold-standard contractor safety performance.

Delivery & Performance

• Provide input into the risk reduction strategy, incorporating specific country/ business expectations and requirements.
• Partner with global and country supply chain teams to identify supply risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Assist with escalation requests from global category management as well as P&D supply chain.
• Lead management routines and/ or Community of Practice, between country commercial teams, global category management and P&D supply chain to share learnings and best practices.
• Define and lead training and education programmes for teams in group and country to better understand risk across the end-to-end supply chain and mitigate accordingly.
• Consistent scanning of the global environment and countries where we operate to identify emerging risks and monitor prevailing supply risks, providing insight into the potential threat/ opportunity to Anglo American.
• Partner with relevant stakeholders to define and, where relevant, implement risk mitigation strategies.

Risk reduction

• Lead planning and facilitation of workshops with key stakeholders including suppliers and business partners.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify and address control gaps/ vulnerabilities in the supply value chain which expose the business to fraud and lead the development of solutions to remedy,
• Lead the development of analytics models which provide effective scanning of our internal and external environments to detect risks
• Scan the broader environment to identify approaches and opportunities to incorporate into Anglo American risk reduction portfolio of work.
• Enable visibility to leadership for all risk activities and status thereof.
• Partner with third parties to develop innovative mechanisms including the use of AI, machine learning and digital twins to detect and prevent fraud
• Provide leadership for group and country teams, in partnership with COE, to develop solutions (including digital. AI) which address and/ or mitigate against risk

Planning

• Partner with global and country commercial teams to ensure that sourcing strategies incorporate risk expectations.
• Provide global and country commercial teams with insights into global supply risks and provide guidance on the potential impact at a country level, scenario modelling and risk mitigation strategies as input into decision making through the regular cadence of planning routines.
• Provide input into the process of frontloading, identification and sizing of activities associated with risk.

Sustainability & Social

• Ensure risk reduction activities are consistent with sustainable and social policies, standards and expectations.
• Provide guidance and ensure training is available to global and country commercial teams with the capturing process of risk activities in Zycus
• Collaborate with the Commercial Planning Specialist for Supply Chain to ensure risk benefits are appropriately captured in value delivery.

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 drive risk
• Establish a culture and capabilities for innovative and proactive risk reduction

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure personal and team compliance to internal Anglo American and Supply Chain Governance requirements including Supply Chain policies, standards and procedures.
• Ensure personal and team compliance to applicable legislative and internal finance/ legal requirements pertaining to all activities associated with risk activities

Qualifications:

• ​​Undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree / equivalent) in the relevant discipline.
• A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in the relevant discipline.

Experience

• 10 years end to end supply chain experience
• 3 -5 years in risk management

Technical Skills

• Commercial background with experience in sourcing, contracting, contract negotiations and supplier management
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Project management
• End-to-end Supply value chain understanding
• Good understanding of mining and markets associated with our key categories
• Operational experience beneficial

Closing Date:

• 11 June, 2025