Purchasing Advisor at Anglo American

Job Description:

Please note that is a 6-month fixed term contract role. 

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