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Exxaro is one of the largest South African-based diversified resources groups. It is listed on the JSE Limited where it is a constituent of the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) index. The group’s current business interests span South Africa, Botswana, Republic of the Congo and Australia. At present, Exxaro produces over 39 million tonnes of coal p...
PURPOSE: To provide technical support with regards to development and execution of commodity strategy and formulate and execute portfolio specific commodity strategies aimed at reducing total cost of ownership of commodities, products and services. Engage and support business unit technical management in respect of initiatives driving throughput and plant or equipment reliability. Act as supply chain management technical expert representative to business unit.
MAJOR CHALLENGES: Providing commodity management service to multiple business unit. Improve in terms of cost-effectiveness, innovation and productivity. Challenge end-users on specifications and application issues and facilitate improvement projects (money teams) with cross- functional resources.Minimum RequirementsQUALIFICATIONS:
B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
EXPERIENCE:
- 6-8 years Relevant supply chain or engineering related experience in mining processes and mining equipment with a minimum of 3 years project portfolio management experience
- Importance: Essential/Minimum
- Involvement: Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Essential/Minimum)Duties & ResponsibilitiesThe incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:
Best Practice and Knowledge Management
- Identify and facilitate improvement initiatives leading to cost saving opportunities whilst keeping abreast of new developments within commodity portfolio
- Liaise with other departments toward evaluating new technologies to improve process capabilities, product quality and throughput requirements
- Review effectiveness of strategies and identify improvement opportunities
Commodity Management
- Provide technical inputs to end users and commercial team members to ensure fit for purpose contracts
- Assist with resolving technical contractual matters and ensure contracts support Commodity strategy
- Conduct Negotiate and manage commodity portfolio specific agreements for designated commodities
- Conduct supplier analysis
- Execute Portfolio Target Setting
- Review commodity and lifecycle trends
- Identify Potential Technical Opportunities for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction and throughput improvement
Compliance, Governance and Assurance
- Assist in the implementation of portfolio targets in alignment with legislation and charters (e.g. Mining Charter, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), etc)
- Ensure suppliers comply with relevant Group policies
Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management
- Implement SRM initiatives with key suppliers
- Conduct technical assessments of supplier abilities
- Provide strategic input into managing key commodity contracts
- Act as an interface between suppliers and end-users
- Manage internal and external relations incl. interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure business needs are met
- Obtain sign-off for commodity strategies within area of responsibility
- Provide relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders
Functional Excellence
- Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
- Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy
- Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge
- Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives
Functional Management
- Financial management: Assist in managing and reducing costs of the sub functions
- Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead functional improvement and change. Create culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function
- Engagement/communication: Engage with managers, operations and cross- functionally with peers
- Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
Internal Business Processes
- Establish, facilitate and lead cross functional money teams to focus on value creation initiatives and to identify and implement improvement initiatives aimed at overall sustainable TCO reduction
- Ensure reliable market intelligence to identify and develop supply strategies and budget inputs to ensure secured supply of critical/ strategic commodities within portfolio
- Comply with preferential procurement targets
- Develop and implement measures and actions to ensure sustainability of supplier performance
- Provide support to Commercial and Contract Specialist teams for on time completion and sign-off of technical scope of work
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