Head Supply Chain Mining at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Delivers an effective and efficient Supply Chain Business partnering service to Mining, including: Demand planning and forecasting for the short, medium and long term, ensuring the quality of the demand signal emanating from the mines s and proactively engaging end users to improve quality over time.
• Resolution of escalations arising from supply chain operations within the mines and initiating continuous improvement where trends are identified. Contract addition and business optimisation (Contract life cycle management).
• To facilitate the ability of suppliers to deliver a more effective service to Sasol, which includes creating a collaborative, partnering relationship with suppliers in order to drive additional value for Sasol and meet local spend targets.
• Consolidation of functional inputs received from SC managers into supply chain business intelligence.
• Oversight of Supply Chain execution for effectiveness and compliance to policies, procedures and standards.
• Develop and implement suitable procurement process for projects in Mining, aligned to standards, policies and governance.
• Closely manage interface with Business Services function to ensure the standard and timely nature of delivery of all transaction supply chain services.
• Execution of capital project procurement for all mining projects Tier 1 to Tier 5.
• Oversee compliance with procurement requirements in compliance with the Mining Charter and Local Economic Development requirements

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Takes accountability for the execution and optimization of all related Supply Chain activities executed within Mining.
• Identify, monitor and improve Supply Chain performance measures.
• Responsible for demand accuracy and quality by aggregating and analyzing demand, challenge and influencing mines where required.
• To plan and coordinate the fulfilment of customer needs along the key business processes by managing the material, services, information and financial flows.
• Enhancing supply chain performance within the mines by proactively engaging with stakeholders on multiple levels (category management, operations support etc).
• Educate and influence the end users to increase quality of demand signal, change spend patterns and support increased automation.
• Ensuring compliance with Supply Chain governance (policies, procedures, processes and standards).
• Define formal supplier development strategies and processes and lead and/or oversee supplier development activities for selected local suppliers.
• Establish proper two-way flow of communication to suppliers, as well as potential suppliers, to maintain Sasol’s reputation in the market.
• Functionally oversee and lead the agreement between business and suppliers on performance standards and measures; the integrated assessment of selected suppliers against the established criteria and the process for determining the root cause of supplier non-performance.
• Understand the legislative environment and lead compliance practices for supplier management (e.g. RSA BBBEE codes, Mining Charter).
• Identify and propose mitigations for risks arising from supplier management.
• Monitoring, measuring and responding to supply chain key performance indicators.
• Setting the supply chain targets and continuously monitoring compliance.
• Conducting root cause analysis and coordinating initiatives to target systemic, pervasive and high priority issues.
• Embedding specialist supply chain advice and support.
• Develop and implement suitable procurement process for projects within the region, aligned to standards, policies and governance.
• Execution of capital project procurement for all mining projects Tier 1 to Tier 5.
• Oversee compliance with procurement requirements in compliance with the Mining Charter and Local Economic Development requirements.

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree (Engineering, Mining Engineering, Commercial or Supply Chain)
• Post Graduate Honours or Masters Degree required

Min Experience

• 15+ relevant years - Strong commercial and supply chain background required.

Certification & Professional Membership

None

Competencies

• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation and sustainability.
• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Conflict Management: Ability to manage conflict, disharmony and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Integration: The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.
• Partnering: The development and perpetuation of successful and mutually-beneficial relationships where customers and others become business partners with common goals, positive attitudes, cooperative work styles, open communications and team spirit.
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Relationship Management: The conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success. At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management such as CEO [Chief Executive Officer], CIO [Chief Information Officer], and CFO [Chief Financial Officer].
• Strategy: The direction and scope of an organization or subject (e.g., information technology, transportation, finance, marketing, product) over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations.