Specialist: Explosives at AngloGold Ashanti

Education & Qualification

• Minimum BA in Business or related field.

General Knowledge & Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ business experience covering relevant category or experience in a commercial analytical role
• Sourcing Process – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Inventory Management – Intermediate application is required.
• Category Management – Intermediate application is required.
• Cost Reviews and Modeling – Intermediate application is required.
• Spend Management & Analytics – Intermediate application is required.
• Contract Management – Intermediate application is required.
• Supplier Management – Intermediate application is required.
• Stakeholder Management – Intermediate application is required.
• Supplier Negotiations – Basic application is required.
• Problem Solving – Intermediate application is required.
• Advanced Analytics – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Word, PowerPoint, Excel – Intermediate application is required.
• SAP – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Inventory Management – Basic application is required.
• Data-Based Decision Making – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Benchmarking – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Cross-Functional Awareness – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Cultural Competency – Intermediate application is required.
• Innovation – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Project Management – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Business Acumen – Basic to intermediate application is required.
• Logistics – Basic application is required.
• Financial and Accounting Principles – Basic to intermediate application is required.

Role Accountabilities

• Supporting the development and implementation of the Global Category Management Strategy for defined areas of spend.
• Supporting the Category Manager on supplier relationship management and sourcing plans for defined categories.
• Supporting the design and governance of a single company view of supply markets for defined categories.
• Ensuring proper documentation is in place to maintain SOX compliance for contracts and procedures managed for specific categories of strategic spend managed by Global Supply Chain.
• Maintaining effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to assess or improve the quality of the procurement and purchasing process, including increased participation of the in-country supply base where applicable.
• Collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to assess supplier capability and performance.
• Driving up-to-date market analysis and benchmarking.
• Supporting Business Improvement and BUs by providing functional expertise for defined categories of spend.
• Collecting, investigating, and analyzing information as requested by the Category Manager using data from internal and external sources for:
• Should Cost modeling
• Price Discipline
• Solution modeling
• Advanced analytics
• Market Intelligence
• Spend Segmentation

Operational Excellence Process Support

• Advising the Category Manager on supply chain-related risks and opportunities and communicating these to peers in business units and operations.
• Assisting the Category Manager in developing category market and supplier updates to be shared with business leadership quarterly.
• Collaborating across the group and sharing internal and external best practices across all supply chain functions.
• Driving and developing the negotiation strategy for high-value contracts for Explosives category, aligned to market values and cost estimation principles, to unlock value and efficiencies for the category.
• Assisting in the execution of the overall commodity strategy, including supplier opportunity assessments, financial analysis, negotiations, and long-term contract establishment. Using industry trends, explosives cost drivers, global pricing, best practices, benchmarking, equipment life cycle cost analysis.
• Building the internal should-cost model mapped to each site's requirements and market dynamics.
• Structuring the Explosives contracts to unlock performance efficiencies, mitigate risk, and optimize cost per meter.
• Analyzing and developing business cases to enable decision-making.
• Drafting tendering documents and contracts.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Developing and managing Supplier Relationship Management, setting joint objectives and KPIs with suppliers to enable proper contract management routines.
• Utilizing market intelligence and strategic sourcing principles to drive benefits realization for AGA.
• Promoting efficient, effective, and consistent category review and analysis.
• Identifying and analyzing opportunities within the Explosives category.
• Managing the tactical delivery of major contracts and tenders for Explosives category.
• Managing contracts through SAP to ensure compliance and efficient contract management.
• Implement and manage the category portfolio budget, ensuring alignment with expenditures and contributing to budget planning cycles for the category under management.
• Continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of explosives use, focusing on reducing waste, enhancing quality, and maximizing operational performance through data-driven decision-making and process optimization.
• Implement External Spend TCO strategies to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on external spend:
• Manage a standard approach for category management across the group to drive a cost leadership culture.
• Implement buy-better and spend-better strategies to manage spend, scope future requirements, and understand the external market.

Utilize a structured Category Management Playbook:

• Manage a four-stage category approach: Review, Strategize, Execute, and Track.
• Consolidate internal fact base and external market intelligence to identify TCO opportunities.
• Develop implementation roadmaps and transition initiatives to the Full Potential Hub.
• Track benefits and improvements in key metrics through a monthly review process.

Execute Full Asset Potential Refresh:

• Manage site-by-site improvement projects across LOM strategy, mining, processing, and external spend.
• Implement a two-year rolling program for site-level refreshes, with findings fed back to global and regional category management.

Drive Supplier Relationship Management:

• Set joint objectives and KPIs with suppliers to enable proper contract management routines.
• Establish appropriate cadences for performance monitoring based on the criticality of the operation and strategic nature of agreements.
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities through jointly developed projects with suppliers.

Define and Track Value:

• Manage value tracking in five key sources: Direct spend (Opex), Capital Spend, Working Capital, TCO Impacts, and Cost Avoidance.
• Set annual targets based on category strategy reviews, with value estimates reported with confidence intervals from RS0 to RS4.

Enable Reporting:

• Implement Savings/Value Delivery and Price/Volume Variance reports to set leading and lagging indicators for value delivery and strategic focus.
• Leverage the Full Potential Hub for consistent reporting, transparency, and active management of initiatives.