Superintendent Materials Management at AngloGold Ashanti

Education & Qualifications

• Relevant technical or commercial qualification

General Knowledge & Experience

• Minimum 7-10 years’ business experience in supply chain inventory and logistics and demonstrated leadership proficiency.
• Experience in diverse workforce and cultures, cyclical growth within a dynamic mining environment.
• Intimate understanding of the supply chain processes (e.g., source to contract, source to pay, all workflows, logistics, inventory, warehousing and all governance steps).
• Proven inventory management experience and knowledge of the mining landscape
• Demonstrated analytics ability within the SAP System landscape, with specific emphasis on structuring data for improvement initiatives and optimisation. Strong statistical capability coupled with the technical knowledge to develop and create factual story lines.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
• Cross-Functional Awareness and adaptability.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
• Detail-oriented and dependable problem-solving skills.
• Critical thinking.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Project and change management skills.
• Have effective interpersonal skills to successfully sell and implement strategies to senior management and have the ability to operationally manage subordinates.

Role Accountabilities

• Statistically analyse inventory data sets to determine factual story lines and trends, group in manageable buckets and use these buckets for improvements initiatives and programs
• Develop a baseline inventory per site, based on analytics, BOM requirements and the site need requirements.
• Analyse and propose improvements for the current coding and classification parameters within SAP to optimize levels of automation within the SAP replenishment process.
• Develop standards and guidelines for inventory management including stocking strategies, including a set of key performance indicators that will ensure service level optimisation resulting in the least excess and redundant inventory. 
• Interact with site supply chain and engineering functions and understand the end-user requirements that translates into an efficient and effective provision of inventory holding.
• Develop and entrench effective warehousing standards, strategies and operational best practises to ensure proficient receipt, storage, non-conformance handling, audit, issue and staging of stock.
• Identification and segregation of excess and redundant inventory for the purposes allowing the disposal process to commence.
• Develop and entrench effective inventory monitoring and counting practices that will protect inventory from pilferage and loss.
• Develop and entrench workflow systems that will ensure FIFO (First in First Out) practises are maintained including shelf life management.  
• In consultation with the relevant freight forwarding agents, design and maintain best practise inbound and outbound physical networks used to move material and equipment to and from the mines in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Understand and implement (where applicable) regionally consolidated networks and warehousing practises that could result in reduced inventory holding costs and increased customer service levels.   
• Implement, manage and report the inbound freight KPI’s as set out by the business requirements. This includes the GIT (Goods in Transit) account.
• Consult, understand and implement inventory practises that ensure the safe keeping of inventory from weather elements, the risk of hazards such as fire, chemical spills, combustion and deterioration due to cold storage requirements. 
• Entrench effective warehousing design and binning strategies (both inside and yard areas) that will ensure safe operation, clear demarcation and identification, easy access, and the least storage space utilisation. This includes SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) analysis and understanding the cost of carrying each inventory item to ensure it meets the financial objectives of the business.      
• Actively participating and promoting AngloGold Ashanti's Core values.