Supply Chain Analyst - North West at Tharisa

Role Context

• Provide input into required changes in resources (financial or non-financial) to enable the achievement of team and/or own objectives.
• Determine resource needs of the team and/or own area of work to achieve business outcomes.
• Request and allocate required assets and/or resources for the fulfilment of work objectives to guarantee quality outputs.
• Monitor the use of assets and resources within the team and own area of responsibility, to ensure assets and resources are consistently and appropriately utilised and managed.
• Provide staff with day-to-day direction and tasks aligned with Departmental procedures, to enable the usage of less resources more efficiently.
• Communicate with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of speciality. Liaise across the relevant Departments by engaging with the appropriate stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders remain abreast of Departmental objectives, any potential derailers are appropriately managed and duplication of work is avoided.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Manage and control a database of suppliers by coordinating supplier, pricing, tender and spend analysis ensuring the most appropriate suppliers with the most competitive pricing and best alignment to Tharisa Minerals values are utilised and maintained.
• Manage, monitor, and control the compliance processes and procedures around the SC and Procurements materials resourcing practices within Tharisa Minerals, instilling a culture of compliance and accuracy.
• Monitor and conduct random spot checks on the various processes and inventory stores limits across TM ensuring adherence to the established compliance regulations, stipulated legislation and processes within TM to minimise instances of non-compliance and operational downtime (due to limited stores).
• Conduct regular audits of existing vendors by scrutinising their adherence to their service level agreements (SLA’s) and contracts mitigating any unnecessary risk as well as initiating the contract cancellation process for vendors that are non-compliant.
• Monitor and supervise direct reports by allocating work and establishing key performance indicators for the team and tracking their achievement against the established metrics.
• Coach and mentor individuals in the team by providing guidance on organisational best practice as well as understand individual objectives and align them with that of the organisation’s objectives for mutual growth.
• Manage and drive the Materials Requestion Process (MRP) by establishing good governance and compliance processes within the Supply Chain function, for the organisation, ultimately to ensure the best products are procured and that the inventory stores are adequately stocked to drive continuous operations.
• Oversee the coordination of resource and stock purchasing by implementing stock limit indicators across the various inventory stores on the mine to drive proactive and appropriate purchasing of resources for continuous operations on the mine.
• Manage and negotiate with third party contractors, suppliers and vendors ensuring that optimal products and materials are being acquired whilst minimising operational spend.
• Collaborate with the key stakeholders on the mine in order to understand their operating requirements and spend, identifying product and quantity requirements and coordinate the ordering and delivery thereof.
• Monitor the operational year on year spend of the various mining operations by analysing their financial data in order to identify potential areas for cost reduction and changes in suppliers.
• Identify Supply Chain process inefficiencies and develop recommendations for changes by scrutinising current processes and practices in order to optimise the ways of work within the department.
• Act as the custodian of the approved supplier’s database striving to drive adherence and compliance across the organisation ensuring that only approved suppliers are utilised.
• Manage the tender process by establishing best practice within the organisation and managing expectations with the various internal stakeholders to bring about an optimal outcome for both the internal stakeholder and the external vendors.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Matric /Grade 12 (NQF4)
• Diploma (NQF6) in Supply Chain/Logistics or Business Administration
• Certificate in Purchasing or Materials Management (advantageous)

Job specific experience:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience in the Supply Chain function in the mining environment.