Closing Date: 21 March 2023
Org Structure No: 80033442
OME: Energy Operations
Business Unit: Energy Ops - Procurement
City / Town: Secunda
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
- 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 Sasols 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.
- University Bachelors Degree (Engineering, Mining Engineering, Commercial or Supply Chain)
- Post Graduate Honours or Masters Degree required
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.
Sasol is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Inspired by our Purpose of Innovating for a better world, Sasol acknowledges that diversity is intrinsic to the fabric of our organisation and is the key to our growth and success. Sasol is committed to the full inclusion of all suitably qualified individuals. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and people with disabilities according to Sasols Employment Equity Plan. This includes reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
NB:
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