Repairs Advisor

Company Description
- Anglo American’s purpose is to reimagine mining to improve people’s lives and is committed to creating a Living Mine that brings positive value to the people and environment where we operate.

Supply Chain is positioning itself for the future, by becoming more purpose-driven in aid of realising the Anglo American purpose, and driving to be more agile and resilient. Central to being more purpose-driven is delivering significantly more positive impact within our host communities, acting as supplier interface to provide velocity to our innovation, technical & sustainability change programme, that includes improved safety performance and the embedment of circular economy principles, as well as overall delivery of significantly more sustainable value. To build a more agile and resilient Supply Chain the commoditized execution and digitalisation of processes is a key focus whilst driving operational excellence.

The commercial team is responsible for the end
- to
- end management of all procurement activities within the South African region, including Regional Category Management, Sourcing & Contracts, Project Procurement and Purchasing. The team works with regional business and Supply Chain stakeholders to implement and manage performance of contracts and suppliers, grow the host community supply base and ensure effective supply of goods and services required for operations.

The purchasing team is responsible for the allocation of Source-of-Supply to purchasing requests, using a combination of automation and manual methods; management of the end-to-end transactional execution of Purchase Orders, driving for on time delivery of goods and service; delivering ongoing improvement in Purchasing to maximize first time right orders, improving user experience, reduce cycle time while maintaining appropriate risk and compliance in the end-to-end process.

**Job Description**:

- The purpose of this role is to provide support with the repairs activities to ensure that the on
- or off
- site repairs of equipment are completed in a timely and cost effective way, meeting agreed technical requirements and service levels, and providing implementation support to the team to ensure that all risk and compliance measures are adhered to.

**Delivery & Performance**
General
- Adhere to the relevant Supply Chain strategy and ensure that critical tasks, performance targets, plans and budgets are adhered to with due consideration of risk identification
- Embrace an agile Supply Chain by being adaptive and flexible to accommodate and focus on emerging and changing business priorities

Supply Chain Strategy, Critical Tasks, Targets
- Manage the estimation instructions that are provided to supplier
- Ensure that approved Repair estimates are converted to Repair orders in the transactional purchasing system
- Track and report on purchasing performance levels for Repairs procurement activities and identify relevant improvement opportunities.
- Monitor the risk and compliance measures implemented by the team within the purchasing area of focus
- Track and report on supplier performance and recommend changes to the list of repairers per equipment type

Purchasing Excellence & Automation
- Identify improvements in the execution of repairs processes and implement accordingly
- Recommend changes to purchasing channel usage in order to support ongoing Repairs

Stakeholder Engagement
- Maintain effective working relationships with suppliers, and resolve issues where required
- Provide feedback where deliveries with due dates do not meet operational requirements
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities
- Ensure alignment to agreed supplier selection guidelines

Sustainability & Social
- Ensure Sourcing rules applied within Purchasing are aligned with Anglo American Sustainability and Social requirements
- Support the Anglo American sustainable value creation strategies, initiatives and associated business cases, that advance Anglo American technical, community, sustainability, and financial ambitions

Inclusive Procurement
- Drive a culture of community development and inclusive procurement with stakeholders that are aligned to the global and regional Inclusive Procurement strategies
- Support the team to identify supplier development needs and opportunities, and provide input into the development of solutions

**Qualifications
- Qualifications**:

- An undergraduate qualification - Bachelor degree level or equivalent, in mechanical or electrical engineering. Alternatively relevant tertiary qualification.

**Experience**:

- Practical experience in relevant field, as repair center foreman, repair analyst, or proven track record of at least 3 to 5 years of practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

**Desirable**:

- Intermediate English

**Technical Knowledge**:

- Transactional Purchasing Execution
- SAP Purchasing
- Data analysis and reporting
- Continuous improvement methodology

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