Team Lead - Category Management-Underground

As Part of Our Team, You Will:

•Administer a team of professionals that provide regional, site categories/contracts strategy development and execution.
•Execute regional contracts activities and spend.
•Maintain regional supplier relationships.
•Oversee the administration of regional contracts through a team of Contract Officers.
•Assign sub category ownership to Contract officers.
•Ensure all contractors are aware of mine safety standards and monitor their adherence.

Customer Relations
•Establish relationships with internal and external customers as technical expert related to issues for assigned categories.
•Identify, develop and foster strategic customer and supplier relationships
•Conduct internal customer requirement analysis to understand customers’ procurement needs and requirements
•Facilitating successful adoption of the Supplier Risk Management (SRiM) program with selected strategic vendors, including but not limited to tracking suppliers’ prequalification, onboarding, management plans, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) spend management, and any other metrics specific to the vendor performance.

Interface into Business Planning & Technical Services
•Manage relevant commodity, service and product information necessary to recommend regional and local supply chain solutions; may liaise with external third party providers to provide business intelligence and build reports.
•Develop, review, and analyze data for management reports.
•Support the collation and finalizing the commodity/services pricing for Business planning purposes.

People Management
•Lead the team of Contract Administrators in executing the category strategy.
•Identify and capture new enterprise spend areas to add value and drive cost savings.
•Have direct people management responsibility for the specific category.
•Practice appropriate leadership and management disciplines with direct and indirect reports to achieve business goals.
•Support and contribute to team building events and team dynamics through personally displaying leadership and team attributes.
•Demonstrate and coach “team values” to all employees to foster a teaming culture.

Regional Category Management
•Lead the development and implementation of category procurement strategies for assigned categories regionally.
•Coordinate with the technical services and project teams in the region and with suppliers to evaluate assigned categories commercially and technically for all projects and operations scopes in the region.
•Responsible for awareness and adherence to local content law and existing local community relationships in the region as they relate to sourcing and procurement activities.
•Responsible for development new contracts with suppliers and coordinating legal reviews; provides commercial recommendations for existing and new  contracts in accordance to Corporate and Regional guidelines.
•Maintain awareness of market trends, conditions and changing technologies to produce market intelligence reports to the business.
•Ensure that your managed category is in compliance with all Newmont policies and procedures (including Supply Chain Management, Ethics, Health, Safety,  Environmental and Sustainability).

Sourcing and Procurement Strategy
•Ensure stage 1 – 5 stage gate process requirements and provides inputs and deliverables to get to operational readiness.
•Make the overall corporation more effective and efficient, through an understanding of local cultural norms, political and social issues.
•Ensure the execution of single-site or multi-site strategic sourcing initiatives as per the category plan.
•Provide strategic support including commercial negotiation, execution, implementation and administration for contracts relating to the assigned categories.
•Support the development and implementation of category procurement strategies for assigned categories for Newmont operations and projects.

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
•Ultimately responsible for identification, design, deliver and tracking of cost savings opportunities annually.
•Provides technical assistance and project management to the projects and sites related to operational issues.
•Develops and manages technical documents, business case documents, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models, should cost and price discipline models for assigned categories as required.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations): 
•Bachelor’s degree in Building Technology, and Civil Engineering (are highly recommended and preferred), Business Administration, Business Law, Supply Chain and Procurement, or related field required; Additional C.P.M. or C.P.S.M. or CIPS will be an added advantage. 

Experience:
•Seven (7) of directly related contract/procurement experience or equivalent combination of training and experience are necessary Mining experience preferred.
•Highly effective interpersonal skills necessary to obtain continued support and influence internal clients including executives.
•Strong negotiation, quantitative and presentation skills.

Additional Knowledge:
•Strong knowledge of SAP or equivalent enterprise level software packages is necessary.
•Broad business knowledge and focus, ability to recognize issues, problems and capitalize on opportunities.
•Expertise in sourcing and procurement regulations, supplier regulatory requirements, and all national and local requirements for mine and regional office locations. 
•Extensive experience in SC in international mining environments or other related sectors including leadership experience in sourcing management. 
•Extensive experience in sourcing and writing procurement contracts.
•Demonstrated successes in attracting and retaining a high-performing team, creating a teamwork environment built on coaching, development and accountability for achieving results.
•Ability to work collaboratively with technical experts, practitioners and vendors.
•Ability to foresee market trends and stay ahead of the competition.
•Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.

Technical Skills:
•Business acumen and commercial management skills related to sourcing and procurement regulations.
•Lifecycle Procurement and Contract Management Practitioner
•Contract structure, legalities, and contract management for all products and services 
•Supplier quality systems and evaluation criteria.
•Contract Management and eProcurement systems.
•Conflict and change management skills.
•Financial analysis and management skills.
•Performance-driven management skills.
•Strategic management, leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.
•Strategic relationship management skills.
•Strategic collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills.
•Supplier Risk Management Practitioner.

Social Process Skills:
Self-awareness:
•Understand own behaviours and is aware of the impact on others.
•Adapt their own behaviour where necessary in order to get a productive outcome for the wider team.

Team process:
•Able to be an effective team member by listening, clarifying tasks, receiving, and providing feedback.
•Able to be an effective team leader (where applicable) by establishing and maintaining a positive and productive work environment through listening, dealing with different points of view, giving, and receiving feedback.

Collaboration:
•Builds positive working relationships with a diverse range of people across disciplines.

Your Work Environment:

•The location for this position is at our Ahafo South mine site.

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!